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4 The Newi-Revicw, Roseburg,
FIGHT SHAPING UP
By Charles V. Stanton
. A most interesting activity, beinjr reported bit by bit
in current news, is the "come-back" fight of American
railroads.
Newspapers and magazines are beginning to put to
gether apparently isolated incidents, fitting them into a
pattern which indicates that our various raiiroati compan.
ica are seeking to find a more important spot in the coun.
try's transportation system after many years of only mi'
nor change.
This new "lifting" process is quite apparent when con.
solidutions. stock purchases, tariff changes, efforts to elim.
inate alleged featherbedding, competition with truck lines,
reduction of passenger service, and other such activities
are fitted into a pattern.
One activity due to arouse much local interest, per
haps participation, is the fight between the Southern Pa
cific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe to gain control
of Western Pacific. Bolh rail lines are making vigorous
efforts to take over the Western Pacific. Control means
much to this particular area which, very probably, would
find considerable benefit by a Southern Pacific victory.
The fight for control of Western Pacific is only one
small part of the overall program to improve the status of
railroads. Having slipped far down the economic ladder,
railroads now are reassessing their position. Working both
in cooperation and in competition they are apparently striv
ing to again become "lop dog in the field of transporlatign.
Picture Changed
In the early days of our national history before rail
roads our centers of population hugged waterways. A
few miles from rivers and canals our country was wilder
ness. Railroads changed that picture. Centers of popula
tion, land development, industry, followed rail lines. But
the transportation system underwent another change when
trucks and highways were developed. Communities no
longer were dependent upon either water or rails. The
system was further advanced by the airplane, a means of
rapid transport.
Railroads, however, seemed content to drift, They
ranted against use of highways by trucks They boosted
rates, until they priced themselves out of business. They
sought government subsidy. They kicked against regula
tion. ,
Tn very late years they appear to have decided to get
tough.
One of the things to which I have objected most vigor
ously has been the program to kill off local passenger serv
ice. Passenger trains aren't profitable. Railroad after
railroad has been discontinuing local service. Many oper
ations were killed off just as the "Friendly" Southern Pa
cific killed off passenger service in southern Oregon with
its Nfghlcrawler."
Railroads have eliminated many of their branch lines.
"Railroads are too big," one official observed. They now
appear to be seeking the job of handling heavy transpor
tation, eliminating unprofitable or low-profit operations, re
ducing what they charge is costly featherbedding, at the
same time lowering rates they built up so high that they
priced themselves out of business.
Control Fight On
One of the factors toward self-improvement is to be
seen in the current battle between two big lines for con
trol of Western Pacific. Western Pacific approximately
parallels Southern Pacific Lines between Sacramento and
Salt Lake. The S.P. claims it could make substantial de
creases in costs, could speed up its operations and could
best serve the public by controlling the parallel line.
. It would, it declares, maintain all interchange points,
gateway routes, competition (even with itself) and in gen
eral continue all existing services. Savings made by cut
ting distances through use of the two lines, would be passed
on to customers, it is declared. They would be an import
ant factor to Northwest Shippers served by the Southern
Pacific'.
While Western Pacific lines parallel the Southern Pa
cific tracks, control by the Sante Fe would only "extend
its influence into territory already adequately served, with
no compensating benefit to shippers, communities or the
general public," an S.P. statement contends.
Anyway, the fight will be an interesting one to watch.
Hal Boyle
Scientific Weather Control
May Be A Lotus Nightmare
NEW YORK (AP)-Science now
holds out the hope that man
eventually will be able to control
the weather.
This possibility, on the face of
il, sounds like a great boon. But
is it?
Do wo really wonl a push-button
ciimnm as we mini mum ui u
DU.h-biit!on world?
There is no doubt that the
achievement of automatic weath
er by man would offer many ad
vantages. ,
It would enable him to grow
vastly lamer crops, thus averting
for a longer timo the crisis of
worldwide nunger Doing orougnt
on by over-population.
It would help reduce his cost
of living, lie would need less
, clothing, less fuel for heating pur
poses at least in his home. ' lie
would spend less for cold cures
and cough drops.
II would enable him to reduce
the rigors of bolh heat in sum
mer and cold in winter, and per
haps give the whole world the
year-round climate of a balmy
South Sea island.
Doesn't it all sound wonderful?
Hut the question remains would
il artualfy be so wonderful, as
suming an unbridled science
might manage vlo achieve these
miracles?
We already have done much to
ameliorate the extremes of bad
weather. We have air-conditioned
houses, cars,, thealrrs, offices,
factories and bowling alleys to
protect us from extreme high
temperatures in July and August.
Ore. Tues., Nov. 22, 1960
We have marvelous heating
systems to warm our autos, our
homes and our places of public
v.ork and assembly in winter.
And millions now have the cash
lo lice south for a vacation week
or two in January or February.
It i nn thin., ,n -j:t:
t ... v.. ,,.iA ,u nil -luuumuil
i home. It is quite another thing
! 10 ?eek to air-condilion the world
...iivhu ivxniuca as a cnore ot
Cod or nature.
Are we wis. enough vet i to
make our own weather? Do we
know cnouch yet about ourselves
to even pick the weather which
would be best for us?
Many have dreamed of an earth
of flowering plenty bathed for
ever in a mild and beneficent
sunshine. But is a satin security
such as this the real answer to
our life s true needs?
It could turn out to be a lotus
nightmare, the plethora of a pop
pied promise.
The rhylhm of the changing
seasons, some have held, is re
sponsible for the vigor of people
who dwell in a temperate clime.
To do our best and feel our best
we need an icicle lime as well
as a time of sunshine.
Workman Suffocated
CAMAS. Wash. (AP) A work
man fell into a hopper filled with
powdered sulphur at tlie Crown
Zcllerbach Paper Co. plant here
Monday and aofforated.
The company identified him as
Nickilous A. .Mueller. 49. Wash.
ougal.
In The Day's News
By FRANK
What to talk about today? i
There's Castro. There's the situ
ation in Africa. There are the Big
Shot Communists, who are mess
ing things up generally for every
body. There'! politics. There's the
segregation problem. There's tax
es. There'! the problem, already
becoming acute, of what to get
Aunt flattie for Christmas.
Let's skip it all today.
Up in Eugene, the I.ane county
district attorney has just dismissed
a suit charging a bookseller with
selling obscene materials. The
Kegi8ler-Guard, one of Oregon's
better newspapers, thinks the D.A.
is a PRACTICAL, man, that in dis
missing the suit he did the only
thing he could do. It says:
"One of the key facts in caus
ing Mr. Frye (the Lane county
D.A.) to dismiss the case was
the necessity, under fiat of the su
preme court, to show that the book
seller KNEW the book was obscene
before he sold it. That is hard to
do."
Hard to do?
With high regard for the R-G,
I wonder.
A hrmlfcnllor rf fniii-ci .nnlrl
sell an occasional off-color book in-1'?
nocently. But a TRULY OBSCENE
book that's another story. lAmong
other things, the attention of the
bookseller would be called to the
book in question by the DEMAND
for it. Not only by the NUMBER
of people who came to his place
to buy it, but by the KIND of peo
ple. If a book sold abnormally heav
ily, to a certain kind of people, he
would naturally wonder why. His
next step would be to read the
book.-
Question:
What is OBSCENE?
What To Call Present Business
State Still Divides The Experts
NEW YORK (AP)-What to call
the present slate of business is
still dividing the experts even
with election considerations out of
the way. And so is setting the
date for a change in whatever the
condition is called.
An economy with as many per
sons out of worK can t De given
a clean bill of health. Nor can an
economy where emergency steps
are being taken to shore up the
value of the U.S. dollar in the
eyes of the world.
But while many call the present
stale a recession, others insist its
just a mUd inventory adjustment,
and some deny u s anyuung more
than a breather ensuring a further
advance at some future time.
The stock market has been play
ing it cagey. It has neither soared
convincingly in expectation of a
quick and impressive upswing in
husiness, nor has it slumped
badly of late in anticipation of a
real slide into hard times.
The figures available to busi
ness economists just haven't
pointed decisively in either di
rectiona strong rebound or a
growing slump.
The latest over-all figures, those
of the Commerce Department on
the dollar value of all goods and
services produced gross national
product show the first nine
months of me year averaging
$503.5 billion at an annual rate.
Allowing for price Increase, the
rise in output over tne same
period last year comes to 3 per
cent.
The gross national product
reached a record $505 billion rate
in the April-June quarter but
slipped back in the summer
months. rersonai consumption
spending also dipped a bit in the
third quarter. Business inventor
ies were about the same.
Economists think the final three
months of 1060 will be at roughly
the same pace.
Variations on setting the date
for an about face in the over-all
economy are almost as wide.
The Cartoonist Says:
"We Said It'd Be Close"
JENKINS S
Well. Mr. Webster (our author
ity on words) defines OBSCENE as
"foul; disgusting; offensive to chas
tity or to modesty; lewd."
A bookseller who couldn't apply
that definition and by means of it
spot an OBSCENE book wouldn't
be much of a bookseller.
That brings up aomething else.
Let's put it this way:
OBSCENE books can't be half as
obscene. . .and dirty. . .and filthy
. . .and nauseating., .as the PEO
PLE who buy them and read them.
Somehow, I can't work up much
enthusiasm for BOOK BURNING
laws. I'm aware, of course, that
1 must be in the wrong. Bad things
are bad things, and must be got
rid of, if possible. And I'm not
about to propose a new law.
But
1 can't get away from the feel
ing that the READER of obscene
literature should be punished more
severely than the SELLER of ob
scene literature. That, I think, is a
LOGICAL feeling for if there were
no readers and no BUYERS of
obscene literature no obscene liter
ature would be offered for sale. It
a,n ancient rule that merchants
don't deal in commodities for which
there is NO DEMAND,
The ideal way to punish the
ncftLir.it oi ODscene iiierauire upon political goals,
isn't necessarily to throw him inl The Russian8 now say they ex
the clink. A belter way would be pcct to ,uUiu their current seven
to OSTRACIZE him. . .to pass vear plan a year ahead of ached
him by on the street with a look of uie fn 1964. Tneir newest pub-
disdain. ...to let him know in all the
ways by which it is possible to con
vey such knowledge that he isn't
tit to associate wan decern people
That system would more effective
in banishing obscene literature
than ail the Taws that could be put
into the books.
Those who hold that the major
culprit has been the fall off in
business spending for inventory
down some $11.4 miiion since tne
first three months of 1960 say
this can't go on much longer.
Therefore, sometime in the first
half of 1961 business ordering of
materials and finished products--
win pick- up. I lie economy then
should be on the upgrade again
by next summer. ,
Those who call consumer hesi
tancy to splurge the chief worry
of business just now hold even if
they can t prove it that this is
sure to disappear in coming
months.
High Court To Rule
On Vote Zoning
' WASHINGTON (AP) The Su
preme Court today agreed to rule
on efforts by a group of Tennessee
voters to compel a reapportioning
of state legislative districts. The
case would have wide repercus
sions in other states.
The Tennessee group's appeal
was supported by the National
Institute of Municipal Law Of
ficers, which said redistricting
was needed in many slates be
cause of heavy population shifts
from rural areas to cities.
The court was told that rural
voters, while outnumbered by city
voters, control state legislatures
because apportionments made
years ago are left unchanged.
An institute brief-said, for ex
ample, that in New York City
eight million people elect only 90
mcihbers of the Assembly while
seven million "upstatcrs ' have
118 representatives.
In 1946 case from Illinois, the
Supreme Court by 4 3 vote decided
not to intervene in reapportion
ment battles. A majority opinion
by Justice Frankfurter at that
time stated, "courts ought not to
enter this political thicket."
4 K o,.
-Tr' "Vw Ot. iLL.V-:
William L. Ryan
Russia's Economic Rise
Spells Trouble For U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet af-, Soviet economic power already
fairs experts conjure up a fright- is a potent weapon of politics in
ening picture of the use the Kremlin foreign policy, backed
Kremlin might make of tne
U.S.S.R.'s burgeoning economic
strength.
From one standpoint, it matters
little when or whether the Rus
sians make good their boast of
overtaking United States produc
tion. The key word is trouble, and
there is plenty of trouble in store
for the United States in any event.
There is no argument with the
proposition that Soviet economic
power is rising swiftly. The big
question is: What does the Krem
lin intend to do with this power
and what does it hope to achieve?
Will it mean more for the Soviet
consumer and the risk of chang
ing the monolithic dictatorship
structure of Soviet rule? Will it
be thrown into military adven
turing? Or will it be. used in an
other kind of bid for world dom
ination through enormous invest
ment in economic aid to under
developed countries?
All signs point to the latter. No
qualified student of Soviet affairs
says the Kremlin intends world
conquest by military means. But
few doubt that it intends world
conquest by economic means, with
the use of vast productive capaci
ties ohannalprt nnrl rnncpntratprl
lished estimates are that they will
catch up with the United States
by 1968 in those production
spheres which are important to the
Kremlin. The Kremlin then would
be ready for the big offensive.
These hopes seem much exag
gerated. If consumer goods are
ruled out of the picture, Soviet
production might overtake Ameri
can by 1973.
But there's small comfort in
that. There is little expectation
that the Kremlin intends waiting
until its over-all production
catches up. Already at the ex
pense of the Soviet consumer it
shows signs of preparing to throw
enough Soviet resources into for
eign economic aid programs to af
fect significantly the political be
havior of emerging countries.
TV Showing Of 'Bitter Harvest'
Draws Ire Of Washington Grange
SEATTLE (AP) A television
documentary called "Bitter Har
vest" aired by three Pacific
Northwest TV stations last Thurs
day night, drew a strong protest
from Washington State Grange
Master A. Lars Nelson.
Nelson said it told only '.'half
a story." He said it was based on
a "superficial survey in some of
our' Washington farm areas . . .
In effect it was an indictment of
all agriculture." '
The program dealt with sub
standard housing and living con
ditions among migrant agricultur
al workers. It was aired by KING
TV, Seattle: KR EM-TV, Spokane;
and KGW-TV, Portland.
A KING-TV spokesman said
Saturday the program pointed out
that only about 10 per cent of the
state's farmers hire migrant work
ers. Nelson made a similar state
ment, i
A news account of Nelson's pro
test was carried on a regular
news broadcast, the KING-TV
spokesman said.
Representatives of the Slate
Grange, Nelson said, previewed
the film a few weeks ago and
voiced objeclions. He said their
suggestions were "ignored."
"The inference was created,"
Nelson said, "that the poverty and
health problems of migrants are
the fault of the farmers who hire
them. A more objective study
would have demonstrated this is
not true."
ny an evident isremnn commence
in Soviet military might.
The experts are not auoul 10
reach for the panic button, how
ever. Another side to the coin is
this: The Kremlin is loaded with
its own contradictions, which can
inhibit and interfere with its of
fensives abroad to expand com
munism.
The U.S.S.R. cannot veer away
from a wasteful, inefficient sys
tem for fear that the ruling die,-,
tatorshio's concentrated power
will be diluted. Centralization of
power long has adversely affect
ed the Soviet economy, and there
is strong pressure from Soviet
technocrats now in favor of more
and more decentralization.
Russians have sensed the emer
gence of a new sort of leadership
which finds itself having to com
promise between needs of the
Communist party's power struc
ture - and the rising demands of
an educated population.
The Kremlin is demanding
more and more production per
worker and more and more qual
ity in production. To help achieve
this, it has instituted systems of
labor incentives and bonuses
along with high wages in some
spheres. But this applies new
purchasing power pressure and
there is not eaough , consumer
production to absorb it. Close ob
servers are confident that, given
sufficient time, this pressure will
begin to change the structure of
Soviet society.
But they add a word of warn
inff: The hierarchy would rather
slow down the rate of Soviet
growth deliberately 'than take
chances with reforms which
might bring about dangerous
change. The party leadership
does not want its all-pervading in
fluence over Soviet , life to be
weakened.
And even if the Soviet economic
growth rate were slowed to half
what it is now, in the words of
one competent observer of the
Moscow scene, the Communists
would "still- have enough to be
a source of interminable trouble
to us whenever and wherever
they chose."
Editorial
Comment
DST ISN'T DEAD .
.' Mtdford Mail-Tribune)
Onee. again, the people of Ore
gon turned down daylight savings
time, the vote count on the meas
ure m the Nov: 8 election was
about 347,000 for DST, 379,000
against it a margin of some
32,000 votes.
Have we heard the last of it?
Not on your life. It will be back
again. '
One of the reasons for this is
that Washington state voted for
DST, and Oregon will now be an
island of "slow time durine
summer months, with both Wash
ington and California one hour
ahead.
In chief, this will bother the ra
dio and television people, travel
ers (including tourists), and those
wno do business across state lines.
And, In particular, it will have
its impact in Portland, where
many people commute for work
while living across the river in
Washineton.
In Multnomah eountv. the vote
lavorea DST 143,928 to 98,862,
more than 45,000 votes.
And in the Oregon Journal the
other day, there were two letters
winch are evidence of the continu
ing agitation for daylight time.
one of them declared that Ore
gon probably would have voted for
US l had Us voters known in ad
vance that Washington would.
And the other ursed the Port
land city council to adopt daylight
time for the city alone something
it cannot do under state law.
So, the matter is bound to come
up again. There s already "local
option" law talk.
But there s one thing we re
mighty grateful for. This is the
fact that not once during the cam
paign did we see anyone refer to
Pacific Standard Time as "God's
time." We're always grateful for
such small favors. E. A.
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Reader
Clubs Seek Assistance
In Swim Pool Project
To The Editor:
As most people in this area know,
the Roseburg Junior Woman s
Club and the Roseburg Junior
Chamber of Commerce have taken
on a joint project of cleaning up
and improving the municipal swim
ming pool. Last fall, when both
clubs decided to work together on a
project, several things were sug
gested to us as being very worih
while. A committee of six, com
posed of members from each club,
met with various individuals and
organizations, lo see what we could
accomplish that would benefit
Roseburg the most. After thorough
ly investigating the various ideas
and suggestions presented to us, we
decided we should take the swim
mini, nnnl as nur nroiect. because
it had no organized group behind it
as some of the oilier inings oiu
have; it was badly in need of im
provement and there was no mon
ey allotted for this in the city budg
et, due to the austerity program
we have been following for some
time, and last, but not least, it
would benefit more people, espe
cially the children in Roseburg.
I think most people will agree
that our city pool is not a pretty
sight to look at. What do you sup
Dose our out-of-town guests think
when they see it? Other cities even
smaller than ours, have beauti
ful nnol sites which are kept in
tiD-toD condition year round. If
anvone is interested, we have pic
tures of nools from other towns
in Oregon, which we will be most
happy to show.
Many mothers who took children
to the wading pool last summer
found it closed, because in years
past, when it was open, paper
wranoers. tin cans, bottles and
"what have you" were thrown into
the pool by older children and
passers-by. As a result, the water
was filthy and unsate tor me cnii
riren tn nlav in. Our olan is to elim
inate this very shortly by installing
a sprinkler system in the pool and
by putting a cyclone fence around
it tn kep.n out bicvcles. doss and
the like. The sprinkler system will
keen fresh, clean water running
through the pool at all times.
The bank around the large pool
has already been landscaped and
the cyclone fence around that part
will also be installed very soon.
Other things we plan to do as
funds become available will be to
repair the grandstand, also paint
the grandstand and put a cover
over it, (the sun gets hot when
you are watching a swim meet or
waiting for your children to com
plete their swimming lesson;, re
place the ceiling tile in the bath
house and replace locker room
baskets with plastic bags.
To accomplish all of this, will
take approximately $6000. At the
present time, we have a little over
one-third of the funds we need, so
we have a long way to go. If any
one is interested in contributing to
this project, he may do so by
sending contributions to: City Pool
Improvement Fund, Box No.. 92,
Roseburg, Oregon.
Any amount will be appreciated.
' Mrs. George Stroop'
President Roseburg Jun
ior Woman's Club
137S S. E. Lane
Roseburg, Oregon
Fan Wants Change
In Referee Selection
To The Editor:
Now that election is over it is
time to get down to important
things, next being High School
basketball. That in turn brings
up the unpopular question of good
or poor (homers) officials to which
the paying fans have been grudg
ingly putting up with for too many
years.
High school basketball, as we
fans and ex-fans 1 know, has gone
from an interesting and exciting
evening's entertainment to an eve
ning of watching some "homer"
calling every imaginable foul to'
help his team win. or some "Hun
gry John" interested in pleasing
only the home coach, so he can
pick up a few extra bucks the
next year, or some "whistle foot
er" apparently trying to show off
his 20-20 vision or just show off.
The few capable officials to which
this does not apply are to be highly
commended for doing as well as
they do, while putting tip with
boos and cheers from the fans,
coaches refusing their services be
cause of helping a team win or not
helping it win, and an Athletic
association that either isn't inter
ested or doesn't have any good
method of policing the officials.
For the above reasons I think
the basketball fans of this league
should adopt the following method
of selecting officials:
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Opinions
1. AU schools in this league use
this method.
2. On the back oi eacn season
ticket, for any league game of
the teams in this league, have the
place for the holder of that ticket
to vote for the officials he wants.
3. Each holder of a ticket sends
his used ticket to a designated per
son or group to be counted and
the top vote receiving officials can
then be designated for the next
season.
It is apparent that the present
system is terrible.
It is apparent that the coaches
can't do anything about It.
It is apparent that the superin
tendents can't or won't do any
thing about it. It is apparent that
the athletic association can't or
won't do anything about it. It is
a sad way to teach young athletes
to be honest and sportsmanlike.
If enough people will indicate
their desires we will again be able
to see some good, honest basket
ball. Ted Schullz
P. O. Box 44
Winchester, Ore.
Med ford CD Group Held
Model Cf Organization
To The Editor:
The local Civil Defense Director '
has recently made public his view
of local Civil Defense. I agree
with what he thinks regarding
what we as individuals can do
for ourselves. But there is much
more than' that involved in the
event of an enemy nuclear attack!
The public has been conditioned
to' expect, and to receive expert
direction- over the Civil Defense
radio frequencies. Also, all co
operating agencies will need in
telligent direction. Where will the
expert and intelligent direction lo
cally needed come from on short
notice? Does anyone know: (1)
How to use the information about -radioactive
intensities and fallout
forecasts available from the Wea
ther Bureau; and (2) is all of the
needed equipment in good order
and in the care of capable per
sonnel and kept ready for instant
use. so that an efficient and or-
erly attempt at self preservation
of the whole community may be
possible?
I understand through what I con
sider a reliable source that Med-;
ford has a model Civil Defense
organization that trains and func
tions on a realistic basis. Without
something equal to that, we are
not facing "the facts of life" from
a Civil Defense standpoint.
Leonard J. C. Hedine
683 N. E. Winchester
Roseburg, Ore.
Slide Crushes Boy '
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) A 5-year-old
boy was digging into the
base of a high bank back of the
Eagles Club here. Suddenly part
of the bank gave way and crushed
him.
The boy. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Nailor, who live nearby,
was dead on arrival at a hospital.
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