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Published by News-Review Co., Inc., 645 S t. Mai St., Beueurf, Oie. Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Atilstant Editor Builn.it Monoi.r Member of the Associated Press, 0c(!on Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Roseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, HOSPITAL ROAD CLOSURE By Charles V. Stanton An action which undoubtedly will be unpopular with many people has been forced upon the Veterans Hospital. The management will stop use cility grounds as a throughway. People will be able to drive to the Administration Building, if they have business at the hospital. But no longer will they be able to cross from West Roseburg to the The closure results from the growing popularity of the route, and that, in turn, will be responsible for a large measure of public dissatisfaction. According to actual count, the road is being used daily by around 8,000 vehicles. That's more vehicular use than exists on many of our city It must be considered Rerve the community as a thoroughfare but only as a nec- cssary part of hospital administration. The VA, however, has permitted public use of a road which is of private nature. Now the traffic load come dangerous, as well as purpose or the route. Alternates Provided When it was constructed vided the only direct connection between the southwest and northwest sections of the community, separated as they are by the South umpqua River. Use of the road saved a great deal of distance and time for residents of the two areas. More recently, however, the Stale of Oregon has built the Highway 99 freeway, which parallels the VA road at a distance of only a few blocks. At the same time the City of Roseburg has a roadway through Stewart Park which bypasses the hospital route. The VA bridge, it was reported, will remain open to through traffic over the Stewart Park road. This latter connection is quite widely used by residents of the Hucrest area. John Warburton, city munag'er, has advised the VA, according to Frank Merker, manager of the Veterans Hos pital, that the city will make a fill along the river at the south entrance to Stewart Park, as soon as money is avail able. This piece of road is under water at rare intervals but generally is open to traffic. It is planned to raise the entrance road above the high water level and to improve the surface over the entire road, which then will give res idents of the Garden Valley route a way by which they can reach the city while bypassing the main hospital grounds. The fact that routes exist it possible to eliminate the extreme danger existing from the fact that the VA road has become a highly patronized public thoroughfare, Manager Merker reports. Lives Endangered The VA was glad to accommodate the public need when the road was used by only a few score cars daily, officials report. Now, however, it is getting continuous travel heavy travel. While 49 out of 50 motorists may drive carefully, obey ing speed restrictions, recognizing the fact that movements of mentally disturbed patients along the roadway can't be predicted, the 50th driver isn't the cautious, responsible type, Merker points out. This very small percentage of drivers drivers who critically endanger the lives of pa tients create one factor making closing .of the road to through travel necessary, it was slated. The hospital's first responsibility is to the safety, wel fare, physical and mental health of the patient, the man ager explains, and this responsibility must be considered above all else. The growth of public traffic has developed a most serious danger to the patients, he asserts, forcing the VA to take drastic action. The manager and other officials expressed regret that it has become necessary to eliminate the throughway over the hospital grounds and force traffic onto the existing al alternate routes. Simultaneously appreciation was ex pressed for the courtesy and responsibility shown by all except a small minority of drivers who have been using the road. 55 Miles Off California Coast A Giant Ear Is Cupped To Heavens SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (AP) On this barren, gullied clod of earth 55 miles off the California coast man has cupped a giant ear to the heavens. ' Today this ear, a dish-shaped antenna fill feet in diameter, is listening to a satellite 400 miles high which photographs the world's weather and measures the heat the earth receives from the tun. Sometime next year it will be gin listening to another kind of satellite one with a man in it. This antenna and others in the network around the globe will keep ground scientists informed around tho clock when America's astronauts venture into orbit. Newsmen got their first look at this new and heretofore secret tracking facility of tho National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration Tuesday as the robot weather man, Tiros II, made its 92nd circuit of tho globe. At the sound of an alarm an eprralor seated himself at a con sole of flashing lights and dials with nervous needles. Cenlcred on Luncheon Postponed SALEM (AP)-Gov. Mark O. Hatfield did not have lunch with Sen. Maurine Ncuberger Friday as had been planned. Ho said Mrs. Ncuberger asked to have the luncheon rescheduled Dec. 15, because of her NATO trip. Hatfield had invited Mrs. Ncu berger to a luncheon at his home so they could discuss problems ofthe state. Ore. Sot, Dee. 3, 1960 of the road through the la- Garden Valley road. streets or county roads. that the road wasn't built to has grown so big it has be- interfering with the primary the VA bridge and road pro- and provides an alternate around the reservation makes a small panel was a lollipop-sized "joy stick." Grasping this control lever he swung the 11-ton dish around like a toy, picking up the satel lite's signals as it whizzed up over the northern horizon. At the push of a button the 200 pound satcllilo began radioing pictures it had taken and stored during its previous orbit. This fin ished, it began chattering into the giant ear what it had learned about the way the earth absorbs and radiates the sun's heat rays. Fourteen minutes later it was all over. The satellito had rushed on beyond the southern horizon. Fifty-five miles away, in the headquarters of the Pacific Vis silc Range at Point Mugu, the pictures and the infrared data had heen received by microwave ra dio and wero being processed and studied. Within two hours, the- photo graphs of clouds snapped bv the satellito would be in the hands of Navy, Air Force and civilian weather forecasters thousands of miles away. Fantastic as all this may seem, Tiros 11 actually has not accom plished much so far because one of ils two TV cameras the one which was supposed to cover an area of 50.000 square miles isn't working properly. Eventually alter many of these satellites have been launched weathermen will know what's brewing upstairs all around the world. This will mean safer trav. el, quicker storm warnings and better odds that you need never he caught in the rain without a slicker. In The Day's News 'mm i ii r riAkiir iruirikit ' 1 From Sacramento: A mild outbreak of gold fever may be imminent in California's mother lode because of the na tion's decreasing gold supply. Bruce Allen, of Los Gatos, chair man of an assembly interim com mittee on manufacturing, oil and mining, says: "Concern over U. S. gold reserves has received parti cular attention in California, where a large proportion of the nation's gold deposits are located." Question: How big is California'! gold min ing industry? It isn't very big. The Sacramen to dispatch adds: "At the moment, California's gold industry consists of five dredges working in the Marysville Sacramento area and two medium size mines in Sierra county. The Division of Mines reports that there are also claims scattered over Northern California." "These claims are normally worked by one or two men when the weather permits. When the weather is unfavorable, the work stops." Why so little mining? It isn't that there is no gold left in California. There is a lot of it in the ground. There's a lot of it in Southern Oregon. But at present day wages and high cost of living that makes the high wage scale unavoidable, the established price of $35 an ounce doesn't leave much profit in the great majority of cas es. What to do? A lot of people (especially those interested in mining) say RAISE THE PRICE OF GOLD. The figure most discussed seems to be $105 an ounce. At that price, it is as serted, gold mining would again become profitable and a lot of it would be taken out of the ground to be added to the nation's dwin William L. Ryan Kennedy Focused On African Battle President-elect John F. Kennedy focused national attention at a critical moment upon the battle ahead in Africa. His aonnintment of Michigan Gov. G. Alennen Williams as as sistant secretary of state for Af rica comes amid indications from the hutre continent that the Congo situation has aroused fear and suspicion of Communist intentions. This is detectable even among leaders who consider themselves leftist and who are loud in their condemnation of the West. If this is so. there is a chance that black Africa soon will sim mer down, at least sufficiently to give its leaders a chance to assess cautiously what may lie ahead. This by no means softens the warning by Sen. Kennedy that "the fate of Africa, which is now Daily Bible Reading Message By Roseburg Ministerial Assn. Scriptural Luke 1: 57-80 God never makes a mistake. It would be inane for any one of us to think for a moment that one of His promises would ever fail. Through Gabriel, the angel, God promised Zacharins that his wife, Elisabeth, would bear a son and that his name should be John. And so it was. In the fulness of time, even in barrenness and late years of life, God brought to pass His promise and cave them the desires of their hearts. God al ways honors those of His children who will live and walk uprightly in righteousness. The conduct of Elisabeth's cou sins and friends is a marked ex ample of love and kindness which we owe each other. What a dif ferent atmosphere it would be in this present evil world if this grace of conduct was more common! What a change would come if ev ery hamlet, town and city would become Christianl Only heaven will record the reward for a kind word here, a kind act there, a word of encouragement, a word of congratulation or consolation in joy or sorrow. The person whose heart is warmed by a joyful event or chilled by affliction, is keenly sensitive to such conduct, a ex hibited by Elizabeth's relatives and friends. Is your conduct of such lofty and princely qualities? Obedience to God is a virtuo that should grace us, too. Zachar ins and Elisabeth obeyed God rath er than the natural inclinations or the voices of man in naming the infant child. The friends and rela tives certainly meant well in sug gesting the father's name, but thev did not know the will of God con cerning the child, even to the choos ing of a name. Sometimes people carried away in their exuberant spirits misa the will of God, even though all mav be done wilh an honest heart. But it was not so with these godly parents Ihcy lis tened not to selfish inclinations or human voices. They named tho infant John, (the gift of Jehovah). Then, with the Joy of the Lord and a loosed tongue, Zacharias prophesied of the comine Christ. of Whom John was to herald, say ing, "Blessed by the I.ord God if Israel; for he hath visited and re deemed his people . . . ." Still rejoicing and with the Spirit of 1,00 upon mm, ne addressed his infant son in the midst of a group of wondering people, saying, "Thou child, shall be called the Prophet of the Most High." A long period of some 400 years had elapsed since the last of the long string of prophets spoke of the coming Mes siah, but now John is chosen of God lo hear the "Good News" far and wide. Rev. Clarence Zweigart, fiastnr lucres! Christian Mission ary Alliance. dling cold reserves. It sounds interesting. But, as is so often the case, there's a catch to it. Tripling tbe established price of gold would amount simply to inflation mat is lo say, jhukc money, worth LESS. So, as the price of gold went up, the cost of eettine it out of the ground would go up correspondingly, and in the long run nobody would be any better off. It would be just an other case of the cat chasing its tail. , Speaking of money, California's state director of finance, John E. Carr, saya this morning: call fornians are saving MORE mon ey, spending LESS money and re fusing to BORROW money." Is that bad? At the first blush, it sounds that way. But lot s get on wun tne n nancial news. Frank Mackin, California super intendent of savings and loan com Danies. reports today: "These com panics are paying 4V4 per cent on deposits, wnicn are picxing up su fast that after the summer of 1961 there might be a drop in tne in tprpsf rain." William J. Murphy, California state superintendent of banks says the banks are expanding into more and more branch offices. He adds that five NEW banks will probably be approved in the next two weeks. That's the wav it works. When interest rates are high, people tend to spend less and save more, when intnrpst rates are low. peo ple tend to save less and spend more. The simple fact is that mon ey is a commodity, whose prices are governed by the law of supply and demand. What this saving up means Is that in the course of time there will be plenty of money saved up again to lend to people who are in a position to make constructive use ot ;t. mat win De uuuu. Attention Ahead the object of a giant Communist offensive, will affect vitally the security of every citizen of the United Slates, xnere is no easy solution in store for black Afri ca's problems. It will remain the arena for a grim cold war strug gle. But it will be important for Americans if African leaders re alize that there is more than one kind of outside domination. The Africans are familiar with the sort which came from Europe and which has just about been con signed forever to history. Africans have had no experience with mod ern communist colonialism wnicn surrenders none of tho vast ter ritories it has conquered. ; The Congo remains a key to Af rica's immediate future. There is little hope for stability while su perimpatient African leaders look upon Kcd interference in the Con go as an instrument to further their own ambitions. But Westerners who know Af rica say what has been going on among its new nations has been a sort of flexing of muscles in a contest to determine which will emerge as Uio leading influence in the continent. Probably, in' the long run, nei ther Ghana nor Guinea, which seem to be in the forefront of that contest, will be strong enough to occupy the role. The emergence of Nigeria is among factors work ing against the pretensions of the other two to leadership. Indeed, Nigeria can turn out to be, even tually, a significant force for stability in Alrican politics. Undoubtedly most young Afri can leaders are impatient to erase all traces of European colonial ism. Britain and France, the ma jor colonial powers, aware that the old sort of imperialism is dead, have been seeking to bridge tho colonial era and independ ence. Moscow wants no such bridge. Immediate independence for all dependent areas would suit Mos cow's purposes, since it would foretoken chaos, confusion and rivalries. Africans may be tumbling to this. One indication is a recent Asian-African resolution in the U. N. which, though it seeks the end of colonialism, makes its de mand read "quick steps toward" independence. The word "toward" suggests Africans, too, sec a need for a bridge, in the light of the Congo experience. The resolution probably jolted Moscow. Whatever rival muscle-flexing is going on in Africa, whatever de signs leaders like Sckou Toure of Guinea or Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana may have had in the Con go, there seems a hint now that they look upon all this as an Afri can affair and not the business of a gigantic Soviet power thou sands of miles away. This can suggest to the Kennedy administration that the patterns of African development are far from frozen and that there is rea son to hope the continent's lead ers will attempt to find their own way, independent of outside domi nation. Former Garden Valley Girl Completes Term Seaman Appren. Jonnie Mae Hastings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hastings, of Garden Valley has completed her early training in the Waves and has been sent to Memphis, Tenn., for further spe cialised training. Brother Vitlttd Mr. and Mrs. Don Hastings and children of Eugene were in Gar den Valley over Thanksgiving to visit his brother, John Hastings and sister, Mrs. Gordon Hughes, and their families. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Arola of Springfield had Thanksgiving wilh his father. Carl Arola. and other family members, reports Addic Schneider, correspondent. DATE BIBLICAL HISTORY COagon Statesman, Salem Harvard University has an nounced that a team of Americans working in archaeological exca vation at Shechem, Israel's first capital, has established that t h e Biblical Abimclech reigned briefly about 1150 B.C. ihe event is de scribed in Judges 9:45: "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and slew the people that were therein. and beat down the city and sowed it with salt." The Biblical story is part of the 4000-year record of the city's life that is buried in the 25-acre mound near the present day village of Balatha. Jordan. The purpose of the expedition as well as similar other archaeological projects in the Holy Land is to relate Biblical history to known events in ancient history. Shechem flourished during an cient Egyptian and Biblical times was a stronghold of an empire ruled from Egypt when visited by Arbaham and Jacob in their trav els. During this period, Shechem's inhabitants first built a massive temple-fortress, a 35-foot high wall around the city with two great gates. Israelites under Joshua in t h e 13th century B.C. conquered the land after it had been in -Egyptian control for 400 years. After the death of King Solomon, all Israel assembled at imecnem to make Solomon's son, Reboboam, king. Tribes of Israel revolted and established the Northern Kingdom of Israel, with Shechem as first capital, Later the Samaritans at tempted to make tbe city a rival ot Jerusalem. The temple-fortress of Shechem. destroyed by Abimelech, was first uncovered in 1925 by a German expedition. The building was 70 by 85 feet, with 17-feet thick walls. Leaders of the new expedition be lieve the temple is the site de stroyed by Abimelech and the time about 1150 B.C., dates based on pottery fragments found in ruins. Hebrew but no Philistine pottery was found; though com mon in other ancient cities in Is rael, of 1150-1000 B.C. period, when Philistines conquered much ot tne Holy Land. Three buildings, mentioned in the Biblical account were also dis covered, the "house of Baal bereth," the "house Milo," and the "tower of Shechem," by the Harvard expedition. They all re fer to the great temple-fortress. The Harvard team of archaeo logists included 27 American teach ers and graduate students, an Aus tralian and four Jordiamans and they believe thev have also as sembled accurate historical data covering the period between the time of Alexander the Great and some 50 years after the death of Christ, assembled from pottery iragmenis, coins, jewels and otn er Holy Land objects. Work will be resumed in 1962. G.P. REWRITING CONSTITUTION Medford Mail-Tribune On Nov. 8, the voters approved by a big margin a proposal to em power the legislature to revise Ore gon's constitution, if it so elected. The Oregon Journal now sug gests how this might be accom plished. Its idea is that an interim committee, composed of both leg islators and a considerable repre sentation of non-legislator mem bers from many fields, including the law, be empanelled to draft a proposed new constitution for sub mission to a later legislature. We don't think tho legislature, torn is it is with factionalism and burdened down with some 1,500 bills each session lo say noth ing of serving with insufficient pay is in any position to do a compe tent job of rewriting the constitu tion during a regular session. But an interim committee, well chosen, could serve as sort of a "little constitutional convention," and present its work to the legis lature, which then could adopt, re ject or amend it. If it approved it by a two-thirds vote of both houses' (not an easy thing to get, these days) it would go to a vote of the people. If they, in turn, approved it, It would become the state's basic charter. And we need one. The United States Constitution takes up 7 pages in the Oregon Blue Book; Oregon's takes up 21 pages. It is cluttered, not only with a lot of obsolete provisions, but also many "special interest" provisions plac ed there (by vote of the people) after aggressive campaigns. This sort of thing belongs in the stat utes, not in the Constitution. But it will be found that re writing the Constitution will not be an easy job. There will be objec tions' voiced to many proposed de letions, and there will be inevitable Reader Opinions Kennedy's, Johnson's Foreign Spending Hit To The Editor: Radio, newspapers and TV are full of the problem of our shrink in, a.,M mtprvn It's a real one. wilh our "allies" refusing to take on anv responsibility, uncie nam is calling back a lot of scvice- mnn'a famillPC flfim OVCrSPflS tO cut down the drainage. But Vice President Meet Lyn don B. Johnson, while in London on official business, puis in an order for five new suits wilh a London tailor, lo cosi sm.uu eacn, (50 guineas). He ordered them on a d'rush order" for delivery by Jan. 1. 'that Presidentelect John Fitz gerald Kennedy has long had suits made in l.ondon". Well, John son's gold drain will be only about $735.00, and probably Kennedy's annual bill will equal or tojj that. Anybody suggest a good Wa son? iiien vtcioasri loss N. E. Walnut St. Roseburg, Ore. iditorical suggested additions for "special in terest" type legislation. But if a good interim committee can come up with a draft Consti tution nood enough to meet with approval of two-thirds of the legis lature, it would nave to De a good one. In such a case, a majority of the people probably would go along with it. E.A. BASIS FOR ATTACK Coos Bay World Republicans, some of them, find it impossible to believe they can lose elections. Losses must be ex plainable by fraud! This does not necessarily apply, however, to Re publican Party leaders who are now most loudly crying "foul" in the election of Senator Kennedy as President, and demanding vote in vestigations in a number of states, chiefly Illinois- They know better. But they are sagely laying a basis for opposition to President Kenne dy in the next four years. Kennedy's position under the best of circumstances might be dif ficult. The popular vote finished in a dead heat. (Had his plurality been anything less than 1 million, it could realistically have been de scribed as a "dead heat." His op- Kosition can continually claim he as no "popular" mandate for any policy, overlooking the fact that he did win, and Mr. Mxon did lose. The ability to cap the "no man date" argument with loud claims he is in the White House as the result of election frauds would be he nful. Frauds do not have to be proven in Illinois or anyplace else to make the argument effective. The repeat ed claim, like the "big lie," even tually takes on an aura of truth if repeated often enough, Democratic denials of fraud must necessarily look weak. An overwhelming majority of the nation's press will be vocally against Mr. Kennedy's actions, of course. Thus far this agency of con servative thinking has not been able to begin its attack on Ken nedy. After all, he hasn't entered office yet, and decency seems to demand that he be allowed to at least offer a program before he is condemned. Allegations of fraud allega tions based not on evidence, it would seem, but rather on wishes and on frustrated anger will Eive the press something with which it can begin an attack. It also justifies attack, for it denies thinking that most people are be hind the new President. One hesi tates to attack if he thinks the President has a majority of the people with him, and this must be assumed in the early phases of a newly-elected administration. . But if one can persuade himself 'that the President is illegitimate that in fact most people are not with him then there is no scruple against attacking at once. Before this fraud business is over, it is going to sound very believable. You will be able to read about it, or hear and see "about" it. every day for the next four years! Republicans were very badly demoralized by the election. The closeness of it only added to the agony ot having lost, in addition, the party, as a party, trailed so badly behind its leader. Mr. Nix on, at the polls that an additional reason for disillusionment is pres ent. Republican leaders (with tbe notable exception of Nixon, it seems) have seized on the "cor ruption" issue as a quick gimmick to reinstill fight into the- troops. It should work handily. Sources of the vote fraud claims are, by the nature of their motiva tion, suspect. This fact, however, will be difficult to ferret out of the cascade of charges. SHORT CIRCUIT FOR JUSTICE Coos Bay World It is true Walter Tearson, State Senate President and acting gover nor while Mark Hatfield was junk eting in South America, had the authority to set wife-slayer Chester Lincoln f itzwaler, 47, free from the penitentiary. While the gover nor is out of the state, the acting governor can exercise his power ot clemency. No other acting gov ernor in many years has chosen to do so. But Pearson did have the authority, and chose to exercise it. Although legally correct, Pearson undertook a most questionable act. Apparently 'he did so in anger over what he thought was the fail ure of established authorities to give the son of a friend a proper hearing. The result is Pearson has turned back upon society i slayer without due process of the state's parole and rehabilitation system. Perhaps that system is not all it should be. If so, Pearson, as a long time Repuhlicrat member of the State Senate, must bear part of the responsibility. He bears all the responsibility for freeing Fitzwater, who gunned down his wife in 1953, pleaded guil ty to second degree murder and received a life sentence. Parole authorities have consistently refus ed to commute Fitzwatcr's sen tence, although they reviewed it Jieriodically. Pearson has frcquent y feuded with the Parole Board over this ease and finally, last week, seized the opportunity of one of Hatfield's frequent, trips outside Orecon to commute the sentence himself against the advice of pe nal and rehabilitation experts and set the man free. Pearson's excuses were trans parently those of someone grasp ing for justification after an act of anger, lie said Warden Gladden agreed with him that Representa tive Fitzwatcr's son had been "re habilitated." If this is true, then Gladden is about the only one ex cepting Pearson himself who makes that judgment and it need not be pointed out Warden Glad den is not the Parole Board nor its' staff of advisers and experts, and these last named did not be lieve Fitzwater "rehabilitated." Pearson said he felt if Fitzwater had stood trial instead of pleading guilty, he'd have received no worse a verdict than manslaughter. Per- i haps so. But it is a li t-' late to be making that judgment, which would have been the responsibility of a jury back in 1953, when the facts of the case were considerably I fresher than they were in Pcar I son's brain in 1960. The acting gov Comment ernor also said he thought Fitz watcr's case had not been given adequate consideration by the prop er parole authorities. Perhaps so. But a horseback reversal of proper parole authorities by a moonlight lng governor is not the path to jus tice either. Society hopes that the freed man is rehabilitated and will be able to become a productive member of society. Pearson's impetuous act his dangerous act is no guarantee of it. In fact, by short-circuiting re habilitative procedures he has made it less likely that Fitzwater can make the grade. CONFLICT OF INTEREST Klamath Falls Herald & Ntws A discussion in the Herald and News recently by Bill Jenkins re lating to the eventual conflict of interest between boating-skiing and fishing groups on Klamatn lakes is a matter of national sig nificance. As Bill pointed out in his col umn, the subject is of more than passing significance and it de serves intelligent and discerning study. ' Across the nation, the new popu larity of high-powered boats and skiing has brought about pitched battles between anglers and boat enthusiasts. The fact is that swim mers, high powered boats, skin divers and fishermen simply won't mix. That is to say, there is hardly a spot in the world where all in terests could be satisfied. This is a problem that is being tackled on the national level by a presidential commission that was appointed to study the problem of outdoor recreation. Known as the Outdoor Recreation Resources Re view Commission, it will report its recommendations next year. The bipartisan group hopes to present an overall recreation pol icy to guide the federal govern ment, and the local and state agen cies as well, including private in dustry. Laurence S. Rockefeller is chair man of the commission which in cludes Rep. Al Ullman and Sen. Henry Jackson (Wash.) who re placed the late Sen. Neuberger. To find out what the people want in the way of outdoor recreation, the commission has contracted with the Census Bureau to obtain a sampling of opinion from 16,000 households. The sampling is be ing divided into quarters for sea sonal purposes. Objectives of the commission in clude some sort of policy guide by which new recreation resources can be found to meet the demands of a growing population. On a long-range basis, the study, when it is finally completed, prob ably will furnish many of the an swers needed in this field. How ever, it is apparent that state and local agencies will have to eet busv on some way to alleviate the im- uieuiaie, pressing problem. This will have to come soon before we find ourselves in a civil war featuring power boats and skis and surf boards versus swim fins, spear guns, casting rods and gang hooks, or vice versa. O & C REVENUES Oregon Statesman, Salem The eighteen counties in West ern Oregon which contain acreages of O & C lands had a report at a meeting in Portland last week of operations on these lands during the previous fiscal year. Receipts amounted to $32,517,000. One-half of this went to the counties under the formula written in the 1937 act. This $16,158,000 broke all pre vious records. Then another one quarter of the total was used, by county approval, for reinvestment in the management of the lands. For this fiscal year the counties approved a spending budget of $8,000,000 with this division: $5, 105,000 for construction of acess roads, $440,000 for administra tion, $410,000 for surveys, $400, 000 for maintenance, $340, 000 for acquisitions and ease ments. $700,000 for reforestation, $250,000 for campsites and recrea tion areas, $35,000 for research and $800,000 to be spent on the so called controverted lands adminis tered by the forest service. (The bulk of O & C lands are adminis tered by the bureau of land man agement). This investment is wise for it permits adoption of long-term management policies in the con servation and use of this valuable resource. The counties are cooper ating well with BLM and the latter is doing an excellent job of re source management. HYPOCRISY Ashland Tidings It seems a young man lived with his parents in a public housing de velopment. He attended public school, rode the free school bus, and participated in the free lunch program. He entered the Army dnd upon aiscnarge Kepi nis nation al life insurance. He then enrolled in the State University, working part time in the State capital to supplement nis lit cnecx. Upon graduation, he married a public health nurse and bought a farm with an FHA loan and then obtained a Small Business Admin istration loan to go into business. A baby was born in the county hospital. He bougnt a ranch with the aid of a GI loan and obtained emergency feed from the Govern ment. Later he put part of his land in the soil bank and the pavments helped pay off his debt. His par ents lived comfortably on the ranch with their social security and old age assistance checks. REA lines supplied electricity. The Govern ment helped clear the land. The ELKS MEMORIAL SERVICE ELKS TEMPLE 2 P.M. SUNDAY DEC. 4, 1960 PUBLIC INVITED county agent showed him how to terrace it, then the government paid part of the cost of a pond and stocked it with fish. The Govern ment guaranteed-him a sale for his farm products. Books from the public library were delivered to his door. He banked money which a Government agency insured. His children grew up, entered public schools, ate free lunches, rode free buses, played in public parks and swam in public pools. The man owned an auto mobile so he favored the Federal aid highway program. He signed a petition seeking Fed eral assistance in developing an in dustrial project to help the econ omy of his area. He was a leader in obtaining the new Federal build ing and a new post office and went to Washington with a group to ask Congress to build a great dam cost ing millions so the area could get "cheap electricity." Then, one day be wrote to his ' Congressman: "I wish to protest excessive Gov ernment spending and high taxes, I believe in rugged individualism. I think people should stand on their own two feet without expecting Government handouts. I am oppos ed to all socialistic trents and I demand a return to the principles of our Constitution." BANK WEEK Bend Bulletin Early in 1959, a pitched battle was raging in the Oregon legis lature over Saturday closing of banks. The battle lines were sharply drawn. . On one side was the First Na tional Bank of Oregon. It want ed to stay open. Qn the other side was practically every other bank in the state, including the powerful U. S. National chain. They wanted to close. First National won the battle. The legislature refused to enact a law closing banks on Saturdays. But it was a hollow victory. First National executives knew it was only a matter of time, really. And many of them especially the young er executives, actually favored Saturday closing. The man, who more than anyone else kept the banks open, was E. B. McNaughton, until last sum mer chairman of the board of First National. It was he, and Frank Bclgra no, First National president, who decided on six-day banking dur ing the post World War II years. Belgrano later left Oregon and has since died. As long as McNaughton was alive, the First National chain was bound to stay open six days. But last summer, he too died. With the passing of these two . men. and retirement of President ' C. B. Stephenson this fall, the stage was set for a new look at six-day banking. Obiviously, First National has decided to give the other Ore gon banks their way. . , and prob ably with little or no remorse. A banking official, during the height of the legislative battle last year, told us that it w a s costing First National about SI mil lion a year in payroll alone to stay open Saturdays. And, he said, the six day week resulted in severe management problems. Staffing for five days is much easier than for six, where jobs have to be shuffled and shifts staggered, he said. Be sides that, he said, bank employ es aren't exactly the same as grocery clerks or salesmen when it comes to shifting jobs. Each job is unique and when people are shifted, it requires quite a bit of training. Well, all of that Is now appar ently past. The banks will go back to the historic five day week that was the style prior lo the Me-Naughton-Bclgrano era. And most of us will eventually get used to it. Especially the banks. BEWARE CARBON MONOXIDE Albany Democrat-Herald If your car is equipped with an air conditioning system that works you won't need to read this, but otherwise it might be a good idea to fix in memory the advice given to motorists by life underwriters. The admonitions are all well known but one is sometimes in clined to forget them at the wrong time, in taking refuge from winter weather. Carbon monoxide is the subject. The insurance brokers remind ers include: 1. Never allow your automobile's exhaust system to become faulty. 2. Never start your automobile's engine in a closed garage. 3. Never stay in a closed, sta tionary car with the motor running. 4. In slow moving, closely spac ed traffic, keep air intakes in the front of your car closed, to guard against carbon monoxide from the exhaust fumes of automobiles ahead of you. 5. If you or any of your pas sengers feel drowsy, stop, get out and get fresh air. Even at the risk of discomfort at least one window or wing of a car on the mad should be kept open, or at any time when - the engine is operating. Some day, perhaps, we won't have to worry much about faulty exhaust systems. Most of today's cars have mufflers and pipes that corrode. Recently, however, some automobile manufacturers have advertised non-corrosive systems. Corrosion problems were long since met by manufacturers of hot water tanks. At last the auto in dustry seems to be catching up. 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