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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
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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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