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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Sat., Dec. 31, I960
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
; By Charles V. Stanton
; A Happy New Year!
How heartfelt is the wish we express to our friends at
this particular holiday season!
Not only do we wish well for our friends and for all
about us, but, in the expression of our wish, we are doing
some wishful thinking. For if there is happiness and pros
perity about us, we'll share in that blissful condition. So
the greeting, "Happy New Year," despite its sincerity,
isn't altogether unselfish.
At the same time the greeting usually is exchanged.
The wish is mutual. And in such exchange of mutual de
sire for happiness we voice our continued optimism, re
gardless of the existing situation.
; At this particular time, it seems to me, the words
"Happy New Year" have an especially prophetical mean
ing. ' '
The coming year, I am convinced, will be a happy one,
despite the fact that it may bring us many problems.
All indications point to a year of disturbing factors, at
home and abroad. Possibly we will experience some re
verses. But, overall, it is my opinion that we'll have
reason to be pleased with the results of the new year upon
which we are entering.
Prosperity Indicated
For one thing, we can expect the coming year to offer
a decided improvement in economy.
We are living in a period of experimentation with our
national economy. We have a Federal Reserve Board
which has power to control both inflation and prosperity.
When inflation threatens, the Federal Reserve Board puts
on the financial brakes. Runaway prosperity is slowed.
The big trouble is that we haven't yet learned when
to put on the brake or lo release it without going too far
toward one extreme or the other.
In late years we have been getting periods of prosper
ity followed by periods of recession. The pendulum has been
swinging at about two year intervals, but it has not been
swinging nearly as far as it once did.
As our experience with the system increases, we will
unquestionably learn, .how to better balance and stabilize
our national economy. That statement, however, must
have the qualification that we can learn to balance our
economy only if we can keep the hands of our politicians
off the machinery. ' Our politicians have been using the
system as a means of , getting votes through sentiment,
rather than reason, and they may foul things up with their
meddling.
But the Federal Reserve Board released pressure on
Ihe brake midway in 19G0(. Steps to control threatened in
flation caused the recession we are now experiencing. The
tax demands of the federal and stale governments have
been slowing our economy more and more each year until
after the taxpaying period in April. So we may, I believe,
count on slow business and industrial economy until aft
er taxes are paid. Then, I anticipate, we'll see a sudden
surge of economic revival and a high level of prosperity
throughout the balance or the year.
Labor Involved
Prosperity for the last half of the year I feel is as
"mired, unless we should have an outbreak of labor trouble
That could possibly upset recovery.
For example we're hearing many wails about the plight
of our steel industry. We're told the industry is producing
only half its capacity. But I have seen no figure telling
us how much steel is being used, in tons, by industry.
The information we're getting doesn't tell us whether
the half capacity now being used is as great as full capacity
only a short time ago. Nor are we being told that, be
cause of .the prolonged steel strike of a few months ago,
many concerns contracted for steel from Europe and other
sources and that such contracts had to be signed for a def
inite length of lime. Because of that fact, the strike caused
a considerable volume of imported foreign steel to replace
domestic production.
The situation as it pertains to steel can be reflected
in many other industries. Labor troubles could possibly
have a depressing effect upon what otherwise appears to be
a good outlook for general economic improvement.
But that's taking a pessimistic outlook. Instead, let's
be optimistic.
A Happy New Year, everyone!
In The Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Knd of the year business note: i that year, its advertising budget
'I I,. n.ui cninoact automobiles was $50,000. Us tourist i,., .,,.,
that came on the mantel a lime w.uou.uuu. in taw. the advertising
.. il, n a vear ago maue up i urogram was increased m sum .
30 per cent ol mbi proaucuun ui uw, ami me luurist income rose
autos in the United Males, iney
Edit
are reDortea to nave nan suiuc un
expected effects on business in
general.
For example:
Their manufacture rcuuircs less
steel, less rubber and less of oth
er materials than the bigger cars
that have been popular during the
past decade. To that extent, they
are naro on me piuuutcio u,
rubber and the olher materials
that enter into the manufacture of
cars.
They use less gasoline than the
bigger cars and so, to mat ex
lent, they are hard on the gaso
line industry.
But
The economists tell us the sav
ings in operating cost, capital eust,
etc., STAY IN THIS I'ULnr.is 01
the purchasers of the compacts.
These savings can be used to buy
OTHER THINGS. Thus they are
good for their owners. They are
good for the producers of the things
whose purchase and ownership is
marie. Dossible by the operating
savings of the compacts. I
So, you see, we can't say that :
the compact automobiles will be I
bad for business as a whole.
to $40,000,000. The advertising pro
gram remained at $100,000 until
1941, and in that year the tourist
income was $51,000,000.
Because of World War If, tour
ist advertising was discontinued
from 1942 to 1946, when it was re
sumed with an appropriation of
$150,000. In that year, the tourist
income rose to $83,500,000. The ad
vertising appropriation remained
stationary unlil 1952, by which
year the tourist income had risen
to $121,000,000.
By gradual steps the advertising
appropriation was raised until in
1959, the Oregon centennial year,
it was increased to $400,000. In
that year, the tourist income
amounted to $176,000,000. In 1960,
the advertising appropriation was
reduced to $350,000 and tourist in
come dropped to $170,000,000.
As a taxpayer, you may want
to Know where tne money Oregon
oiiol Comment
!lo be
RED HERRINGS
Coos Bay World
As the world's population
"?" """-"'"n, can'isiators aware
we continue to afford synan pleas-, nroiiram
"This question arise, naturally AstoaTIeglerheferPnes,Tad Z
from the proposal of , Granls ; is. of .... JsV,i"ZJl,!
in Coos Bav. , the chamninn under the sunerb
1 "e coast association uses this field leadership of van Brocklin.
and i annual coastal junket to make leg-
of its legislative
I'ass group that a high very
high dam be built on the Rogue
below the confluent of the llli'
nois. which would back water an.
proximately 1.15 milts, wiping out
me siorieu stream and its storied
resources.
We tend to agree with State Rep
Clarence Barton, who feels the nrn.
posal is a red hfrrina aimed ni
furthering biennial efforts in t h e
Legislature to jet permission to
lake water from the Rogue at
Grants Pass for , industrial pur
poses. In either case, the Rogue
would be ruined so we are talk
ing about the fame thing.
This newspaper is, quite natural
ly, opposed to, either dam, red
herring or nol, or the withdrawal
of Rogue waler for industrial pur
poses. Yet Uie ultimate question
remains of shether the Rogue can
spends to advertise for tourists ! be ("rever protected as a wild area
Conclusion:
What we call
'business is a
comes from. The answer is inter
esting. IT COMES OUT OF THE
POCKETS OF THE TOURISTS
who are attracted to Oregon.
I low come?
It works like this:
The money to advertise Ore
gon's tourist attractions is appro
prated by the Oreeon Stale High
way Commission. It comes out of
curiously complex thing. what ,s ' gasoline tax receipts. The tourists
one man's poison becomes another I wn0 visit Oregon by automobile
man's meat. And vice versa.
pay the Oregon gasoline tax. In
13UU, uregoo spent S350.U00 for lour
From the automobile industry to j jst advertising. The tourists' who
Ihe tourist industry is a natural ; vjsjted Oregon this year paid $3,-
siep necause me inojuiuy m aaa,i( in gasoline taxes
lounsts wlio visit our area uavei
by automobile. And, in Oregon,
what is coming to be called tour
ism is our third largest industry.
It is exceeded only by lumbering
and agriculture. So let's take a
look at our tourist industry.
In 1936. Oregon initiated a mod
est program of national advertis
ing
of its tourist attractions. In 'hard to beat,
Which is to say: The tourists
who visited Oregon this year paid
in Oregon gasoline taxes about
TEN TIMES as much as the ad
vertising cost and in addition they
left 171) million dollars in NEW
MONEY in our stale.
As a business deal, that is pretty
as the need for Oregon industrial
growth presses more heavily
against it.
At any rate Rogueians will con
tinue to try protecing it. They are
ucginning wan auacKs on tne san
The big pressure naturally is for
replacement ot tne lerry system
uy a unuge, out tnis IS a prol)
lem this year which lies largely
in the hands of Washington law
makers. However it won't do any
harm to remind Oregon legislative
members of the coast's continuing
vital need for closing the last link
in the coastal highway or the Unit
ed States west coast.
Directors of the coast associa
tion also want a bond issue to
eliminate remaining bottlenecks on
the coast highway, a desirable pro
ject but one that should remain
secondary to the bridge project
unlil that is finished.
Other maior legislative aims nf
the coast association are a five
man highway commission and
merger of the state fish and game
commissions.
Both of these are of dubious
merit. The stale's three-man high
way commission works well. It is
not so much subject to regional
pressure as a five-member com
mission would be. The coast asso
ciation might regret it if a five-
He is raled by many experts as
one of the great quarterbacks in
the history of professional football,
and there have been many good
ones.
We wish him success in what
ever new venture he takes on.
The FOOD MART
will be
OPEN
NEW YEAR'S
SUNDAY & MONDAY
Country Dance
New Year's Eve
9 P.M. to 1 A.M.
75c each 1.50 Couple
BRING THE FAMILY
Children under 12 Fret
Western Music
Winchester
Community Hall
4 mi. North on old Hiway 99. 1
black past log cabin ttora on
Club Street. I
ily of the Josephine Countians who I member commission were creat
would build the dam
ed, for we could be outnumbered
The Pacific Northwest does need j down this way. The fish-game
merger has many things wrong
with it. Let's hope the coast asso
ciation does not argue too strong
ly for this project.
Governor Launches Investigation
Into Escape From State Hospital
SALEM (AP) Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield said the prison's crim
Ilatfield announced here he has! inally insane ward cannot be used
launched an investigation into the to house dangerous persons who
escape from the stale hospital of
a man who admitted a series of
rapes and olher sex crimes.
Hatfield disclosed the investi
gation in saying that the hospital's
receiving ward should contain a
security unit to house criminals
who are potentially dangerous.
Hatfield said he is investigating
the escape Monday night of Ches
ter Wayne Hedrick, 25, and Ver
non Wesley Street, 41, from the
receiving ward, Hodrick has been
labeled Portland's "Fat Man
rapist."
Both were sent by the courts to
the hospital for observation. 1
"The basic problem," the gov
ernor said, "is relations with the
courts, which are sending hun
dreds of people each year lo (he
hospital for observation. The law
requires that all sex criminals he
sent there, and that might not be
a wise provision."
are mere lor observation. That
ward, he said, is custodial, and
does not have Ihe staff needed to
make the necessary tests and observations.
The solution, he said, probably
would be to construe!, within the
receiving ward, a facility thai
would be escape proof.
Dr. Dean K. Brooks, hospital
superintendent, said that Hedrick
and Street are Ihe first escapees
from the receiving ward in 12
years.
For Street, convicted of burg
lary, it was the second escape in
three years from the hospital.
Hedrick was sent there only a
few days ago, after pleading
guilty to a charge of attempted
rape. He admitted, police said,
a series of rapes and olher sex
crimes, some igainst teenage
girls.
additional hydro - electric Dower
But the feasibility of the proposed
nugue prujeci is quudiiui. it like
ly would not pay out on the
amount of power which the river's
normal now, ana tne fall -at the
site, would generate. The addition
of olher claimed benefits do not
seem to change the situation, eith
er.
While the Northwest needs ad
dilional power, it can get it with
out the rape of the Rogue. In fact,
luo large hydro projects in the
immediate area PP&L's on the
Conuille at Eden Ridge and Coos
Curry Co-op's on the Illinois near
buzzard s Roost are very prob
able in the next 10 years, neither
despoiling the recreational poten
tials of Southwestern Oregon at
the same lime.
If the Josephine County people
are serious in the proposal, which
we must continue to doubt, it still
remains a bad one.
TO GREET LEGISLATURE
Astorian-Budget
The Oregon Coast- Association is
making plans for ils annual enter
tainment of Oregon legislators at
the coast, with the event this time
Governor's Medicare Committee
Completes Report On Program
SALEM (AP) The Governor's ; of a single stale administrative
Sinatra Will Wear Bowler
At Kennedy's Inauguration
Advisory Committee on .Medical
Care for Ihe Aged has put into
final form its report on what the
slate should do under the pro
gra in.
The report, basically the same
as that agreed upon several weeks
ago, will go lo Gov. Mark 0. llat
liehi Wednesday.
The program of medicare that
the report contained would cover
some B5.000 persons 65 and older
nol now covered by welfare aid.
The committee said this is about
half the estimated number over
1)5 who have personal incomes
less than $1,500.
Joseph Harvey, chairman of the
slate Welfare Commission, heads
the committee.
The committee said slate laws
will have lo be amended with re
sped to: 1 Recovery rights ofitarv health insurance agencies
Ihe slate tor medical
i iicsiuence requirements lor, assistance
public assistance; 3 Designation i the rcDurt said
I The committee
3 xMi.o titllrtl.v Ut'jlUII -
assistance; should participate ln 'he medical
nents f o r i assistance to Ihe "Bed program,"
HOLLYWOOD.Calif. (AP) Don
l.oper, noted designer of women's
fashions, will have a unique en
try at the inauguration of Presi
dentelect John V. Kennedy
Frank .Sinatra.
The thin singer, one of Ken
nedy's strongest movieland boost
ers, will produce the inaugura
tion eve gala show that the Dem
ocratic National Committee hopes
will erase much of a $2-million
campaign deficit. As an old friend
Condemned Flier's
Wife Visits Cell
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -Yvonne
Pope said here she has
seen her husband Allan I.awrcnre
Pope several times in his death
cell in the past week and he
seems to be in good health.
Mrs. Pope, who arrived here 10
davs ago incognito on a tourist
visa, had a 20-minute talk with
President Sukarno Wednesday.
She refused to be drawn into
anv discussion with newsmen
about tho subjects talked about,
ho'v Sukarno received her and
what hopes she now has concern
ing the - fate nf her husband,
a Miami, Kla., flier who was sen
tenced to death by an Indonesian
court-martial April 29 for partici
pating In the Indonesian revolt' in
Xiav 1958.
Mrs. Pope said she Is satisfied
about (he treatment lie received
in prison.
of the Kennedy family, Sinatra
will be a guest at the inaugura
lion and all olher festivities. i
Kor that reason, lie gave Loper i
"a small fortune'1 lo design an'
inauguration wardrobe. I
"I'm staking my reputation
that Frank will be the most
elegantly dressed guest at (he in
auguration." says Uiper. "Fur
thermore, I believe he will revive
a correctness in male dress (hat
has been deplorably lacking since
the thirties, he added.
Inauguration visitors will see
Sinatra sporting such touches as
a bowler and chesterfield top coat
worn with his formal morning and
afternoon wear.
A chesterfield might be called
startling even for evening wear
now but Loper has designed
something more elegant for
Sinatra to wear over his while tie
and tails.
"Frank will wear Ihe new, low
er British-made silk top hat with
Inverness cape, lined with rich.
black satin. It's Ihe most elegant
cape I have ever seen," says j
Loper.
Frank's afternoon and morning I
derby also will be the lower Bond i
Street model. Loper ordered them !
from Kngland.
Loper has made Frank two sctsi
of everything, including all linen
wear "in case he spills any!
thing."
Loper and Sinatra are old
friends. I-oper recenlly designed '
the troujseau for young Nancy I
Sinatra vhen she married singer I
Tommy Sands. j
Benefit Payments
High In Navy Fire
Earth Is Losing
Waistline Bulge
NEW YORK (AP) Mother
earlh is slimming .down that
slight bulge around her 'waistline
but not so you'd notice.
It's going to take her some 100
million years. ,
And the old girl is almost im
perceptiblyslowing up. But her
body is a lot stronger than the
doctors thought it was before.
These are some of the indica
tions from satellite studies report
ed to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
meeting by Dr. Gordon J. F. Mac
Donald of the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration.
First, Ihe satellite studies
showed that earth's shape was
more full around the middle than
had been supposed.
Scientists were able to deler-
mine Ihe earth's shape from Ihe
unusual action of man-made sai
tellites circling the earlh. One
vanguarn saieuiie s omit was
found to vary by as much as a
half a mile a day, in obedience to
me earlh s gravity.
per year of state and1 lne earth has had its midriff
!k wilh full federal ! 1,use for the past 100 million
years, ur. macuonakl said.
But slowly the earth is reduc
ing tho speed with which it turns
on its axis and this slowing is
adding 1 1000th of a second to
each day each century.
ln 100 million years Ihe total of
these fractions of a second will
come to a 15-minute longer day.
This reduced spin will also in
fluence the earth's shape and.
probably, slowly Ihe earth's crust
will adjust to the slower speed
and the bulge will gradually dis
appear. It isn't known whether Ihe
earth's crust can accommodate
Ihe slowly lessening bulge with
out cracking, but Dr. iMacDnnald
recommended ",l wiu probably creep back
im into effect ml sl,aPe-
agency: 4 Excluding ims irom
application of the relative respon
sibility law before the program
could be implemented.
The committee used Ihe figure
S.1.250.000
cnuntv funds with
matching funds to raise the total
available to $65 million.
It estimated $500,000 of this
would be required for administra
tion. The committee said it would be
practical for the state to attempt
to provide medicare on the same
scope it now gives old age assist
ance under welfare.
The committee said, too, the
Public Welfare Commission
should administer the program.
"The committee believes that to
Ihe extent feasible, existing voiun
THE BEST
Eugene Register - Guard
The University of Oregon has
sent a great number of its football
stars into professional football
over the years, but none has done
so well in the play-for-pay ranks
as Norman Van Brocklin.
Van Brocklin. at 34, is an old
pro. lie says he will now retire
from active play after leading his
Philadelphia Eagles to (lie cham
pionship over the Green Bay Pack
ers on Monday.
In his college davs at Oregon.
Van Brocklin was a third-stringer
until former coach Jiin Aiken
found that he had an unusual abil
ity to throw the football. Almost
overnight. Van Brocklin became a
slar quarterback and eventually
led the Oregon team to the Cotton
Bowl in 1941.
He then went with the Los An
geles Rams, where he starred for
several years. Van, a strong per
sonality (which is one of the rea
sons he is a great quarterback)
disliked having the coach send in
the plays from the bench. This
led to a falling out with the Rams.
and he was traded to a luckless
Philadelphia team. In two vears
Ihe doormat of the league became
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n
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WASHINGTON (API Th l minimum adeqmic mmms as lie
tonsienalion fire in ltrookln
ntiliintr tin. nroni'
bv Julv 1, 19. with a total ap
propriation for the next bu-nmum
of SUI million, which includes
........ and frrtil:il fnmlc
The proposed plan won in provide i lit Kirt Nfiin hire
inim.,,.. adeouale henetils as ilc-i wl 5 "s
lin.rt f,r Misimu programs; .11
Solon Asks Probe
iivy lani will brim; the latest "' r:ir. - . V"; Kncle. U Calif., said he will
tin 11IIMII " , , . ,
WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Clair
ask for an investigation bv the
...n i ,.. -
... ,., m-m-ui ,,a, in,-,,,, ever aiis i -,. llf hnsniml
v,":T v"!,"'1 nler the: ' mo maximum: iri"! Armed Services. Commit
m'l.
Secretary of Labor .lames p. eent home care.
Milchell said Thursday lhat com-j '
prnsalion lo survivors of the .Win n rn C!r DontilC
dead, and to Ihe 300 mnued, mav, I 1,350 Fl yenln
go as hih as $s milium. ' ' ip . II C
The first claim ,- ,oa,, bene- Predicted 1 0' U. J.
fll. h:la luinn .......... i " "
monin in ine widow (if
wilh four minor children
" . . i t no ..r ii.a ru.-i. r;.. ...i.;..i.
ii a day for nursing or convaies- - " "
The first payment on this
Constellation and took 50 lives.
i "If half of the things, that Kd
:ard Cavanagb Jr., New York
, City fire commissioner, has said
are true, there was a deplorable
lack of fire control measures in
illie construction of this rosilv and
painleri BOSTON (AP',,'re deaths in important addition to our Navy
Ihe I'nilcd ft'1" "r"'K are i sircnain, r.ngie said in a stale-
M
ruch an approximate : men!.
rap -.i ...
in up iiiaoe nei week, .Mitchell n y.0 Kitionai rue rrolec- l avanagh is among witnesses
said. A special staff from the de ! 0n' A00uiion estimated today. I who have been testifying before
partment's Bureau nf Kmploves ti, ' n'nnnroM. safely education la special naval court 'ino,uirv into
Compensation has been wot king nnnni.JiinB forecast anolher "0.- causes of the fire at the Brookhn
wilh yard officials to exnedile ... ill have been sori-lNavy Yard on Dec. 19.
The fire Dee. 19 on Ihe big a
iin carrier was lie tn-i
ouslv Vniured S "r ,h ""
12 months. , , ...
Destruction ' "'. . '
disaster covered bv the so called w. reach rff0U' f abo1"
"charge back- legislalion lhal , y ,,
was approved by Congress this rL 7nitl',n'' Preliminary
ear. ' ,'-"i,,,ie a fractional in-
I'nder this law. Ihe ,ai,. .... '""""? XT. M fire death rec
paid by ihe ah,,,, ivoan,,,..,,! .? "V". over 1S9. But prop
general funds apniooi iaii-,1 ,1." 'nm'f '' "P harp.
i tie ixavv is i. - than " .
Prospects Promising
PANAMA (AP) President
Roberto Cbiari told a news con
ference Thursday that Panama's
prospects of economic well being
in 1SS1 were promising but not
brilliant. He said his aduimstra
hon is banking on the in'rodiie.
m
from
for Ihe purpose, hut
remiii-..H l.. .......... .
.: " "' -"'"inhale i lie l.ahnri ui.,i
Driai meni hum ... . . ""lie
. "n Minos, he
The law was requested bv .Mitch. i
en to encourage accident nrcven. ii' ".-..iM-"1'"'0 '"" S.600-
lion actiMties hy making federal ,...!Li ,n home'- and about .10 ttons in Washington will
co,i of iob ,n,,c, &- -
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Jim Lxtif .
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SSW ... . mjfSr -f jaJfci. mi
fjAi the New Year, we extend our greetings
and good wishes to you. As the frontiers of
achievement and opportunity move ever outward, may a:i 01 us in this com
munity reach out to a future of greater endeavor... higher accomplishment.
: W figures d! not t ion of texlile and olher new
..ii,hle f"r "nu n,on,n. he dustries for an economic boost.
H ipPr"xlmi"ely half There is an impression, he add
, a..tM-n,",' th3n 5-K ed. that the change in administra-
s. and atwut 30 lions in Washington will mean a
casualties were return to the good neighbor poli
cy.
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