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Publithtd by News-Review Co., Inc., 545 S.E. Main St., Roseburg, Or Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Business Manager Member of the Assosiciated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered is 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 Newi-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Sot., Jan. 7, 1961 FISH WAR THREATENS By Charles V. Stanton It would seem that decks are being: cleared for action in preparation for another round of Oregon's prolonged "fish wars." Being; an old and battle-scarred veteran, I will have trouble, I fear, if I try to sit this one out on the sidelines. It was long my objective to get the gillnet pressure off our dwindling salmon runs before they were complete ly destroyed. We succeeded in eliminating gillnet fishing in all Oregon coastal streams other than the Columbia. But now there's a big argument about regulations on the Columbia. Washington prohibits the taking of steelhead trout com mercially. But Oregon lets gillnet fishermen take Bteel head, Washington spends large sums of money to propa gate steelhead in its tributaries and is very unhappy be cause it contends that Oregon commercial fishermen are profiting from expenditures by Washington sportsmen, while Washington commercial interests are denied the right to take fish propagated in their own state. On the other hand, Washington allows sportsmen to take salmon from the Columbia with virtually no restric tion. But sportsmen in Oregon are very closely regulated, limited to two fish and forced to buy a special salmon li cense. Oregon police arrest Washington fishermen if they get across the center of the stream. Parley Urged The Oregon legislative interim committee on Natural Resources has recommended an attempt to get the two slates to adopt uniform regulations. Gov. Hatfield is seek ing a parley. But there probably must be some radical chanofs before any sort of compromise is reached. The interim committee also recommended a merger of Oregon's Fish Commission and Game Commission, with personnel increased from five to seven. One section would be set up for commercial fishing. The two commissions were created originally because sportsmen felt they were getting a raw deal from the one commission, which they held was controlled by commercial interests. Now we find commercial fishermen fighting the proposed consolidation because they fear sportsmen would hold the upper hand. A real hot issue is in the making in the Medford Grants Pass region where a proposal has been made to build a high dam at Copper Canyon on the Rogue River. Such a dam would stop all fish migrations and would mark the end of the Rogue River as the Pacific Coast's most famed salmon and steelhead stream. Advocates of the high dam, however, ask in effect, "so what? They contend we need power more than we need migratory fish; that trout fishing in the impoundment, boating, water skiing, etc., would be more valuable recrea . tional resource. Umpqua Dam Proposed Then we have a dam proposal closer home. We propose to store water on the South Umpqua River upstream from Tiller, where we would create a large reg ulatory reservoir. The south fork has a tremendous winter runoff, but goes almost dry in summer. Irrigation with drawals considerably exceed the stream's minimum flow. Some people contend that an increase in summertime flow would be beneficial to 'fish life. They claim the stream's fishery is virtually non-existent. "Not so," says Game Commission representatives. They proclaim that the river, once high ranking as a sports stream, can be restored, and that a high dam would be very detrimental. But the need to conserve water for summer time use, the demand for boating and various water sports, coupled with the possibility for improved flood control raises many arguments with which to combat fish conservationists. Then, too, some say that there presently are few fish in the river but a reservoir would insure fishing. But that fishing wouldn't include salmon and steelhead, Game Com mission biologists assert. Thei;e is room for compromise on this Umpqua project, I believe. Migratory fish, under existing plans, would be led into a cul-de-sac in the narrow canyon where the dam would be built. That would mean that migrating fish would die be fore spawning. The Game Commission insists on a fish way. The cost of a f ishway would be enormous and would probably blackball the possibility of a reservoir. But it would be possible, I believe, to select a tribu tary stream below the main dam, and to construct a low dam or racks which would turn fish into the tributary. The tributary then could be improved, given a gravel floor and made suitable for spawning. Cost of diversion, plus creation of spawning grounds in the tributary stream, would be only a fraction of the financial outlay for a fish way over a high dam. Anyway, the "fish war" is threatening. I smell smoke! Mrs. Kennedy Is 'Best-Dressed' On Clothes Designers' Totem Pole NEW YORK (AP)-Mri. John F. Kennedy tops the best-dressed in the world of women's fashions, but her president-elect husband is low man on some clothes design ers' totem pole. The lovely first lady-to-be was elected here this week by the New York Couture Group, Inc., to head the list of the world's 12 best-attired women. Couture annu ally consults some 2,500 style ex perts and society leaders before announcing the winners., As for (he president-elect, his current supply of suits was viewed with some anxiety by members of the International As sociation of Clothing Designers who gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Thursday for their JOlh annual convention. Some opinions on Kennedy's dress: llii coat Innols are of the old fashioned, wide variety. The shoulders of hi) units are much too broad. There are only two buttons on his jacket and the two buttons are too low on the suit. After Mrs. Kennedy, the official 1960 list of best-dressed among the worm s women names the follow ing: Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes of Paris. Mrs. Norman K. Winston, of flew York and Paris. Donna Marclla Agnelli, of Turin, iiaiy. Mrs. loci Guiness, of Paris and raim ucacn. Mrs, Patrick Guiness. of Lau sanne, Switzerland, daughter of airs, i.oci tjuiness. Princess Alexandra of Kent, aaugnicr of the Duchess of Kent Mrs. John Barry Ryan III, of new iom. Mrs. David K. Bruce, of Wash ington. Mrs. Stavrns Niarchos, of Taris and te York. Queen Sirikit of Thtils.net. In The Days News 9 If FRANK JENKINS World verdict on Cuba: Castro's charge that the United States h readying an immediate invasion of us communist-plagued neighbor in the Caribbean reaches the Security Council of United Na tions. The USSR (Russia) votes with Castro. Ceylon and the United Arab Republic abstain from vot ing. Britain, Chile, Nationalist Chi na. Ecuador. France. Liberia and Turkey agree with the United States and vole to discard Cuba's charge that she is facing imme diate invasion from the United States. Meanwhile Castro puts on a big military display to back up his invasion charges. He lines the Mai econ, Havana's beautiful seashore drive, with artillery a lot of which has been brought from Russia. He scatters guns all around his coast line. He alerts his militia. Why is he doing it? Nobody knows why a madman does what he does. But the pre vailing opinion seems to be that he is putting on a show for the Cu banstrying to convince them that the United States really is going to grab them. That makes at 'least a little sense. Most competent observers agree that Castro's greatest dan ger is a rebellion on the part of the Cuban people. His economics aren't working out too well, and the Cubans are getting hungry. But enough of Cuba. Let's change the subject. Mrs. JFK tops the list of the twelve best dressed women in the world. The decision is rendered by an organization known as the New York Couture Group, Inc. NOW who says we're losing world prestige? What of JFK himself? Well, he didn't fare so well. While the New York Couture Group, Inc., was looking over the best dressed women in the world and rendering a verdict, the mem bers of the International Associ ation of Clothing Designers, who are gathered in New York for their 50th annual convention, took a look at the sartorial habits of the President-elect. They weren't much impressed. Here are some of their opinions of JFK's clothes: His coat lapels are of the old fashioned wide variety. The shoulders of his suits are much too broad which is to say that he must have bought 'em back in the days when a lot of padding was THE thing. There are only TWO buttons on his jacket and they are much too low on the suit. It's too bad, of course. But a lot of the men of America will agree that if no worse criti cism ever faces the man who in a couple of weeks more will be Presi dent of the United Slates he will be doing all right. A lot of the rest of us males are wearing out our old clothes, too. Cut In Payroll Withholding Tax Urged As Boost To U.S. Economy WASHINGTON (AP) Organ ized labor advocates cutting pay roll withholding taxes as a quick prod to the nation's purchasing power if unemployment gets much worse. The novel plan was spelled out by AFL-CIO leaders this week as part of a 20-point program recom mended to the incoming Kennedy administration to jerk the econo my out of its present lagging pace. SDecifieallv. the union chiefs proposed that Kennedy be em- powered 10 trigger an income iax cut into effect if the rate of un employment to the work force in creases from its present 6.1 per cent level to 7 per cent or more. This could easily happen this winter with the idle, now oyer 4 million, expected to top 5 million. Under the AFL-Ciu plan, every body would get a $10 a week re duction in his withholding tax payment for a 10-weck period. This means everyone would have an extra $100 to spend. George Meany, AFL-CIO presi dent, said in outlining the proposal that the Dlan would put $500 mil lion a week, or $5 billion over the 10-week period, into hands of con sumers. It has long been a labor union theory that such spending can bail the country out of economic doldrums. However, the executive vice president of U.S. Meel Corp., R. Conrad Cooper, said here Thursday artificial stimulation is not a proper approach. Cooper advocated tax relief for business generally, improved busi ness depreciation allowances and an end to industry's rising cost spiral, including labor costs. Cooper led a steel industry dele gation into a meeting with Presi dent David J. McDonald of the United Steelworkcrs Union, who had invited the session to seek to Bet the half-idle steel industry back into full production. While holh sides rcporica pro- nosing to each other widely vary ing plans for accomplishing tins purpose, there appeared a sur prising degree 01 willingness oy both to engage in further talks and try to reach some solution. Tho union generally proposed what it conceded were pump priming efforts, while the Industry wanted tax relief and reduced costs. McDonald hinted the union might go along with helping the steel firi.is get some tax relief. Court Trial Prompts White-Negro Battle ANNISTON, Ala. (AP)-Fight-ing between while persons and Negroes broke out in front of the Anniston police station here in the wake ol picketing Dy Negro students. Police drew their pistols and moved into the brawl, arresting two Negroes and one white man. Police-rsaid that three or four white persons and one or two Ne groes actually fought while a crowd numbering more than 100 white persons and almost 100 Ne groes looked on. The scuffle was brief, police said. The Neeroes started picketing an hour after a criminal court hearing opened for a while man charged with assault with intent to murder in the reported beating of two Negroes here over the weekend. Soviet Union Pledges Help For Indonesia MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Un ion has pledged itself to help Indonesia take over Dutch-held West New Guinea. The promise was made by First Deputy Premier Anaslas I. Miko yan at a reception given by the Indonesian Embassy for Foreign Minister Subandrio and Gen. Ab dul llaris Nasution, who are in Moscow on an arms-buying mis sion. Premier Khrushchev. looking cheerful and in much better spir its and health than he has been for a long time, stood by as Mi koyan made the pledge. Khrushchev himself made no speech. No mention of arms was made at today's parly and the Russians themselves have been reluctant to back up the Indonesian state ments that they will buy weapons from the Soviet Union. The Needless War Part Four Civil Wars Great Tragedy Was That It Was Needless Editor's Note The greatest tragedy of the Civil War, argues historian Bruce Cation, is that it was not in fact necessary. In this last in a series of articles, he re ports a conversation which indi cates how easily men of reason and good will could have reached a compromise. By BRUCE CATTON Written For The Associated Prti's One of the most tragic things about the coming of the Civil War is the fact that just before the curtain went up two men possib ly without quije realizing it showed how the business might have been settled. Late in February, 1861. 10 days or so before the Lincoln adminis tration took office, William H. Sew ard of New York, who was about to become Lincoln's secretary of state, met at a Washington dinner party with Justice John A. Camp bell of the Supreme Court. Campbell was a good Alabaman, and when Ft. Sumter came under fire he would side with his state. But this night he and Seward, in friendship, discussed the great problem and agreed that the Union ought not to be allowed to break up over the slavery issue. In their talk they said the things that someone ought to have been saying earlier, out in public in the national political conventions, in the presidential campaign, in Congress, or somewhere. Slavery, said Campbell, was a transitory institution; it would in evitably be greatly modified or abandoned altogether in the course of time. Modification in fact was already taking place; for years slavery had been receding in the Upper South, and it was really flourishing now only in the Reader Opinions Grade School Grouping Rapped At Myrtle Creek To The Editor: Moving into the Myrtle Creek School District, after having my children enrolled in the Roseburg School District, attending one school only for the past five years, I would like to ask all parents in the Myrtle Creek District, to ac quaint themselves with the new grouping system which has been installed into the Myrlle Creek grade school as of September of this school year. Mr. Coffenberry. grade school principal said: "This system has been in force for three years, this being the 4th year in the Tri-City School. This is the first year in the Myrlle Creek School." After my visiting the school prin cipal and the local school board, I have learned that the grade school is adopting a new type of class room grouping. Children in the Myrtle Creek School were given the California state test, last May, and placed into a room on reading ability only. Newly enrolled children in the district, were given the test in September, and placed into rooms according to the child's reading ahilitv onlv. Onlv one test was given and children were placed on their ability to reaa in me lone test. There were no other consid erations given to a child, or any other consideration given to any other subject area. Reading abu itv was the decidine factor. I have learned there are three groupings low. average and above average. All children in the three groups are not doing the same work per grade level. I have found out that teachers are not supposed to inform the parent of what group tne cmid is in. i nave found out that all parents are not satisfied with this way of division. I have also found out that all teachers are not sold 100 per cent on the svstem of education. After attending the last school board meeting, 1 assume that the general feeling of that school board meeting was that few parents are complaining, and the teachers are satisfied. The reason the parents may be satisfied with this system of cdu ucation is because the parents are not being informed, and apparent ly the school feels it is unneces sarv to inform the parent. For example if a child is in a low average room, for the child's grade level, the child may be do inn above average work, accord ing to the report card, but actually receiving a failing or below aver age grade according tq the slate grade level. How can a child help itself in a system such as this? In the low The Cartoornst Says: "Easy Battle for This Man's Mind average group of children, I am told that the precentage is low, who rise out of this classification of placement. Tins particular type or grouping (reading ability only), is very new within the State of Oregon, accord ing to information received out of my attendance at the school board meeting. 1 his area is the only area practicing it. Grouping ability is being practiced, which is a fine advancement in education, but gen erally speaking this takes in a much wider scope of education. According to the child's ability, children are grouped to subjects in all areas, not just to one skill only and making the child con form to all subjects, according to tne one skim. This hardly seems an advance ment to me, because few people do all things well even in the classroom. Mrs. Irene G. Boehm P.O. Box 552 Myrlle Creek, Oregon ' Fisherman Says Salmon Limited In S. Umpqua . To The Editor: It seems there is some opposi tion to a dam on the South Ump qua in the Tiller neighborhood. The argument is being based on the claim that such a dam would ruin the "salmon run" on this stream. Just what "salmon run" is meant? It is claimed that many thousand silvers migrate up this stagnant stream to spawn. We may oe lar wrong, but we always thought silvers migrated and spawned in the fall of the year Also that hot water was death to them and their offspring. In the tali the water in the South Ump qua, what little there is, is certain ly not too favorable to a fish run, if this theory is correct. Also, the water gets so still that it is doubtful if there is enough oxygen to support game fish, such as salmon and steelhead. Of course, we don't know from noth ing about fish. It has been so long since we ever even tried to fish in the South river due lo the long time between bites, let alone catch es, we have forgotten how it would seem. For that matter, we don't seem to recall anybody else catching any silvers or any other kind of salmon for many years. When we first migrated to Douglas County in 1928 there was great salmon and steelhead fishing in both forks of the river. But we have seen this fine stream dwindle from those days to its present trickle of dead water. We wonder if any self-respecting salmon would be caught dead trying to spawn there! But assuming that there is still a "salmon run." these fish are going over dams in other rivers. And the biggest benefit from this dam would he in flood control, ir rigation, and recreation. It seems that saving a lot of people from damaged homes would offset the benefit accruing from the few fish that go above Tiller to spawn. The added benefit of thousands of acres of irrigated land would help the economy of Douglas County. And, in conclusion, if anybody knows where there's a chance to calch a silver in the South Ump qua, please let this poor old fisher man know where it is. We'll keep it secret, just for the chance to catch one again. Glen Wellman 1086 N.E, Walnut Roseburg, Ore. rich plantation area of the Deep South. There slavery was thriving, &nd it perhaps would be 25 years before that area's expanding needs for slave labor were fully met. Seward interrupted him here to remark: "Say 50 years." Very well: 50 years, in all, before the institution would have reached the limit of its development. Mean while, said Campbell, the most the slavery group could ask was the continued protection of slavery in the states where it already existed. In .the territories the battle was lost New Mexico, for instance, had been open to slave immigration for a full decade and only 29 slaves had been taken there. Again Seward interrupted: "Only 24, sir." Twenty four, in 10 years, under full protection of the laws. Was there any sense, asked Jus tice Campbell, in letting the Union be destroyed over the question of slavery in the territories when slav ery obviously was not eoine to es tablish itself in the territories in any case? Seward agreed that there was not. Now this talk ended in nothing better than friendly agreement be tween the Northerner and the Southerner over an after-dinner brandy. But can anyone doubt that if talk of that kind had been car ried on openly, in convention and on the political stump and in news paper columns, over the years, the tragic break-up of the Union might have been averted? Two men, one from Alabama and one from New York, talking unemotionally in a drawing room could so easily agree that the is sue could and should be handled; could agree that the very cause of the dispute was itself dying and would, if men approached it reasonably, presently reduce itself to manageable size. Was it not in cumbent, somewhere along the line, on responsible leaders, politi cians, editors and plain citizens to have said the same thing in pub lic? That is what our democratic ma chinery is for. It gives us the chance to handle problems which, left to the emotions, become un manageable. The nation's enduring tragedy is that in 1860 and 1861 that machinery was not used. We have only this haunting record of a conversation between Seward and Campbell to remind us of what might have been done. Make no mistake about that: The American Civil War was not the "irrepressible conflict." It need not have taken place. It set tled nothing that reasonable men of good will could not have settled if they had been willing to make the effort. The record of the war has had a variety of meanings. Its most tragic meaning of all is that 600,000 young men lost their lives because their elders had been unwilling to meet a decisive issue with reason and forebearance. S. F. Skid Row Hotel Fire Kills 19, Injures 38 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An open, inside stairway that acted as a chimney was blamed today for the swift spread of the Fri day morning fire which gutted a cheap hotel midway between the downtown shopping district and skid row, killing 19 and injuring 38. Albert Hayes, head of the city's fire investigators, said the stairway near the back of the ancient Thomas Hotel at 971 Mis sion St. could not be closed off from the rest of the hotel because it had no fire doors. When the fire started in the mattress of a pensioner, Raymond T. Gorman, 61, whose room was near the foot of the stairway, it roared up through the stairway to all five floors. Present fire safety laws are not retroaclive and provide no meant of forcing the owners of old build ings to correct fire hazards, Hayes said. Gorman, only slightly injured, was booked by police on a charge of suspicion of manslaughter. They said another occupant had put out one fire in Gorman's mattress earlier in the night. Gorman de nied he had been smoking in bed. The fire which broke out at 5 a.m. roared up through the tenement-like squalor where 135 peo ple had been living some for many years in the threadbare anonymity of the poor, the pen sioned, the crippled. Police said that in some rooms they found several bodies where the hotel's register showed only one person staying indicating that the elderly occupants had in vited their friends from skid row in out of one of the coldest nights here in recent history. The ther mometer stood at 36. 'Yeti' Scalp Returned To Khamjung Monastery KATMANDU, Nepal (AP)-The "yeti" scalp got back to the Khamjung monaster on the prom ised day after being taken on a 30,000-mile round-the-world trip by skeptical Western explorers. A U.S. helicopter carried the scalp and Mt. Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary here. He had borrowed it from villagers for a one-month inspection by experts to determine if it came from a yeti, the legendary "abominable snowman" of the Himalayas. The Western experts agreed the scalp was ancient but they dis counted its connection with the elusive yeti. Rate Hike Granted SALEM (AP) Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. HiU has granted rate increases to motor carriers transporting household goods in cities other than Port land. The increase is the first granted to the carriers in two years, Hill said. US Army Has The 'Law' To Hurl Against Tanks WASHINGTON (AD The Army will have the law to hurl against onrushing tanks. "Law" lightweight antitank weapon is the unofficial name of a new featherweight rocket dis played thii week. A single soldier can carry it in clusters like a quiver of arrows. Army ordnance experts say there isn't a known tank that would not be knocked out by "Law." The complete unit rocket and launcher weighs only 4' pounds and has a punch equal to the 3.5 inch Bazooka which weighs 13 pounds and requires two men to handle. Barge Traffic Up PORTLAND (AP) - Barge traffic increased on the Columbia River last year, mounting IS per cent at Bonneville Dam and 26 per cent at The Dalles, Army Engineers reported here. Traffic in log rafts and pulp aid paper products was up 1 per i cent at tne nrcgon t.ity locks on I the Willamette River. CHARLES DYSERT Estate Ranch Sale 650 ACRES CULTIVATED, GRAZING AND TIMBER - YOUR CHOICE CATTLE ANDOR EQUIPMENT This 650 acre ranch located on the old Coos Bay Wagon Road about 13 easy miles from Roseburg includes cultivated, grazing and timber land. The ranch (without timber) hoi been appraised for $18,997. and tho timber at $12,692. Tho timber crime does not include young growing trees considered reforestation growth. The timber was cruised by Witford N. Hoines of Drain, Oregon. This cruise shows footage of 967 M feet. The ranch (excluding timber) was appraised by Wesley Meredith, Arthur H. Marsh and C. E. Nay, all of Route 4, Roseburg, Oregon. Ranch buildings include a residence, one good barn, one old barn, double garage and a machine shed. The ranch has a creek and good gravity flow spring furnishing domestic and irrigation water. Two farm ponds have been recently built. The heirs desire to sell this ranch ar privata sole to the highest and best bidder. They and the executor reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Cash bid may be best, but a higher bid with satisfactory down payment, installment terme and interest rate will be considered. For cash bids a reasonable time (about six weeks) will be allowed to arrange any needed financing. Alternate bids can be given to include: a. All real estate which includes timber b. All real estate without timber c. Any combination of the above with or with out all or part of the cattle and all er part of the equipment. (Cattle and equipment are not included in above appraisal figures.) The properties will be shown to prospective buyer by Corvin Heard, who now resides en the ranch during probate work. The cruise sheets can be examined in the office of George Luoma. Further deteils concerning the properties con be obtained from the Eiecutor Corvin Heard, moiling address: Route 4, Box 1185, Roseburg., Oregon, telephone: ORchard 3-7924, or from the attorney for the estele and eiecutor George Luoma, Umpqua Sav ings and Lean Building, Roseburg, Oregon, telephone: ORcherd 3-6641. Bids should be submitted by February 25, 1961. They can be delivered or mailed to either Corvin Heard or George Luoma. All bids should be in writing, in sealed envelopes.
