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FOUR LANE ROADS
By Charles V. Stanton
Driving home from Salem a few days aj?o I gathered
increased appreciation for our new four-lane highways.
It was extremely foggy. Despite the fog, however, one
could drive at a reasonable upeed without danger. Slow
traffic moved on the right hand lane. As all traffic was
in the same direction, it was possible to pass a slow car
by moving to the left, even though visibility was limited.
But passing on a two-lane section of the highway was
impossible, without taking chances that easily could prove
fatal.
On two-lane roads one frequently comes upon the tim
id driver on a foggy day. He
ing to pierce the fog blanket. He grips the steering wheel
with tense application, while constantly anticipating a
crashing collision. Perspiration streams down his face
as he exposes himself to the danger of a 25-mile-an-hour
speed, while traffic piles up two or three miles behind, no
one daring to around.
Then someone, impatient with the pace of the slow and
frightened leader of the pack, takes a chance he can get
. around the traffic ahead of him and winds up in the
morgue.
Quite often the slow and timid driver is far more dan
gerous, to traffic than is the faster driver, unless the latter
is overly impatient.
Highways Overcrowded
But the four-lane road gives opportunity for the faster
driver to go' around slow-moving trucks and frightened,
timid drivers. .
When our Highway 99 is four-laiied throughout its en
tire distance I predict a great reduction in the number
of traffic accidents.
Much of our traffic toll today results from overcrowd
ing. ,-. Speed, in itself, is not a cause of accidents, in my
opinion. True, an accident at high speed is more apt to
produce fatalities than one at low speed, but seldom docs
speed cause an accident.' All too many accidents result
because drivers fail to take into consideration the nature
of the roadway upon which
ume of traffic of which they
This is proven, I believe, by the great number of ac
cidents occurring on county roads and within a few miles
of the highway. :;
Drivers negotiate the highway at a comparatively high
speed. Their reflexes become attuned to the speed at
which they are driving.
Then they turn off on a
a paved road, but it has a
ture than the highway. It
is less. And, as a result we read of any number of one
car accidents in which the driver hasn't reduced speed
to conform to road conditions.
Multicar Wrecks
Another evidence of the overcrowded condition of our
highways is found in the great , number of multicar ac
cidents. It will be noted that off the highway we generally have
one-car accidents. The driver loses control because of poor
road surface, tries to go around a curve at a high rale
of speed, or loses control on a slick spot and slides into
the ditch.
But on the highway you will observe that an accident
usually involves two or more cars. Often we read of rear
end collisions. Cars are bunched on a two-lane road be
cause of a slow vehicle. If a person tries to obey the
rules and leave enough room between himself and the car
ahead for driving safety, some other car continually push
es into the gap. Then, if something happens up ahead,
there isn't stopping room and a rear-end collision happens.
Or, perhaps, some driver, unable to control his impatience,
takes a chance, pulls out and meets an oncoming car,
whereupon several following cars pile into the wreckage.
Such accidents aren't apt to be too numerous on four
lane roads. Consequently the roads quickly pay for them
selves by the saving in property damage, not counting lives
and injuries.
Here in Oregon, where we have a great deal of low fog
in winter months, we have good reason to appreciate driv
ing conditions made possible by the more modern construc
tion of our highways.
Hal Boyle
Hate's OK If You Are Able
To Resolve It Into Love
NEW YORK (AP) "Hale is
ttl right if you know how lo re
solve it into love, but it will kill
you If you have to live with it,"
said playwright Arthur Miller.
After separating two months
'o from hit actress wife, Marilvn
i.onroe, Miller moved into a hotel
suite,
On a table in (lie living room
retta tht published script of a
movie he wrote, enstarring Miss
Monroe, Clark Gable and Mont
gomery Clift. Oiiijinallv a short
story, it Is based on material Mil
ler gained during a stay in Reno,
where he obtained a divorce from
his fust wife before marrying
Marilyn in 19A6.
The npw hnnc vjtt-ainn ll.i.
dedication: "To Clark Gable, who!
did not know how to hate." !
"Actually, Clark did know how!
lo hale." said Miller, -but in a I
short lime it was dissolved. He,
was wonderfully po.ine man.!
"Clark rnuM kn ih ktn. i
so well. I never knew anyone like
him.
Miller, i lanky man with fur
rowed I.incolnesque features that
crinkle often in a friendlv gun,
worked as a slock clerk lo earn
money to go to college. He wrote
his first play at 18. turned out 10
failures before clicking with "All
My Sons" in 1!M7.
The dramatist, who won a Pulit
zer Pri u-iih I,nath nr c.u.
man," quit Hollywood because "l;
Ore. Tues., Jon, 10, 1961
stares fixedly ahead, striv
they are driving and the vol
are a part.
county road. It is probably
much higher degree of curv
is a two-lane road. Visibility
couldn't stand anyone looking over
my shoulder." He finds writing a
lonely but rewarding life.
"The greatest pleasure anyone
can have is lo create something
beautiful."
Miller says he isn't sure what
his philosophy is or even that
he has one.
"I follow my nose in a situa
tion." he said. "I hope I'm a
rivilired man and that's about
as far as 1 can go.
"1 think we know a great deal
about everything except how to
live together, and I suppose my
plays are an attempt to uneartir
what is preventing us from doing
that.
"We've developed a world which
is great for everybody hut peo
ple. It produces a lot of goods,
but it doesn't let people flower
and realire themselves "
Asked his opinion of (he currenl
American theater, he said
crisply: "It stinks. It's in a by
way. "It isn't dealing with the cogent
theme of our tunes, the problem
we are all up against. That prob
loin is the dilemma between in
dividualism that ran heroine an
archy and conformity that can
turn us all into human ciphers
"It is not enough any longer
merely to decry conformism or
exalt individualism
"We have to create t new sland
aid of values to accommodate
ourselves to this dilemma." ,
In The Days News
ty FRANK
From Washington:
A nation once torn asunder by a
civil war opened the 100th anni
versary of that tragic era Sunday
with solemn pageantry alhd pray
er. One theme was dominant in
these opening ceremonies of our
Civil War Centennial:
Our nation has been able to RE
UNITE itself after the war.
A solemn thought:
Suppose our nation HADN'T been
able to reunite itself alter these
four years of bloody war.
In that event, this nation of ours
wouldn't now be the UNITED
States of America, one nation, in
divisible, with liberty and justice
for all. At the very least, it would
he TWO nations. It is highly prob
able that if our nation HADN'T
been able to reunite itself after the
Civil War the area that is now
the United States of America would
be broken up into -an unpredict
able number of small nations,
somewhat comparable to Europe.
We sometimes think that things
are in a mess. But WHAT A MESS
it would have been if that had
happened.
Why Sunday. January 8. as the
opening date of our Civil War Cen
tennial, when the actual shooting
start of the war didn't come until
three months later, when Confed
James Marlow
Hagerty Ends Long Service
As President's Eyes, Ears
WASHINGTON (AP) For eight'
years a lake-charge man with mg
eyeglasses and more than enough
chin did an cxlraordinary job of
making his boss, the President of
the United Mates, look good.
Now James C. Hagerty, Presi
dent Eisenhower's press secretary
with a beaut of a temper and so
much self-assurance he could hold
a surplus sale, is leaving.
When he turned in his resigna
tion, Eisenhower said he had been
invaluable. And indeed he was.
Eisenhower admittedly didn't do
much newspaper reading. Hagerty
a 51-year-old grandfather and for
mer newspaperman, was to a
large extent the President's eyes
and ears.
He was more than that. He not
only was a buffer between the
President and the press to a de
gree unmatched in this century,
he was also Eisenhower's mouth
piece. But he was no blabbermouth.
He never got his devotion to news
mixed up with his loyalty to Ei
senhower. He never said anything
to embarrass his boss. He didn't
make slips.
Hagerty was a master of two
things which a lot of press rela
tions men never learn: He paid
attention to details and informed
himself on problems he had to
handle.
Seem simple? It's amazing how
many people in Washington don't
do cither.
In time Hagerty became Eisen
hower's scout, a kind of private
emissary, who went ahead of the
1'residcnt when he planned a trip
abroad and arranged for his safe
ty and convenience.
He became such a strong and
established figure in the group
around Eisenhower that he was
almost certainly an advisor on
policy.
llagerly was unchallenged wilh-
Friars Club In Tribute
lo Famed Western Actor
HOLLYWOOD (AP)-Hundieds
of celebrities turned out Sunday
night as Ihe Friars Club paid
tribute to Gary Cooper.
1 tie lanky actor was honoved
for his 30 years in the lu-ition
picture business by the Enter
tainers Fraternal Organization.
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin
were co-chairmen of ihe testi
monial dinner at Ihe Beverly llil-jthe
tun Hotel.
The Cartoonist
JENKINS
erate troops shelled Fort Sumter
in the harbor of Charleston,
South Carolina?
The answer is that President Ei
senhower chose the Star of the
West incident as the dite for the
opening, of the Centennial. The
Star of (he West was a Union sup
ply ship en route to Fort Sumter
with supplies designed to strength
en the federal forces there. Jt was
fired on by South Carolina cadets
and turned around and returned to
its base in the north.
At the time of the Star of the
West incident, South Carolina was
alone in secession. 11 nad taken
the bull by the horns, had with
drawn from the Union and had
set itself up as an independent re
public. Its ordinance of secession
was adopted on December 20, 1860.
The shelling of Fort Sumter start
ed on April 12, 1861.
How did it all happen?
The answer is tragically simple.
THE HOTHEADS TOOK CON
TROL. The lesson of it all?.
We mustn't EVER AGAIN, no
matter what the provocation, per
mit the hotheads lo gain control
and push us into tragic decisions
that could be avoided by giving
more time to cooler heads.
in the administration as emperor
of his special domain from the
time he took charge of the news
about Eisenhower's heart attack
in 1955.
" His forthrightness in keeping the
country informed at that critical
time was widely admired. He
seemed a lot less forthright when
Eisenhower had his ileitis opera
tion. Hagerty's attention to detail
goes away back beyond the time
he went to work in the White
House. He was press secretary to
New York's Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey when the latter ran for
the presidency in 1944 and 1948.
He was a tough, efficient opera
tor then. Dewey turned him over
to Eisenhower when the general
became a candidate. As it turned
out, this was one of the best
things Dewey did for Eisenhower.
Now Hagerty goes to the Amer
ican Broadcasting Company as
vice president to build tip its news
reporting. He succeeds John Daly.
Unlike Daly who did broadcast
ing himself, Hagerty will stay out
of sight, try to build up a staff,
and let the staff do the talking.
Not talking will be a switch for
him.
Sawmill Fir Statistics
For 1960 Made Public
Douglas fir region sawmill pro
duction, orders and shipments for
December were reported by the
West Coast Lumbermen's Associa
tion, with the production down
from 1955-59.
The weekly average of West
Coast lumber production in Decem
ber was 120,925.000 board feet or
73.8 per cent of the 1955-59 aver-
age. Orders averaged 123,922,000
hoard feel; shipments 129,191,000
board feet; weekly averages for
November were production 130.-
685,000 board feel, 79.8 per cent
of the 1955-59 average; orders 133,
118.000 board feet; shipments 130,
792.000 hoard feet.
Twelve months of the 19H0 cumu
lative production 7,966.680.000 board
feet: 12 months of 1959. 8.468.376.-
000 board feet: 12 months of 1958,
8,012.982.000 board feet
Orders for twelve months of 1960 '
break down as follows: Rail and;
Truck 5,4.r)7 ,097 ,000 hoard feet; Do-
mesne Cargo 1.4.i0. 394,000 board i
fcet; Export 334,863,000 board feel; vestigation bv the grand jurv.
Local .159,244,000 board feet. I Warrants for the arrest of Rob
The industry's unfilled order file lertson and Brvant were issued bv
stood at 421.100.000 board feet at I the Benton County sheriffs office
end of December, lumber in-j
ventory at 1.086.052,000 hoprd feet. 1
Says:
The Old Philosopher
V r r it
Reader
Teen-Agers' Attitude
Puzzling To Reader
To The Editor:
Perhaps you can enlighten me.
I am puzzled, and wonder just
what some of the teen age popula
tion wants. i
The old cry is heard again
no place to go nothing to do.
I'D admit I'm way past the teen
age stage, so maybe I have lost
touch with the needs of youngsters.
There are several places to go
and things lo do that I should
think a teenager would enjoy.
Roseburg has a bowling alley, a
skating rink, swimming pool, the
atres, sponsored car clubs, dances,
two nice parks for weiner roasts
and picnics. There are lodges for
young people, also Scout and
Campfire groups; and every
church has a youth group that
has parties and activities.
The people of Roseburg are in
the process of building a "Y" that
is costing thousands of dollars,
primarily to be used by the young
sters. With all this, plus schoolwork,
helping around the home, part
time iobs. volunteer work. etc.
this is not enough? How I'd like
to share their energy!
Carol Berrow, in Friday's pa
per, asked if we adults were once
teenagers. Yes, of course we were,
and in my hometown we had far
fewer advantages than Roseburg
offers. I'm not suggesting that
what was good enough for me is
good enough for all generations
to come; however we managed
to enjoy ourselves and with very
little spending money in those de
pression days.
We went on hikes, hayrides.
church and school parties, and in
those days before TV, we read
considerably.
Of course, we weren't allowed
to be out four nights a week, as
Carol suggests, so we had a lesser
problem. Also, we were required
to be home earlier and we walked
everywhere we went. This of
course look up time we didn't
have to worry about filling. We
were lucky to get out two nights
a week so we didn't ponder on
where we could go. Our problem
was lo make a choice of what we
wanted to do most.
We got together and made can
dy, popped popcorn, sang the pop
ular songs of the day, and visited.
Slumber parties were popular with
the girls. For mixed parties we
danced to the radio, played games
and had fun or we thought so.
We bad fewer conveniences in!
those days, and were required to
do much more work around home
than the teenager today, ho. in
that we tiad another advantage
we had' less free time to worry
about.
On our five nights a week at
home we did homework, wrote
letters, (stayed on the phone as
long as! . we were allowed (just
like todly) listened to the radio,
worked I puzzles, played games
with the family, and read.
Is this! too dull for today?
I feel most teenagers are busy
and fairly content; but I truly
Charges Dismissed
Against Students
EUGENE (AP) Assault
charges against two University of
Oregon students have been dis
missed following a prelimini ry
healing in Benton County District
Court at Corvallis.
Nick J. Robertson, 20, F.ugene,
and Thomas E. Bryant. 20. Seat
tle, had been accused of striking
an Oregon Slate College student
with a bar during a UO-OSC foot
ball game Nov. 19.
Judne Robert Gilliland Fridav
dismissed chareps nf assault with
a dangerous weapon on the
ground there was not sufficient
evidence to ho d the two for in-
Dec
16. The two denied being
involved.
Opinions
I feel sorry for those who can't
seem to fill their time.
Why can't the teenagers enter-1 nil d S(aes necd not pav si.867,
tain their friends at home? M:itr Hamo fnr cancelation of
homes have a family room, play (he controversial Dixon Yates
room or someplace suitable iniprR,er pant coniract.
which lo visit with their friends, j chief Justice Warren delivered
Most parents give the youngsters y,e 6.3 decision
a reasonable amount of privacy. Justjce llaran wrote a dissent
I really don t understand tlie , ; , opinion in wnich justices Whit
dissatisfaction and complaints "I taker and Stewart joined.
uuimiis iu uu no piace lo go.
Even though the complainersl
are in the minority, it is alarming
that there are those who seem, to
threaten entertain us or we ll
be delinquents.
Do I have the wrong slant?
Mrs. W. L. Evans
490 Sterling Dr.
Roseburg, Ore. '
Teen-Agers Seek Place
To Dance, Have Fun
To The Editors:
We 'have been receiving letters
in response to those of the la-.t
few days in Readers Opinions.
Some seem to think that we of the
younger clan don't want to do
anything unless we can also drink.
This isn't the case at all. Some
of us are old enough we 'can sit
in nno nf lh ln.l 1.,,.,.. k..-
with our parents if that's what . Adolphc Wenzcll, a New York
we want. ' investment banker, served as con-
U'p liL-p in not inonihor ,iii, nl,,!suUant to the Budget Bureau dur-
friends and dance, etc.
inn.ie ..j
All younger people shouldn't be,lhe t,lme' h,e ,VS0 Twas,
judged by what the minority does. President of the i irst
we aon i say mat all adults are
bad because some forty-five year
old man commits a crime. As !o
bowling and skating, they are fine,
we love it, but the skating rink
is packed with children and the
bowling alley has league play five
or six nights a week.
Were not looking for sympathy,
just suggestions and help "from ourisaSe, remarks in the darndest plac
parents to help us find good clean
fun.
How about putting addresses on
those letters we're getting, so we
will know whence our support or
argument is coming. We are anx
ious to hear all views.
Barbara Davis
205 S. E. Lane
Roseburg, Oregon
J-C's Seek Opinions
On Mount Nebo Cross
To The Editor:
On behalf of the Roseburg Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce. I
would like to make a plea tj all
parents to explain the significance
of the Cross on Mour.t Nebo lo
their children lo combat the van
dalism of the Cross. For the mist
two years the neon 'ubes have
been broken out
We would like lo exnress sincere
thanks to Roseburg Neon for re
placing the tubes !)oth years at
their own expense. '
we would appreciate all who
would advise us of their opinions j
on whether the cross should oe lit
all year, not at all, or just during:
tne Lnnstian holidays (Christmas,
and Easter).
Ralph John
Committee Chairman
Route 4, Box 71
Roseburg, Oregon
ROSEBURG
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Government Held Not Liable
On Dixon-Yates Power Pact
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Su
preme Court nas aeciuen ine
Th. ,rihunal ru ed on a eovern
ment appeai from a decision by
.the U.S. Court of Claims, award
ing the amount to the Dixon-Yates
combine for its expenditures on
the project before President Ei
senhower canceled the contract in
1955.
Signed in 1954. the coniract
touched off a fieht between pri
vate and public power interests in
the Tennessee valley Authority
area. The argument became a
political issue, and there was a
congressional investigation.
J. Lee Rankin, U.S. solicitor
general, argued before the Su
preme Court that the contract was
unenforceable and the government
was not liable because of a con
flict of interest on the part of one
of those taking part for the
I government in negotiations for thejsion and the Dixon-Yates group.
I contract
line nart of the negotiations. At
'"8 Part of thc. negotiations.
vice
Boston
Editorial
FOREIGN AID
Ashland Tidings
Sometimes you see and
hear
es. Like this morning when I was
reading a comic strip. One fellow
was reading a paper and said lo
the other: "I see by the paper
where the United States has given
82 billion dollars to foreign coun
tries since the war." The other
fellow pondered for a moment and
remarked: "How do you go about
starling a foreign country?"
During the past few months lit
terally dozens of new nations have
run their colors up the flagpole,
mostly in Africa. And, apparently,
most if not all of them have al
ready found the money order
blanks filled out and waiting.
1 wonder if we -will ever learn
i that we cannot buy popularity and
friendship around the world. Like
a big spender in a saloon, we
seem to be popular as long as the
money horns out. But secretly de
spised because of our ostentation.
If we don't shovel money into
improvished countries we are
branded as Uncle Shylock. And if
we do we are "rich colonists
seeking to buy up nations. If we:
send foreien countries arms, we
are branded as warmongers. And
quite often we see the guns we
sent being used to best advantage
by the Communists. It we send
wheat from our towering surplus
as gifts to starving people we dis-as foreign aid is concerned, pcr
rupt the whole economy of friendly haps we ought to adopt this classic
Canada by lowering the price of I tactic. For I am sure most of us
grain in world markets. If we send 'are in doubt.
(J50
fy
"Speaking for our entire staff, it was a pleasure '
to greet the many folks who attended the
grand opening of our new Roseburg Branch
building last Saturday.
'"c hope that you enjoyed your visit . . ,
and invite you to use the complete and
modern banking facilities that arc
provided here for you."
Harold E. Schmeer
Manager
BRANCH
Slrtef
FREE PARKING
Corp., which eventually became
interested in the financing of the
power plant.
Counsel for Dixon-Yates told the
high court that Dixon-Yates early
in (he negotiations had called at
tention to a possible conflict of
interest and suggested that Wen
zell withdraw but the government
permitted Wenzcll to continue.
There was no agreement or under
standing, the counsel said, that
' Dixon-Yates would go lo First
Boston for its financing.
In making a claim against the
government, the combine said it
sought only to recover out-ot-pocket
costs.
Warren, for the court majorily,
said the government may disaf
firm a contract which is lnfect-
! ed by an illegal conflict of inter
ests
Warren added that the puhlic
interest "requires nonenforce
ment" of the contract.
He added that this is true "even
though the conflict of interest
was caused or condoned by high
government officials."
A contract for a steam plant at
West Memphis, Ark., was signed
by the Atomic Energy Commis-
formally known as the Mississippi
Vallev Generating Co. Later the
city of Memphis decided to build
its own plant. In canceling the
Di::on-Yates contract. Eisenhower
! said the city's decision ended the
necd for a private plant.
Comment
aid in Ihe form of engineers and
technicians they promply set up
factories which, with lower labor
costs, soon are producing in com
petition with U.S. factories. Caus
ing great unemployment in this
country such as we are now wit
nessing in the steel mills.
I do not pretend to know the
answer but 1 do know that the
foreign aid program as we now
know it does not work.
It was started by the Democrats
and continued by the Republicans
and neither party could make the
system tick.
We have been told that foreign
aid is necessary to keep the na
tions of the world from falling
under domination of Communism.
I don't have statistics on hand
but I'll bet we have lost more
countries to Communism since the
foreign aid program was started
than were lost during the last 50
years before it. Maybe Ihe foreign
aid program as sw'n didn't cause
these countries to hit the Primrose
Palh. But it surely didn't keep
them from it either. And we're out
82 billion dollars. Which, friends.
is being taken out ot your paycheck
and mine every week of the year.
i There is an old Navv adase
i which is always repeated to young
! officers about to stand their first
'deck watches which goes as fol-
lows: When in douht run in cir-
cles, scream and shout." As far
fnfrrt! D,oi,l Innnct Ccrponticn