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Newspaper Page TextPubliihtd by News-Review Co., Inc., Charles V. Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Buiintst Manager Member of the Associated Press, Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Roseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rales on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, WOMEN By Charles Women in the Roseburg way toward organization of a League of Women Voters. Spearheading the organizational work are several women who have had previous experience with the League. They feel the need to extend the Beyond any question the ter of the League of Women desired. The efforts of those to be commended. Far be it from me, as a thing Women say and do. When did any man ever agree entirely with any woman or (and this is an apt question) what good did disagreement do him? The male argument is that women generally aren't in formed and all too frequently make up their minds on a basis of prejudice or intuition. No arrogant male, how ever, will be able to make that statement truthfully about women active in the League of Women Voters. Although we've had woman suffrage for a long time, it has been only in late years that women have organized for the purpose of doing their own studying. They've pre viously had the benefit of advice and instructions from fa thers and husbands, and even sons. They've read their newspapers, but all too often they've simply agreed with the rest of the family. , Politics Studied It used to be that the husband could tell his wife all about politics. She, if really interested in doing a good job as a voter, could ask him questions and inform herself as best she could. But the husband took the lead. No more!. Women are taking over politics, and they're doing it from a studied position. While some of them doubt less still have the feminine answer, "because," for their ac tions in the political field, a great many of the members of the League of Oregon Voters can tell their menfolk the facts- of life as they pertain to election issues and candi dates. '-; ' The League is established as a non-partisan organization simply for study. The women seek diligently to gather in formation from all possible sources. "'They conduct studies into various controversial issues. , They seek to know the facts. That they don't always reach the same conclusions from studies of identical facts is one reason a representa tive republic is a good form of government. Good govern ment demands differences of mands compromise, for compromise prevents extremes in either direction. ' So it is conducive to good government that different philosophies may arise from identical facts. The main thing is that every voter should be Informed. Influence Shown When any voter, or any group of voters, seeks to base a decision on facts, and will diligently seek out facts upon which a decision may rest, we need have no fear for good government. Our big problem today is that all too many voters are voting without consideration of the facts. Too many voters are allowing themselves to be swayed by emotion, by self ishness, by propaganda, by demagoguery rather than by a careful analysis of records, situations, history. Not all emotion can be taken out of elections. People still are human beings and, as human beings, much of their conduct will be directed by emotions. Too, emotions often are affected by prejudice and selfishness. No matter how ' much study and analysis may be given the issues of politics and government, the human element still will remain an im portant factor. But we can't discount the importance of an informed electorate. We can't discount the value of a thorough understanding of questions which must come be fore us as voters. So our male prerogative of being the boss of our wom enfolk when election day rolls around seems to be disap pearing. And one reason it is disappearing is that the wom en are doing more than we men to make themselves good, qualified voters. ' And more power to theml Tammany Chief Asked To Quit NEW YORK (AP)-Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner has demanded that Carmine G. He Sapio resign JFK Proves Tories 'Sham' Says Briton DUDLEY, England (AP) -Rlcli ard Crossman, chairman of Brit ain'a Labor party, asserted to nicht President KpnnpHv ham nv. posed the public attitude of the v.onscrvauve government as a sham. "Everything he has said and done during his first few days in in wnnc uouse, Crossman told a Labor Party meeting, "has torn to tatters the British Tories' cloak of complacency. "While Prime Minister Macmil Ian continues blandly to assert that we are winning the cold war, Mr. Kennedy frankly admits that we are losing it fast and that worse is to come before his new measures can be expected to turn the tide. "Mr. Mactnillan is blind to the fact that the North Atlantic Trea ty Organiiation is breaking up. Mr. Kennedy honestly states that the Western Alliance is in dis array and needs new policies and new leadership. 1 "H is the same slorv on the home front. Mr. Marmillan still assures us that we can be proud of the health of our economy and conlent with its rate of growth. "Mr. Kennedy, however, is launching a strenuous program designed to restore a fully em ployed and rapidly expanded American economy, and to elimi nate the great patches of poverty that still mar its prosperity." 545 S.E. Main St., Ronburg, Ort. Stanton Oregon Newspaper Publishers Ore. Sat., Feb. 4, 1961 VOTERS V. Stanton area appear to be well on the activity into thi3 area. formation of a Koseburg Chap Voters is to be most earnestly pioneering in this project are man, to say I agree with every even a group of women? But opinion,' Good government de as leader of Tammany Hall, the New York County Democratic or ganization, for the good of the party. The mayor had split openly last week with De Sapio, whose ouster is being sought by an insurgent wing of the party, headed by for mcr Sen. Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt. They contend that De Sapio symbollies bossism. "No," said De Sapio when news men asked him if he would resign. He deplored what he called Wagner's "unfortunate captivity," an apparent reference to the in surgent group. Wagner generally is expected to seek re election this fall, Do Sapio's stand foreshadowed an intensified battle between the organization and insurgent fac tions of the party in the state. "The nrpint Iabap nt ii,a K', York County Democratic organi sation is enner unwilling or un able to follow the Democratic pro cedures which I regard as essen tial tn pffppliv anH nu,-fv,atril political leadership," Wagner said Btaii-mciih lasui-u ai uy nail. Wagner said the time has come flir I)n Sflniil "tn i1n mtitim In fh interest of the Democratic party and a vast majority of its mem bers in this country." RECEIVI AWARDS BAKER (AP) John MrC'or- mlck, the blind chairman of the f.agle Valley So Conservation District, and his wife will receive one of two "Man and Woman of the Year" awards to be presented at the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts convention in Memphis, Tenn., Feb, t. In The Day s News y FRANK The Salem Statesman reports that the Elsinore Theater in its town "has been the focal point of a traffic jam this past weekend that must rival the great days of movie attendance B.T. (before tele vision). The theater has been pack ed at every showing with custom ers lining up for mocks and in some cases waiting an hour or more to get in. Walt Disney's 'Swiss Family Robinson' is caus this sudden outpouring of movie fans." That's good news. When the clean story of a clean hard-working family that is shipwrecked on a "remote tropical island and by in genuity and hard work creates for itself a pleasant and rewarding way of life can line the customers up for blocks and interest them so deeply that they will wait for hours to get into the theater, it's a sign that it doesn't take blood and thunder and off-color morals these days. -That's worth knowing. The Statesman adds: "The movie follows the book only insofar as it jams the world's flora and fauna together on a South Seas island to be put at the dis posal of the Robinson family that is shipwrecked there. Disney toss es into the formula a shipload of throat-cutting pirates, a junglcful of adventure and a bundle of ro mance in a successful attempt to prove that some things can be made TOO BIG for a 21-inch pic ture tube." In other words, Disney set out to produce for the life-size movie Rockefeller Strikes Back At Charges Of Corruption Made By N. Y. Demo Mayor NEW YORK (AP)-Gov. Nelson: A. Rockefeller, answering charg es by Mayor Robert F. Wagner that corruption exists in some state agencies, says action has been completed or is uoder way in all cases cited by Wagner. , Rockefeller, releasing his reply here Friday night, blamed some of the shortcomings in various state agencies on situations in herited from previous Democratic administrations. , Wagner charged "notorious" situations exist in the Motor Ve hicles Bureau, the Slate Rent Commission, the State Liquor Authority, and the Mate Depart ment of Public Works. Rockefeller noted that Wagner failed to name any specific em- Week's Layoff Due In Auto Industry DETROIT (AP) A present or pending one-week layoff of nearly 80,000 men in the auto industry emerged Friday from the indus try's inventory problem. General Motors announced plans to lay off more than 43,000 men in Michigan and in plants around the country for a week starting Feb. 13. This followed American Motors' layoff, scheduled Monday, of 20,- 000 workers at its Wisconsin fac tories. At the same time Ward's Auto motive Reports, the trade paper. said Ford would lay -off 13,500 men. In all instances, the layoffs were described as being a neces sary production cut to balance the auto1 plants' output against the the heavy Inventory of unsold new 1961 model cars. Hospital Gets Loan WASHINGTON (AP) Eman uel Hospital in Portland will re ceive a $440,000 loan from the Community Facilities Administra tion. The money will be used for construction of housing for 33 in terns and resident physicians. The Cartoonist "P - p - JENKINS screen something that would be big in sheer size to be copied by TV. That sounds like shrewd busi ness. But the interesting point is that he chose for his king-size screen opus a clean, delightful, fam- uy-iue story wnose moral, if any, is that hard work, buttressed by a good educational background, can be made to pay off in a big way. One can't help hoping that "Swiss Family Robinson" pays off at the box office in a big way. That would prove something that in this day and age needs to be proved. Here's a quiz question: See if you can answer it offhand, without looking it up in the book. Who wrote "Swiss Family Rob inson?" , To save your time, here is the answer: "Swiss Family Robinson" was written, somewhat more than a century ago, by Johann Rudolf Wyss, a Swiss educator and author. It is probably the best of the many stories . that were written along about that time in imitation of Daniel DeFoe's "Robinson Cru soe." ' ,: Wyss heard the story of the Swiss family named Robinson from his father and wrote it into a book at a considerably later time. Johann Rudolf Wyss was born at Bern, in Switzerland, in 1743, and became a professor of philos ophy at the university there. His works, incidentally, include the Swiss national anthem: "Rufst du, Mein Vaterland?" (Are You Calling, My. Fatherland?) ployes in his charges. The gov ernor added that he has not, and will not, "tolerate misconduct or corruption in state government at any level." Wagner's letter said the Motor Vehicles Bureau "has had, and has today, employes who accept ed cash and gifts in private sales of license plates" to ineligible drivers. - To this, Rockefeller replied that Slate Atty. Gen. Louis Lefkowitz has been working for 16 months with bureau officials in probing agency personnel. The governor listed eight employe indictments and a number of dismissals and forced resignations as a result of an investigation. Handed Back To Democrats Probes sparked under his ad ministration, Rockefeller said, stemmed from conditions appar ently existing before he took of fice. The predecessor to Rocke feller was W. Averell Harriman, a Democrat.- As for operations of the State Rent Commission, the mayor charged that employes have ac cepted payoffs. Rockefeller said his administra tion has been ferreting out such cheats. Wagner contends that cases pending before the State Liquor Authority are expedited by cer tain law firms charging high fees and that liquor dealers pay $10 and $20 every time their books are inspected. Until a few weeks ago, said Rockefeller, the majority of auth ority members were appointees of Harriman. Wagner also contended that "tribute on road material" was being paid under the Public Works operation to "highly con nected political figures on Long Island, not all of them from Suf folk County." The mayor specifically men tioned the Tenth District, which embraces New York City and Nassau and Suffolk counties. The governor replied that mat ters relating to Suffolk County were in the hands of a grand jury. He also reminded the mayor that the major portion of public works money spent in the district is al located to New York City. Says: please C-c-come l - I mm -OT- Jfc 'Ham' Shows Up For News Meet CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Ham, the carefree space chimp. showed up for a full-dress press conference Friday shortly after a medical expert reported a man would have been "perfectly all right" had he taken the same trip. The 37 pound chimp showed uo minuies laie lor nis meeting with about 25 photographers and newsmen. Then he acted like any other ape. lie screecnea as he ap proached the reporters, holding on to the arms of two handlers, Air man l.C. Joe M. Pace, Darling ton, S. C, and Sgt. Edwart Dit mcr, Minneapolis. Ham continued to yell for sev eral seconds until Pace lilted him into his arms. As he clung to the handler's neck, the ape grad ually became accustomed to the snapping cameras and inquiring reporters. Earlier, Lt. Col. James Henrv. chief of the air medical section of the space agency life sciences branch, reported that the life en vironment system worked perfect ly during Tuesday's flight. He said that a study of data showed Ham performed all his assigned be havior tasks "wonderfully" dur ing the 16 W minutes he rocketed through space. Henry said that Ham's heart beat increased slightly for a cou ple ot seconds wnen tne rocket reached its maximum accelera tion shortly after launch and for another two seconds when maxi mum re-entry forces built up on the capsule. Asked if a man could have sur vived the flight, Henry replied: "An astronaut would have been perfectly all right on this trip." Installment Debts In Smallest Rise WASHINGTON (AP)-The Fed eral Reserve Board said Friday in stallment debts increased by only $76 million in December the smallest rise since October 1958. Auto credit declined by $31 mil lion, the first drop in this category in 26 months. The December increase in total installment debt compared with an increase of about $175 million in November. The slackening in the rise reflected a reduction of $120 million in extensions of new credit while repayments showed little change. For the October-December quar ter, installment credit increased an average of $120 million a month. This compared with $170 million in the July-September quarter and $420 million in the first half of 1960. For the year as a whole, install ment credit rose by $3.4 billion to $43.3 billion. The increase was $2 billion less than in 1959. Noninslallment debt increased $62 million in December to $12.3 billion. . Older Tree Seedlings ; Show Best Survival CORVAT.US (AP) Older tree s'eedings survive belter in Southern Oregon reforestation projects, the Oregon Forest Re search Center reports. A study by R. K. Herman showed that 60 per cent of the two-year-old Douglas fir seedings survived. The survival rale for three-year-old seedlings was 75 per cent. Sen. Morse Named WASHINGTON (AP) ' Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., and Rep. Walter Norblad, K-Ore., were named Thursday to the congres sional delegation to go to the opening Monday of the Mexico- United States Interparliamentary Council meeting at Guadalajara, Mex. i - i in County Health Notes Practice Of To Mumps, By JOHN H. DONNELLY, M.D. County Health Officer Of all the frailties to which man is heir, there is probably no condition subjected to more frivo lous comment than mumps. Per haps this is partly because nobody ever dies of mumps, at least hardly ever, therefore, it may not be taken as seriously as some oth er diseases. Also, perhaps the dis tortion that takes place on the face of the victim, making him appear to be something of a fugi tive from the swinery, may con tribute to the levity this disease seems to promote. Perhaps, too, the fact that the disease some times affects the sex glands of a man is a humorous concept to some. Certainly mumps is not consid ered one of our bad diseases. It lends to run an epidemic course every few years, affecting those who have grown up since the last widespread occurrence of the dis ease in a given community, but is not generally considered an import ant enough disease to require phy sicians reporting its occurrence to the Health Department. Tell a person with mumps his disease is not important and he would be likely to laugh in your face, if it didn't hurt him too much to laugh. At the height of the dis ease, his whole manner and ap pearance bespeak pure misery. Northwest's Pine Forests Under Threat Of Attack From New Enemy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Northwest's rich pine for ests are under threat of attack from a new enemy that might prove as deadly and as costly as the spruce budworm. The European pine shoot moth was. found last year in trees of the ' Portland, Seattle and Spo kane areas. Its larvae are now in the buds of whatever young pines they in fest, protected by a bit of pitch. They are scheduled to hatch in June and fly to other trees to lay their eggs and begin the cycle of destruction. The Washington Department of Natural Resources Is coordinating the race to destroy them before that happens. Oregon's Depart ment of Agriculture and the Unit ed States Forest Service have joined in this program which E. Berlin Admits Housing Shortage BERLIN (AP) Communist East Germany today claimed an 8.3 per cent increase in industrial production in 1960, but admitted difficulties in housing, farm pro duction and railway transport. The report of the Central State Statistical Control Office did not say so, but any progress in pro duction was made more impres sive by the fact that it was done with a declining population, near ly 200,000 East Germans more than 1 per cent of the population fled to the West last year. Western experts are wary of Communist statistics, especially after recent admissions that fig ures were doctored in the Soviet Union and Red China. They were inclined to believe, however, that the Germans are in fact produc ing more these days on both sides of the Iron Curtain. They were quick to point out that by the Communists' own fig ures, the production increase was greater 14.5 per cent in those enterprises only partly owned by the Communist state. The report occupied a full page today in the official Communist daily Ncucs Deutschland. It em phasized such figures as an 8.2 per cent increase in workers' pro ductivity, an 11 per cent increase in building:, and a 9 per cent in crease in investments. As is usual in such reports, there were no fig ures upon which to apply the per centages. , A closer reading gave indica tions of where efforts had fallen down. For instance, no over-all percentage was given for farm production. Increases were noted in selected products but East Ger mans, practiced in the art of reading between the lines of a controlled .press, wore certain to assume a short fall in others. For milk, the report stated the plan had not been fulfilled. It blamed this on poor fodder pro duction in 1959. No figures were given. Committee Will Meet On Experiment Station REDMOND (AP) The Cen tral Oregon advisory committee for establishment of an experi mental farm station in this area will meet here Tuesday. Irrigation districts of the region have offered 45 acres of land for the proposed station, farmers of Jefferson. Deschutes and Crook, counties have been urging estab lishment ot the station for some time. Talent Woman Killed In Car-Truck Collision MEDFORD (AP) - Mrs. Char lotte Dailey. 32. ot Talent was killed Thursday when her car and a truck collided on a highway near here. Her sister, Alice Scbilti, J1, Talent, a passenger in the car was injured. The driver of the truck. Raymond Dwight Peder son, 45, Beaveiion. and a passen ger escaped unhurt. Exposing The Young Seems To Be Justified Fortunately, the vast majority of cases recover completely within a week or two and have no serious lingering effects, but there may be complications. Occasionally the pancreas is involved, and severe digestive disturbances result through the course of the disease. The sex glands are also subject to involvement, especially in the adult male, where this may devel op as a complication in about one fourth of the cases. Probably the most severe complication of mumps other than a quite rare occurence of sterility in the man, is that of mumps of the brain and nervous system. This may develop with or without involvement of the salivary glands, which is the classi cal type. Mumps of the central nervous system involved about 10 per cent of all cases to some ex tent and may involve either sex at any age. In more severe cases, a typical encephalities picture is to be seen. Complete recovery is the rule, but deafness or paralysis of the face or even death do occur on rare occasions. Since lasting effects of mumps in the male is almost always seen after maturity, it is much prefer able for boys to get the disease before they reach adolescence. A number of doctors actually advise their patients to expose their male children to cases while they are quite young so that they may have the disease and acquire immunity for later life. This practice can calls for research and experi ments as well as actual destruc tion of such trees as pose the greatest threat. When nursery stock and a hedge at Spokane were found to be heavily infested, they were de stroyed. They were too close to the pine forests to take a chance. Scotch pines and Japanese table pines in a Portland nursery were destroyed, too, as the best means of getting rid of the only, known infestation in that area. But around Seattle the problem is widespread and a fumigation experiment is under way. Foresters believe that the Northwest states' infestation be gan with a shipment of nursery stock to Seattle from British Co lumbia where the moth has been known for several years. Now in dividual landscaping plants in Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and elsewhere are infested. So far it is only in ornamental stock that the pine shoot moth has been found in the Northwest. In the East, however, it has been found in plantings of Ponderosa pine. lt it snouia get into tne region s commercial pine forests, buds Workers Charge Trains Faulty NEW YORK (AP)-Trainmen of the Long Island Rail Road noti fied the line Friday that they would not work over the week end. They claimed equipment is not in proper operating condi ion. The Long Island world's busi est commuter railroad promptly denied the trainmen's charge. "No unsafe equipment is being operated on the Long Island Rail Road," said a company state ment. The move by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen apparently caught the Long Island by sur prise. A spokesman said the union had made no previous complaint to the line until a telegram was received Friday, saying union members would not work between 6 a. m, Saturday and 4 a. m. Monday. State Newspaper Group Fights Proposed Bill sat pur fpir.ri r" wKk manager of the Oregon Newspa per Publishers Association, today urged defeat of a bill which would remove the requirement that counties publish statements of ex- penuuures in newspapers. He told the Senate Elections Committee that the bill deprives the people of their right to know "what their county's governing body is doing and who got the money, for what and how much." The present law, in effect since 1891. "ha mntrihiifprf Iaw. better understanding on the part oi laxpayers 01 now me affairs of their counties have been con ducted," he said. The Association of Oregon Counties, sponsor- of the bill, said the monthly publication is no long er needed because their records are open to public inspection. Youth Camp Proposed In Pendleton Vicinity SALEM (AP)-The possibility of establishing a youth camp near Pendleton was raised in a letter discussed by the state Board of Control today. The Oregon Juvenile Judges As sociation has asked that the state not sell its land at Reith, near Pendleton, until it had a chance to study the possibilities of such a facility. The state previously announced its intention to sell the farmland which it no longer needs. The judgci hope to establish the fa cility for predelinquent young steiw. "We should commend the ef forts by counties to try to do something about this problem." Secretary of State Howell Apphns Jr. laid. probably be well justified. Mumps usually does not develop until from two to three weeks alter exposure to a case. It is contagious from a day or two before symp toms appear until the swelling subsides. As with all childhood contagious diseases,' a child should be kept home from school during the course of a disease, not only to minimize contacts with others but to help minimize the development of complications. There is no specific treatment except keeping the patient as com fortable as possible and relatively quiet. Although a vacination for mumps has been developed, it is only effective for approximately two years and should be used only by those whose occupation is such that they cannot afford to take the risk of getting the disease. There is a mumps immune serum which gives immediate passive protection for a few weeks, but this is quite expensive and rather difficult to obtain. Gamma Globulin is not con sidered effective in preventing the development of the disease. Probably nobody knows just how much mumps there is in Douglas County right now, but there is a lot of it. Knowing of its existence, each person may take the steps necessary to assure his best inter ests in the presence of the disease. In case of doubt, one may contact his family physician or the Health Department for specific advice on any questions that may arise. would be killed, shoots be mal formed, and damage could soar. "We simply cannot live with this pest," said E. L. Kolbe of the Western Pine Assn. Spray programs such as that used year after year on the spruce budworm would be only partly effective at best against the pine shoot moth and might have no effect at all. The larvae spend the winter behind a layer of pitch, which protects them from sprays. Right now the question is whether fumigation with melhol bromide will do the job. The Washington Department of Nat ural Resources started in Decem ber dropping special tents over in fested trees and shooting in a kill ing gas. This will be done three more times, into September. Bv then it will be known how much gas is needed to kill the pest if it will indeed reach the larvae and how much the trees can stand without themselves dying. There will be continued surveys block by block in such pine country cities as Spokane in search for new infestations. Stud ies into control will be pursued. The spruce budworm and the balsam woolly aphid continue to plague the forests but they can be controlled. 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