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Published by Nawt-Rtvitw Co., Inc., 545 S.E. Main St., Roiaburg, Ort. Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor ' Member of (he Associated Press, Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation , Entered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Roscburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL 'PAGE 4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, THE RIGHT By Charles The Oregon Legislature has the requirement that proceedings of the county court and the bills paid by the various departments must be published. The present law says that there shall be published in selected newspapers of general ment of the proceedings of the governing body in the trans action of county business entered of record during the pre vious month." The legal order also makes it necessary for the county court to have published each month the list of all the bills it has ordered paid, thus letting the taxpayer know what is happening to Repeal of the law is advocated by the Association of Oregon Counties, an organization which includes the judges and commissioners of county I hesitate to say that the information, published is that they re trying to hide what they are doing. It would be my opinion that we have few county judges and few commissioners who would seek to hide their actions. I feel, too, that we have few crooks in public office! But, trustful as we may be of our county of ficials, we must never relax vigilance. If we do not main tain laws for protection, we're in through the holes we leave. Arguments Unreasonable .1. . The Association of Oregon Counties offers as reasons for repeal of the existing law claims that the cost "is an unnecessary burden." Also that the public records are open to anyone who desires to inspect them and that be cause of the opportunity for public inspection there is no reason the synopsis of the records should be published. Without attempting to question motives, it is my opin ion that the reasons and arguments offered by the associ ation are totally inaccurate and unreasonable. . What does it cost the county to publish each month its report on activities and bills? The cost to the average tax payer is less than one cup of coffee. Is that excessive? Isn't that tiny sum well spent as a measure of protec tion? , ' ' Someone will say that we don't need protection, against honest public officials. . That's true. Neither do we need policemen to protect us against honest citizens, but we do need policemen to protect us against the possibility of crime creeping in. And crime will creep in whenever our pro tection isn't adequate. But, getting back to the matter of cost', and coupling that with the argument that one to see. - : Let's just suppose for a moment that we repeal the-law. People will have an opportunity personally to Inspect the records. To tlo so they must go to the courthouse. The expense of that trip, if they go by automobile, will be more than a person pays for publication. Then an individual must have the lime of. a clerk to collect the records for him. The time the clerk would use in finding the record would be far more expensive than the taxpayer's cost of publication. Time Required If a hundred or more persons were to demand to see the county court journal, and to require the county clerk ; to produce record of payment on the hundreds of bills paid each month, the clerical time involved would be enormous. The cost would be far more than is paid for. publication in the two newspapers named each year as official county newspapers. , V ' Then the argument is advanced that people don't read the bills. That argument, too, is incorrect. - Studies show that the reports are "scanned" by a majority of readers while some 28 per cent have been listed in readership stud ies. But we all know that some people people often called "watchdogs of the treasury" read every word. They study and analyze. They're interested in keeping the use of taxpayer money at the lowest level. Ihey spread informa tion on any irregularity. If you think the reports aren't read, attend a meeting of your county taxpayer league sometime! It is my opinion that the "spotlight of publicity" is an important protection to every taxpayer. The people's "right to know" is one of the bulwarks of our freedom. To elim inate that right is to open the door to corruption, something of which Oregon has been singularly free. I question that Oregon has any fewer people seeking possibility for graft than we find in other states. But Ore gon has put into its laws measures of protection.'- Publicity is a deterrent to crooks seeking office. As a result we have honest men in high positions. Let's keep it that way ! Men At Top Not Necessarily Heart Ailment Candidates CHICAGO (AD A threc-year study of heart attacks among a wide range of personnel in a large industrial operation challenges the common belief that men at the top have the most to fear. Actually, the worker down to ward the bottom of the income scale Is the most likely prey for heart trouble, sav doctors Sidnev Pell and ('. A. IVAIonio of Wil mington, Del. In the current issue of the Journal of Uie American Medical Association, released today, they report the findings of a study cov ering 89,089 employes of K, I du Pont de Nemours & Co. The group, ranging in age from 17 through 64, resided principally in the Middle Atlantic and Southeast ern stutrs. It included 75,301 men and 13,788 women. Many factors reflecting the In cidence of heart disease are cov ered. One of the principal areas of examination is economic and job status. Dividing the employes into five economic-job responsibility groups, the doctors found the low est incidence of heart allarks-2 pef 1,000 among those in Die highest bracket. ' Except for the lowest brarket, each descent in the Income acale Buiinns Managtr Oreon Newspaper Publishers Ore. Man., Feb., 13 1961 TO KNOW V. Stanton before it a bill to eliminate circulation , "a concise state his money. courts. reason they don't want the apt to find crooks creeping the records are open for any brought greater incidence of at tacks. "Our data." they wrote, "are inconsistent with the idea that the increased responsibility of men at the upper levels of management increases their susceptibility to coronary heart disease. "Although atress may he an Im portant factor in the development of the disease, the level of job responsibility is not necessanlv an indicator of the degree cif stress to which an individual is subjected." In this connection, they said that persons in managerial posi tions "may derive a great deal ol satisfaction" from their jobs, while those drawing less pay lor lesa responsibility "may suffer from feelings of resentment and frustration." No Fire Order Issued TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) Chi nese Nationalist defenders on the Vuemoy Islands have been or dered not lo fire on the Commu nis! mmnlnnd durinii the Chinese lunar new year holiday Frh. H 16 uniesa nred upon. The ( oninni nuls customarily do not fire, dur ing the holiday. N 1 In The Day's News , By FRANK As (his is written, U. S. electrical manufacturing companies found guilty of violating federal antitrust laws have been fined about two million dollars. In addition, seven executives of these concerns have been sentenced to jail terms. There ...... U I C . l. ;. tan ue iiu appeal iiuiii uie juic-b and jail sentences, since all the convicted corporations and men had pleaded guilty. All the defendants were charged with price-fixing and bid-rigging in the sale of electrical equipment for generating, transmitting and distributing electrical power. It is inexcusable, of course. De liberate violation of the law is NEVER excusable. But Lei's look at the whole picture. If asked why they did it, these representatives of one of Ameri ca's largest industries might say something like this: "In employing labor, which rep resents one of the largest items in our production costs, we are faced by a giant monopoly.' We can't deal with individuals on the basis of what each individual asks in the way of wages. We must deal with giant unions that have MONOPOLY POWER to enforce their demands. "If we are to make a profit, un- James Marlow JFK Spent The Weekend On Smith's Home Ground WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy and his wife spent the weekend in Virginia's hunt country the home territory of Howard W. Smith, a sharp-eyed banker and one of the shrewdest men in Congress. Just two weeks ago Kennedy was barely able to chase Smith up a congressional tree. - Smith, a House member for 30 years and set in bis ways, repre sents a district which includes Middlcburg, where the Kennedys leased a 400-acre estate for week end getaways, 45 miles from Washington. -Middleburg, also set in its ways and with a large distaste for 'be ing disturbed, is in an area said lo contain more millionaires than any section of the country. Kennedy is a millionaire, too. but a lot of his neighbors are Re publicans. ttctore me Kennedys settled down in Middleburg the Presi dent's press secretary, Pierre Sal inger, confided to newsmen: "I think the important thing we want to keep in mind here is the real desire of the President and Mrs. Kennedy to preserve the charac ter of this particular area of Vir ginia so that life can continue in its own unhurried way." Thinss Cot a little hurried. though, what With linemen laying leiepnone ana leiegrapii lines and more than a score of newsmen, photographers and Kennedy staff ers taking up all the room in the two small hotels, Kennedy's real reason for tak ing out after Smith was a case of who corners whom. ' Smith is chairman of the House Rules Committee which, through a combination of Southern Dem ocrats .: (headed by Smith) and conservative Republicans, in the past could kill legislation that conservatives disliked by bottling it up.' ' France, Italy Tunnel ' Partially Completed PARIS (AP) The new tunnel from France to Italy under Mont Blanc is half completed, the French, contractors reported Sat urday. They said Ihey have dug out I B miles of the 3.6 miles al lotted them, while the Italians have penetrated 1.7 miles from their side. Each nation is respon sible for building about half the tunnel, whose length will be just over seven miles. The Cartoonist JENKINS der such restrictions, we must get HIGHER PRICES. If we are to get prices high enough to yield a profit on our investment, we must ELIMINATE COMPETITION AMONG OURSELVES. "That is about Uie only recourse jeit to us. It isn't an adequate answer, of course. But, inadequate though it is, it poses wis searching question: If we are to forbid combina tions in restraint of trade, including agreements on prices to be charg ed, among those who. represent in dustry, must we not eventually for bid similar combinations among those who represent LABOR? Sooner or later, we must find an answer to that question. Or Sooner or later WE WILL FIND OURSELVES PRICED OUT OF WORLD MAR KETS. ' . That raises another question: If we are priced out of world markets, how are we going to FIND EMPLOYMENT for all of our people who must have jobs if they are lo survive; The problems raised by these an titrust convictions call for a lot of serious thought. This would have meant gloomy days for Kennedy's program un less he got the whole House to change the committee makeup by adding some not-so-conservative members to smother Smith and his friends. - - - - This is what-Kennedy and his friends tried. They went through the congressional , meadows for people to line up with them while Smith and his friends did the same on their side. In the ' end, Kennedy won but by only five votes, h ardly a smashing triumph for a new president. The undaunted Smith must have figured things might get better if the House gets some new members in the 1962 election. He gave his new committee members stiff backed chairs, guessing out loud they wouldn't be around long enough to need comfortable ones. Atlanta Declines 'Fix' Prosecution ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)-The City of Atlanta will not join cities con sidering a mammoth joint suit against electrical equipment firms that pleaded guilty to rigging bids on government contracts. Mayor William B. Jlartsfield said today. In a strongly worded statement, the mayor said Atlanta "will not borrow the -tactics of a buzzard or a vulture in swooping down on the troubles of a segment of the business community." Pleases Khrush The firms, including General Electric and Wcstinghouse, and several of their executives were fined and in some instances the executives received jail sentences. Damage suits under consideration total millions of dollars. "This exacerbation of the pri vate enterprise system will no doubt greatly please Mr. Khrush chev," Hartsfield said. "If every city sued every price fixer, large and small, including the payola boys, there would not he enough lawyers and courthouses to hold the litigation. Reason For Move "Of course such traits of low ered national character must be deplored, but remedied through greater application of the Golden Rule. "Maybe that is why the business and industry of the nation are coming to Atlanta with their new plants, factories and oflices." Savs: "This Way, Men" VT lv life1 Reader Mrs. Reader Puzxled About School Census To The Editor: Dr. Boyd writes with such court esy that it becomes a pleasure even to learn' that he disagrees with one. Your second correspondent is less understanding. Even allowing his premise of total church and state separation, aid to a child can only indirectly be considered as benefitting an Institution. Perhaps this same gentleman, however, can explain something which has long puzzled me. Every year we second-class cit izens are subjected to an unnec essary invasion of our privacy when the school census - takers come around. It seems to me that when children are to be ignored in the distribution of educational aid, consistency alone would de mand that the miscarriage be com plete, and that these children re main uncounted. I am contempla ting seeking legal advice as to the possible consequence if one re fused to divulge this personal in formation as . irrelevant to one's particular circumstances. In the meantime, I should like to thank Mr. Stanton for so gen erously allowing space in his news paper for reader participation. In closing, let me offer a quotation from Abraham Lincoln whose re marks are often so very timely. "Our Droerese in degeneracy ap pears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should refer emigrating to some coun try where they make no pretense ot loving liDeny. . . . Grelchen Reeder 624 N.E. Chestnut Roseburg, Ore. Izaak Walton League Opposes Hatfield's Plan To The Editor: The Jackson County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League adopted a resolution after careful investi gation and consideration of the problems involved. We oppose inclusion of the Fish and Game Commissions in a de partment of natural resources. . Senate Bill No. 3 provides for such inclusion. Our opposition is based on the following reasons: 1. The director ot natural re sources would hold his office at the pleasure of the Governor and therefore, could .be removed with out reason or cause and without a hearing. 2. The administrator ol the fish and game board (present director) would serve at the pleasure of the director of natural resources and would be removable under( the same conditions. 3. This plan of organization will olace the management of fish and game under the influence of all types of political pressures. 4. The inclusion ol nsn ana game management in natural resources would depress the importance of fish and game in departmental considerations. 5. Ira N. Gabrielson. President of Wildlife Management Institute, says: "Those states which have usually had the best administra tion of the wildlife resources are those which are the furthest re moved lrom the governor's con trol." We urge everyone to .contact State Representatives and Sena tors and state opposition to SB No. 3 and SB No. 225 at once. Jack Hanel. President 200 Erie Street Medford, Oregon Recognition Of Good Teenagers Advocated To The Editor: Daurice Pyles recently wrote quite a lengthy letter for the Read er Opinions column of The News- Review concerning tne prooiem IP Opinions of teenagers and their search for something with which lo occupy their time. I think this writer is to be com plimented. Many of - us oldsters would do well to follow the advice, especially that to be found in tbe last part of the letter. 1 believe in upholding our young people in (heir efforts to do the right thing. They should be praised when praise is due, counseled when in need r'ur'c'h'at6 2' f ir church and of our government. There is, a .story in our Bible of the ten virgins. Five were wise, .l 2-f i,ve ..!?" ones arVived; the five "foohsh one? we not. So the door was closed on them forever. Staggering thought, isn't u : We know not the day or the hour when the Bridegroom comes. We should be ready! . Grace Wren . . Rt. 1, Box 20S Myrtle Creek, Ore. Prevention Of School Failures Aim Of Bill To The Editor: While House Bill 1097, which would raise the entrance' age of school children, has already been tabled, and thus a recent writer to your column and others who opposed the change have won their point, I should like to say that the merit of the bill lies in the pre vention of school failures, based on research. It is true that we need a flexible law which would allow children to start school when they are ready and not at a set chronological age. Educational research shows that average children are most ready te learn to read at 6'j years. Since reading is generally regard ed as the criteria of success and the basis of promotion, it would seem expedient and wise to make success more than a chance risk when a child begins his school life. Yet, under the present law the five-year-old may be placed along side a child who is almost seven. In many, many cases it is the mature child who succeeds and the immature is beset by many problems and frustrations which could have been avoided by simply staying at home another year. I know that there are many qualifications and exceptions as to when a child is ready lo start scnooi, dui i do not think this justifies overlooking the basic guid ing lacis oi research. With the money that educators and the pub lic could save by preventing fail ures, a program of readiness test ing could be adopted or even the establishment of kindergartens. Mrs. James W. Foss Rt. 1, Box 220 Myrtle Creek Oregon Writer Says Complaint Is "Jumping The Gun" ' To The Editor! .; - , In answer to the short item in your paper concerning bank closing on Saturdays and its effect on business, 1 would like to ask Mr., Sid Leiken and his associate if' department of'je,'naP" he isn t jumping the gun uj uiaiaiiufi iiib viauuua.V ' ClUdlllg on the lack of business downtown, expecUilly here in Roscburg. Wouldn't it be much better for him to wait for a period of time and see if business doesn't increase on Saturdays when, employement increases? At this moment Roseburg Is fac ed with a terrific unemployment problem and has even been .put on the list for Federal aid, due to conditions in the main industry, lumber. - . Wouldn't it be better for Mr. Leiken to try to bring more and varied types of industry to our area and to the State, concentrate on better tax laws and on i way to! reduce power rates for larger com- panics' ' Very few states in the United Mates have their banks opened on Saturday and Oregon is one of the last lo close. I come from an area that hat had this closing for yearj and it hasn't hurt business one bit. It does take lime getting used to but after a while people will forget that the banks were ever opened on Saturday and will adjust. Let's try to do something about the unemployment and get more money into the hands of the wage earners and see if business doesn't pick up. Mrs. David Pratt 1420 S. E. Jackson Roseburg, Ore. Government Given Financial Thanks TACOMA (AP) Peter HanU, 1 offered for sale last year lo pri American born of German de-v,,e buyers. Ten of the 11 tracts, scent, learned from his immigrant j wcnt unsold. Under provisions of parents that the United States was the termination law. the tracts! a land of opportunity. I " will be purchased from the He worked hard, saved with ah'he by "'e federal government passion and in his old age lived i anl incorporated into the national on government social security forest system, payments. Meanwhile, the Forest Service His will revealed Fridav that has announced appointment of he had bequeathed $40,000 to the Alexander Smith to be director of government to be used to pay fu- planning for transferring Ihe half . lure social security recipients, i million acres of land to the For- This was the bulk of approxi-!est Service. Smith will plan man malely $45,000 Hanli had saved i agement of range, timber, recrc in V. S. savings bonds over theitin. water and wildlife resourc years. i e for the area which on April 1 To his three sisters, one in Mon-: is to become part of the national tana and two in Kansas, he left forest system, one dollar apiece. ! ' " . Four thousand dollars went to an old acquaintance. Grace Wack er. now living in Atherton, Calif. Hanti. 86, died Jan. 17 after a stroke. Publicity Doesn't Pay BRISTOI,, England tAP) - The sign outside a Irmonade factory in suburban Kingswood read: "Notice to intending intruders. Do not waste your time and energy breaking; into these premises. We bank all rash daily. No rash is left on the premises osernighl " Friday night a gang broke into lha faciory and drot away with a safe containing 70 pounds" ($!3Ci i in cash. Hal Boyle Finicky Eaters Neurotic Psychologists Report NEW YORK (AP) - Things a as you may think. In New Eng. columnist might never know if he .land a monthly magaz.ne prm.ed didn't open his mail: " entirely, in Latin, has MW sub- If vou are too finicky about senbers around the g obe. a,,', -at it mav be a sign Zoo facts: The ancients thought vou're neurotic. Psychologist say nnrmal DeoDle have fewer food dislikes than the emotionally dis turbed. The country isn't going to the j , Ik. knroa The PS" ' d bul aUendance ' lhorouhbred race tracks leaped more than 55 per cent. In I960 some 33,933,786 track visitors I b 2.50T.061.567 Try To Keep tip Even doctors are finding it dif ficult to keep up with all the new "wonder drugs." In the last 20 years more new specific drugs have been developed than in all previous medical history. Good advice: .Don't feel down hearted if you strike out when attempting to do something. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times in his career, but that isn't what he's best remembered fpr. Juvenile puffers: A survey showed some British parents pack cigarettes in their children's school lunch boxes. A fourth of 2,500 young smokers (age 9 to 17) said they did so with full parental knowledge. Our quotable notables: "All the discontented people 1 know," said David Grayson, "are trying sed ulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do." Don't Neglect Will Have you, made out your will yet? Two of every five adult Americans haven't. One big rea son: Many have a foolish super stition it will bring bad luck. (But the only bad luck it brings is to their survivors.) Latin isn't as dead a language Wife Declares Stolen Kiss No Aid To Domestic Bliss DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) Civil action over a stolen kiss Was settled in District Court Friday but only the judge,' who conduct ed the case in his loony, tne law yers, and the principals know the ; terms. The decision was not i placed on the record. i Helen Hubbard, 35, mother of three, sued AtwoodT E. Dickson, 59, for $10.00o: She said sne was Kissea oy Dickson two days before last Christmas when he delivered a telegram. v Mistletoe Fan The attractive woman said the Portlands Third Daily Paper Goes Upon Newsstands PORTLAND (AP) The first edition of the Daily Reporter ; came off the presses at 9 a.m.! Saturday and Portland had three daily newspapers for the first time in 22 years. The daily publication of the Reporter began on the first anni versary of its establishment as a weekly newspaper. It has been published semiweekly for some months. It is staffed mostly by union: members on strike against The Oregonian and Oregon Journal,! the city's two other dailies. That strike began more than a year ago. The front page of the Reporter's' fil'st.uedit' had " P'c'!lr iaM 0IJ LhL-. ,1 ? . "'Sh water which hit Western Oregon Friday.! The papcr is published in tabloid! p "; Publisher Robert Webb said the Reporter's initial circulation as a daily exceeded 60,000. Indians May Get Unsold Timber Pay PORTLAND (AP) A supple-! mental , appropriation bill which has been introduced in Congress would provide funds to pay Klam ath Indians for unsold timber lands on their reservation. This was reported Saturday by the Bureau of Indian Affairs here. The hill would provide Sii8 mil lion which eventually will be dis tributed to Indians who have withdrawn from the tribe under termination of federal control over the reservation. The huge tracts of timber were Science Shrinks Pil New Way Without Surgery oiops ncn-Kelicves Pain thoidi. nop itching, nij :t!ii pain - without turgf ry. In ok i(ir ca.'t. hil gently rl:nring pain, actual reduction (nnnkartl took pi ire. the leopard was cross between , linn and a panther. This ex plains its name leo for lion, and pard for panther. Red-faced apology: Recently we said anyone wanting to give his girl an unusual valentine could surprise her with a mile of pennies for only S220. Well, lovers, our arithmetic couldn't have been worse. At least 999 readers have written in to point out that there are 16 pennies in a foot, and a mile of pennies would therefore cost $844.80. (So give her a box of candy. No girl is worth $844.80.) Religion Important Turning to another kind of dough, did you know the average U.S. family eats 245 pounds of bread a year? Worst pun of the week: Singer Enzo Sluarti says he knows . a musician's daughter who has boy friends by the score! Religion adds measurably to your personal happiness. Re searchers at the University of Michigan found that people whose religion was important to them had fewer personality , conflicts than those to whom God remains largely only a three-letter word. Best highway safety slogan of the year: "Courtesy, caution, com mon sense can curtail car casual ties." Here's a tipoff on why so many of us have money troubles: Only four out of 10 U. S. families even try to operate on a budget. A third of these families confess they can't make their budget work. It was G. W. Lyon who ob served, "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trou ble." weather was cold and she invited Dickson inside while she signed for the message and he asked: " 'Don't you have mistletoe?' " I said no and when 1 Handed him the receipt he grabbed me Dy me waist ana auempiea to kiss me on the mouth. I pushed him toward the door. He went out and said 'Merry Christmas' and I slammed the door and chain on it, Mrs, Hubbard said. She testified she was upset for weeks and "I lost patience with my husband and, my children." Christmas Spirit Dickson, a grocer who delivers telegrams, admitted he asked about the mistletoe. "I had . the Christmas spirit," he said. As she was signing the receipt I leaned over and gave her a little peck on the check. I .didn't try to grab her. 1 had jio intentions of assaulting her. "I went back later in the day with two policemen and apolo gized." ADD A . TO YOUR HOME Have you lonyed for th warmth and . comfort of a fireplace in your homa? Now it'i possible with th prefabri cated metal Ki retorted. Il hu all the advantage of a fireplace ... heat, beauty, comfort . . . and it it economi cal! to buy and install. v RADIANT HEAT FOR MORE PLEASURE The open hearth taken fond tired rttere of wood or preio logi and radi ate heat to the fvhnle room. Available in a variety of decora live colore. Com plete with atack, ecreen and fret a. 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