Publithed by Newt-Reviow Co., Inc., 545 S.I. Main St., Roseburg, Ore,
Charles V. Stanton
Editor
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.Enlered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at
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4 The Newl-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Feb., 27, 1961
PROGRESS EDITION
By Charles V. Stanton
Anvone who desires to know about Douglax County
should find today's special issue
table encyclopedia of information pertaining: to virtually
nil phases of activity.
Obviously it is impossible to tell everything about the
tountv in one edition of the newspaper, regardless of size.
in this issue, however, an effort has been made to include
information both old-timers and newcomers will find use
ful, while the Progress Edition is of particular value as a
liiailing piece to relatives and acquaintances in other parts
f the country.
2 Through today's edition of the newspaper, it will be
possible to gain a "motion picture" of Douglas County, for
jt is designed, through hundreds of articles, that today's
ypecial issue shall present a picture of the county in move
went and action. The newspaper tells what has been done,
Svhat is being done, what is to be done. It tells of places,
Organizations, people, activities. It -attempts to paint the
picture both with words and photographs.
I Douglas County has been making a special effort to
jreate a national image of itself as a place for activity, rec
reation and retirement. Readers will find in today's news
paper a wealth of information conforming to this promo
iional program.
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Progress Assured
As is so forcefully indicated by the news in this Prog
Jess Edition, the future for the county is exceedingly promising.'
The favorable outlook is most gratifying because the
rea has in recent months been proclaimed as a "depressed
Irea." The existing unemployment, partly based on nor-
jiial winter shutdown of woods
market resulting from general economic conditions, nas
made exploitation of the immediate condition suitable for
political use. Prospects are that Douglas County, and par
ticularly the Roseburg "area, will be one of the first spots
3n the nation to hit the recovery trail.
Good weather will see construction going full blast. Si
multaneously it is expected that the lumber market will
Sake an upward trend, i Signs of an anticipated sharp rise
3n lumber Drices and employment already are visible.
T But a look at what is planned in Roseburg In the next
jfew months offers substantial proof that any existing reces
sion is only temporary.
School construction alone offers to take up a consider
able nart of the employment slack.
'. : Work has been started on Fit' Grove and Fullerton ele
mentary schools in West Roseburg. The existing Fullerton
school will be a beehive of activity as soon as .the term is
rfiver, for it is to be converted from elementary to junior
jiigh school use and will be known as the f remont Jr. Jligli.
Highways Listed
J .' f
3 A route already has been laid out for Pine Street, which
' 'J to be linked with Stephens St. for a north-south, one-way
youplet through Roseburg.
At the same time a new bridge will be built at Wash
' Sngton Ave. Coupled with the existing route on Oak St.,
Svhich will be made one-way west of Stephens and Pine,
traffic will be furnished with east-west one-way routes.
Big development is in prospect for the area around the
double couplet intersection. Construction already has been
Started on a very fine motel. The block now occupied by
Jhe wrecked Central Junior High building is to be the Rite
yf an exciting new downtown shopping center. Fred Lock
Swood and Gordon Smith, Ford dealers, have purchased the
3Gerrelsen and surrounding properties and are planning a
3arge sales and service installation. J '
f Mercy Hospital is making good progress on a campaign
Mhat will result in construction of a large administrative
nd geriatric unit for that institution. Montgomery Ward
3ias broken ground for a sales building immediately north
3f town. Grand Hotel, which has had but little repair since
ihe blast, is to be made into an apartment house for senior
citizens. Equitable Savings and Loan is -remodelling the
Quarters formerly occupied by the Roseburg branch of the
;V. Sy2Tationnl bank. ', '
; The projects listed above -constitute only part of the
-construction program just now being started.
- Several million dollars also will be spent on mad proj
ects, which will include much work on the Pacific Highway,
2sorth Umpqim Highway, Highway 225, and numerous tim
bcr access and county roads.
? The edition published today truly is one outlining prog
ress. It is an edition that should be of extreme interest at
Uiome and throughout the country everywhere.
Housing Short At Tiller
During Peak Work Periods
. Scarcity of privately-owned land
3n the Tiller-Drew vicinity suitable
;for development as homesiies
helps contribute to seasonal nous
ling shortages and competition for
'desirable rental units year around.
With housing facilities wholly In
adequate during peak work pe
nods, crews often travel long dis
tances daily from home to work, or
make use of camp trailers or lent
Jshcltori as an alternative.
. The community of Tiller lies
-near the junction of Elk Creek and
'the South Umpqua Itivcr on High.
way 42. about midway between
JCanyonville on Highway Wand
.Trail on the Crater Lake Highway.
JNdrrow rocky canyon wall and
.steep hillsides Wrier the highway
fur much of the distance between
, Coffee Creek about three miles
wcst of Tiller to Dixon Creek about
"four miles In the southeast in the
.direction of Drew. The same
'type of terrain prevails upriver to
.Jackson Creek, but then private
'land becomes scarce, with road
side areas being mainly govern-gnicnt-owncd.
,
IHomatltoi Developed !
i Homesites have been developed
nn most of the suitable private land
.adjacent to Ihe highways and some
of them perch on bits of level
of The News-Review a veri
activity, plus a slow lumber
ground wilh limited yard space,
but with sccnio river views.
Many side roads intersecting the
surfaced roads lead to surprising
numbers of occupied small acre
ages and former homesteads, but
most of them are beyond reach of
electric service, and occupants
trade many modern conveniences
for seclusion and privacy. Rem
nants of old orchards, fertile gar
den spots and a few head of live
stock often help to make some of
the remote habitations fairly self
sufficient. Many such locations, while lack
ing paint, are nevertheless well
tended otherwise and have a rus
tic charm in their natural settings.
Improvement Many
Most homes along the main
roads and some, too. In secluded
locations, have undergone modern
isation and improvements since
days of the material shortages of
World War II, and few ramshackle
houses or iinpainted sharks, with
Ilia inevitable privies, remain to
be seen by travelers.
As roadside adjacent lands wid
en to the west of Coffee Creek in
Ihe Milo vicinity and to the north
east approarhing Drew and be.
yond, much more level grouand ap
pears and clusters of homes and
small farmi dot the landscape.
In The Day s News
By FRANK
From Albany (Oregon):
scientists working witn a rare
metal refined here by the Wah
cnang corporation have found a
way of creating extremely strong
magnetic fields, using a very small
amount of electricity. The metal is
known as columbium. Ninety per
ceni oi ine world a supply or it is
produced by the Wah Chang Corp.
from ores mined in Malaya, South
Africa and Australia. With its aid
a magnetic field can be generated
with one-fiftieth of the wire hither
to needed.
In case you ask what that means
to you, electric motors work by
means of a magnetic field. If they
can be made with one-flflhieth of
the wire now needed, they can be
made cheaper and smaller.
This new metal is expected to
improve radio transmission. . -'
And ,
The scientists say ' ."
IT ENCOURAGES DREAMS OF
HARNESSING FOR PEACEFUL
MEANS THE SOURCE OF ENERt
GY USED IN THE H-BOMB. '.'.
Going on from there ,
I suppose you read in the papers
the other day that our nuclear sub
marines are running an unexpect
edly long time on one charge of
their atomic fuel. The story added
that the time might not be too
far off when they will operate for
DECADES on one charge.
The -story speculated that the
time, may even come when a nu
clear submarine may be built that
will NEVER have to be refueled.
And-
That suggests that a nuclear
powered SPACE SHIP MIGHT
James Marlow
Pair Of K's Up To Necks
In Friendly Frustration
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Kennedy and Premier Khru
shchev are up lo their necks in
friendly frustration. '
They have laid a pleasant
foundation for a future - meeting,
which seems inevitable, like two
men who wanted to bury a hat
chet but not in each other's head.
They have exchanged ' cordial
messages and avoided name-calling
and personal attacks which
would make a meeting impossible,
as Khrushchev made a meeting
with former President Eisenhower
impossible because of what he
said.
But beyond that there's no basic
difference between Khrushchev's
relations with Kennedy and his re
lations wilh Eisenhower. With
both his main policy has been
consistent: push where he sees a
chance.
The chance he sees now Is in
the Congo. Although Kennedy
wants the United Nations' forces
to stay there to keep the peace,
Khrushchev wants them out alto
gether. Russia's chance for influence
among the Congolese and a shat
tering penetration of Africa would
he vastly improved wilh the U.N.
forces gone. From the Russian
viewpoint, this is natural enough.
It's also natural enough for
Kennedy to want nothing of -the
kind. So, while Kennedy has ex
tended a friendly hand to Khru
shchev, he has kept the other fist
clenched.
There was nothing gentle about
Kennedy's warning to Russia
without mentioning either Russia
or Khrushchev by name not to
try to move into the Congo.
He told the Russians and lied
Chinese in his State of the Union
message that soft talk from them
would leave him unconvinced that
they are not trying lo take over
the world.
At the same time both men are
getting their governments, ready
to talk seriously about disarma
ment. This will take a lot of talk
ing and a lot of time.
Khrushchev says he's anxious
for disarmament. He says he's a
believer in peaceful coexistence.
The Cartoonist
WW iBkk -
JENKINS SS
SOMEDAY BE BUII.T THAT
WOULD CRUISE AROUND FOR
EVER OUT IN SPACE. ,
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Well, you can't stop a guy from
After all-
Would such a thing be any more
fantastic today than was electricity
when Ben Franklin first flew his
kite up ;nto the stormy skies and
brought the miracle of electricity
down to mankind ..
Or when Wilbur Wright and his
brother Orville made a crude air
plane fly for two or three minutes
at Kitty Hawk? Planes had been
dreamed of for centuries. Back in
the late 1400's Leonardo da Vinci
envisioned the idea of mechanical
flight and drew a crude but accur
ate sketch of what an airplane
ougnt to look like.
But it wasn't any good until
somebody came along and invent
ed the internal combustion engines
which provided the power to get a
plane up in the air and keep it
there. J lie internal combustion en
fine also made possible the auto
mobile, which revolutionized land
transportation and- made walking
obsolete.
So. . .don't scoff too much about
this new rare metal and what
may come of it. '
It's a weird world we're living in,
to be sure. But it has fabulous
promise of amazing things to come.
The big question:
Can the MIND of average man
keep up with the world of the fu
ture? But what he means by that and
what Kennedy means are not nec
essarily the same thing.
Because they are not the pos
sibility of disarmament seems a
long way off.
So long as (lie United States is
equipped to fight an all-out war,
it will have the power to discour
age the Russian and Chinese Com
munists from starting small wars
since they might mushroom into
big ones.
If the Russian idea of peaceful
coexistence means pushing into
one nation after another and tak
ing over, through pressure from
without or within, then it would
become a very unpeaceful coex
istence. Since Kennedy says "we must
never be lulled into believing that
either (Russia or Red China) has
yielded its ambitions for world
domination," then he will have to
remain able to deal firmly with
them, ' , ...
He's firm wiih them now, while
Khrushchev tries to push in the
Congo. So, while Kennedy and the
Russian on the surface deal in the
friendliest way, they are actually
frustrating each other.
Atomic Energy Group
Member Named By JFK
WASHINGTON (AP) Dr. I.e
land J. llaworth, director of the
Brookhaven National Laboratory
on Long Island, N. Y., has been
chosen by President Kennedy to
be a member of the Atomic En
ergy Commission.
The selection of llaworth, a Re
publican, completes the. member
ship of the five-member body.
The A EC post pays .$22,000 a
year. -
He holds degrees from Indiana
University and the University of
Wisconsin. ' ... ;
The scientist's specialties' have
included nuclear physics, high en
ergy physics, and the surface
structure of metals. He is a for
mer president of Ihe American
Nuclear Society.
Says:
Jour de la Gloire
! Hal Boyle
Girls Marry At Early Age,
Americans Travel Most
NEW "YORK (AP)-Things ' a
columpist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
American girls are marrying
younger than ever. The 'chances
are 96 in 100 that a girl married
between 16 and 20 will have a
baby. If she waits to 30 or 35,
the chances are only 85 out of
100.
The price of civilization is
headaches. The average Ameri
can now gulps 114 aspirins a
year. It has been estimated that
for every $50 earned in this soun
try someone gets a headache.
Greatest Travelers
We must be the world's most
traveling people. Every day some
3'i million Americans are on an
overnight trip taking them at
least 100 miles away from home.
What sound most sets your
nerves on edge? The most an
noying sound to men, a survey
found, was that made by scrap
ing a saucepan with a knife.
Our own choices: (he morning
alarm clock or a wife doing her
fingernails.
Mighty obvious thoughts by
mighty minds: "I don't suppose
being in love has ever been easy
tor anyDooy. woel coward.
Get Rid of Evidence
Professional DickDockets usual
ly drop a stolen wallet into the
nearest mailbox after removing
the money. They've found this the
quickest way to get rid of the
evidence. Each week aiiout 450
Action On Minor
Bills Presented
At Legislature
SALEM (AP) Portland. Eu
gene, Springfield, Salem, Grants
Pass and North Bend'Coos Bav
bus service probably would come
under a weight-mile tax under a
proposed bill, the House Com
merce and Utilities Committee
was told Friday.
James Singleton, director of
transportation for the Public Util
ity Commissioner's office, said he
would have to have a legal opin
ion to be sure but he believed the
tax would apply if the bill passed.
The bill requested by the Ore
gon Bus Association would wioe
out the exemption from state reg
ulation lor Duses operating in an
area between city limits and three
miles outside those limits.
Singleton said this would affect
the five metropolitan area bus
systems because they go beyond
the city limits but not more than
the three miles beyond.
SALEM (AP) - The Senate
unanimously approved Friday a
House - passed resolution that
would ask voters to approve a
change in the constitutional pro
vision for the election of state mi
litia officers.
. The resolution also would broad
en the provision that gives a per
son the right to refuse to bear
arms on religious grounds.
This right is granted under the
slate Constitution only in peace
time but this would cover limes
of war too.
SALEM (AP) The House de
cided Friday to take another look
at a bill that would allow children
under 16 years of age to work
between 6 and 10 p.m., if they
obtain special work permits from
the slate Bureau of Labor.
Rep. Carl Fisher, R-Eugene,
moved for the recall, saying that
under the bill, a baby sitter un
der 16 would have lo get a work
permit, and he did not want that
to happen.
SALEM (AP) The Oregon
House passed and sent to the
governor Friday a bill to set up
procedure for enforcing the cor
rupt practices law in regard to
nominations and elections.
It would give the secretary of
stale the authority to advise dis
trict attorneys of violations for
prosecution.
wallets are found in New York
City mailboxes.
Don't brag about how little
sleep you need. 11 may be a sign
you're not very smart. Sir J. Ar
thur Thompson said, "The less in
tellectual the animal, the less
sleep it needs. We pay for our
wits by becoming sleepy."
How do fish swim? Most people
think it's by flisDing their tails
and vibrating their fins. But re
cent tests indicate fish get their
main speed by wiggling their
bodies.
National Pencil Week
This is National Pencil Week,
honoring the first instrument able
to write under water. Americans
buy l1? billion pencils annually,
about nine for every person in the
land. Biggest user under one roof
is the New York Stock Exchange
where clerks and brokers wear
out a mil ion a year.
Take it easy note: A psychia
trist says many high-pressure ex
ecutives and professional men suf
fer from the same symptoms as
alcoholics personal frustration
The alcoholic seeks to escape his
frustration in drink, the harried
executive by overwork.
Luna Cancer Quirk
Here's a medical oddity: Lung
cancer is twice as prevalent in
Great Britain as in the United
States, although Americans smoke
far more cigarettes than the Brit
ish. Forest muscle: Pound for
pound, wood is still the strongest
building material known.
Does shaving irritate your skin?
Well, zoo keepers often shave Ihe
wirelike bristles of elephants with
acetylene torches. Believe it or
not, the big pachyderms en
joy this kind of barbering.
Geography lessons: Oceans cov
er 71 per cent of the earth. The
Pacific rolls over 33 per cent,
more than the Atlantic and In
dian Oceans combined (30 per
cent) Other seas account for the
remaining 8 per cent.
Our longevity really is increas
ing. If you are a healthy 40 now
and take good care of yourself
you have a better-than-even
chance of living to be 80.
It was Josephus Daniels who
observed, "Defeat never comes to
any man until he admits it."
Marriage License
Queries Involved
SALEM (AP) A bill has been
introduced in the Oregon Legisla
ture that could require marriage
license applicants to answer, in
addition to vital statistics, such
questions as:
"What kind of man (or woman)
would you like to be stranded on
a descried island with for one
day? For five years?-
Do you like to be in love with
somebody of the opposite sex?
"Do you , like to tell jokes in
which, sex plays a major part?"
The bill was introduced at the
request of the Family Law Com
mittee of the Oregon Stale Bar,
which wants "other pertinent in
formation" required of marriage
license applicants, said state Sen.
Carl Francis. Long lists of ques
tions that should be included were
supplied by the Oregon Psycho
logical Society.
The bill is now before Ihe Sen
ate Judiciary Committee. Francis
said he did not expect the hill to
go far after committee members
get a. look at the queslions.
Welfare Commission
Adopts March Budget
PORTLAND (AP)-The Oregon
Welfare Commission has approved
a March budget of $3,743,298.
Andrew Juras, assistant welfare
administrator, said this was the
highest allocation he could re
member for any one month.
The breakdown of the total
March budget shows that the
state will pay $1,231,751 of the
cost, the federal government $1,
994.282 and the counties $517,895.
At the same time, the commis
sion said welfare recipients will
soon be able to buy tobacco with
their food purchase requisitions.
Requisitions now are marked '
wilh a notice that they may not
be exchanged for liquor, beer,
wine or tobacco.
KICK-BACK ON ARSON
BALTIMORE (AP) Wayne E.
Rrown. 44. was placed under $5.
000 bail in nearby Rcisterslown
police court Friday on an arson
charge resulting from a blaze
which damaged the eating place
he owns, Ihe Fireplace Diner. i
Let
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White House Maid Offers
'First Lady' Impressions
NEW YORK (AP)-What presi
dent didn't want to see servants
about in the White House, causing
them lo hide in closets some
limes? Which lady was the most
considerate?
Lillian Rogers Parks, a veteran
of 30 years as a White House
maid, gives her answers to these
queslions in a book lo be pub
lished Feb. 27.
Memoirs Banned
Her account of doings at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. may be one of
the last to be DUblished. On Thurs
day it was announced that, at the
request of chief usner J. pernaru
West, domestic personnel there
now were pledged to refrain from
publishing memoirs.
Airs. I'arKs lens oi nunureus ui
incidents involving the occupants
during her three decades the
Labor Unions Urge
More Govt. Help
For Cuban Refugees
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)
The AFL-CIO Joday called on the
government to expand its aid to
Cuban refugees. The labor group
said the problem is worse than
the one created when refugees
streamed to America following
the 1956 Hungarian revolt.
"More than twice the number of
people are involved and wilh
Cuba only 90 miles off the coast
of the United States, the number
of refugees is certain to grow."
the AFL-CIO Executive Council
said in a statement.
It said that from 30.000 to 60,
000 Cubans have already fled
from the Castro regime and come
to live in the Miami -area, and
an additional 5.000 each to Tam
pa, Fla., and to New York City.
A&P Magnate Assessed
Huge Domestic Division
NEW YORK (API Morinri
Steele Hartford Friday won an
uncontested divorce and a $2,385,-
000 settlement frnm Unnlinnn
Hartford II, A&P chain store heir.
She also gets an additional $60.
000 a year, presumably until she
remarries, plus custodv of the
couple's- two children Cathv, 11,
dIJU JdCKIC, .
The divorce proceedings before
State SuDremp fnnrt .inctia
Charles A. t.oreto were secret.
Adultery is Ihe only grounds for
divorce in New York.
In her original suit, Mrs. Hart
ford reportedly accused Hartford
in niiscuiiuuci witn several un
identified women and asked a rec
ord $25-millinn snlllnmi.nf sh.
estimated his wealth at $50 mil
lion.
Miss Steele wac n lQ.uoar.nl.?
HnllvwnnH cionrnllfl ni.-l
she married. Hartford, now 48, 12
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CLOVER'S
. Telephone Answerinq Service
amusing, the sad, the embarras.
i sing, and the good and bad points
I of thoie she served.
Different Impressions
Regarding various first ladies:
"I think Ihe behavior of Mrs.
Truman toward the While House
servants set Ihe best example for
any future first lady. She was
neither too sentimental, nor too
harsh. ...
She didn't keep looking over
nnr chnutders. as Mrs. Eisenhow
er did; and she didn't ignore the
work that was done, as Mrs.
Roosevelt did. Mrs. Truman was
the most considerate first lady in
recent decades."
"Mrs. Hoover kept the While
House in the most turmoil. Things
were always in such a state of
flux that it would be quite true
lo say that she never did get com
pletely settled. Almost every
room was in a torn up state, and
as soon as it was fixed one way,
she would decide it would look
better another way."
Loses Temper
Mrs. Roosevelt: "If you angered
her, you were a dead duck. Let
one servant prove himself 'una
ble to get along wilh the rest of
the help,' let him be caught
quarrelsome or irritable, and out
he would go."
Mrs. Eisenhower: "By compari
son. Mrs. Eisenhower lost her
temper frequently, but got over
it just as quickly, and did not
fire anyone. In fact, she would
be exceptionally nice to make up
for it." She also ordered that all
left-over food be saved for later
use.
"The Hoovers were fierce about
servants being neither seen, nor
heard, and heaven help you if you
were caught in the hall when the
president was coming. It was a
sort of scandal around the While
House, the way we would dodge
into a particular closet."
HST 'Be At Ease'
Hoover's successor, Roosevelt,
"gave the order to" stop this and
'just act natural." Truman was
"the most insistent that we be
at ease.'-.
Roosevelt: He had great per
sonal wealth and gave "the im
pression of great generosity," but
was a penny-pincher on household
expenses. He also was "very sen
sitive lo the feelings of others,
a quality that made him most
kind to the help."
Eisenhower had such a hot tem
per his wife was in constant fear
he would "bust out at the wrong
time," but: "He and the first
lady shared an amazing bond (hat
was a joy to behold. She was Ihe
most feminine of the four first
ladies I had worked for, and
showed the greatest possessive
ness toward her husband."
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