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3lOW$'Hemetl Published by Southern 54S S.E. Main St., unaries v. Editor George Castillo Addye Wright Assistant Editor Busintss Managtr 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 Rates on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Tue,, Mar., 7, 1961 LOCAL GOVERNMENT By Charles V. Stanton Yesterday I started discussion of a program to elimi nate municipal, and district boundaries, creating just one large district within existing county boundaries. All serv ices and operations would come under one centralized gov ernment. We would eliminate fire districts, water dis tricts, police districts, sewer districts, park districts, rec reational districts. It was my thesis that the trend toward suburban liv ing is wiping out municipal boundaries. Travelling along the highway we are in an almost continuous residential area. People are forsaking the city and city life. There is little real reason, I said, that we should have central ized city areas with separate government. I asked too that no one of the idea aimnl.v because I around. I can think of scores of objections why we shouldn't do what I am suggesting could be: done. ' But, if we are to consider, the current trend' toward big, centralized government, toward the movement away from city living, toward consolidation of school districts, are we not moving toward bigger1 units of government? Are we not a little foolish to eminent while steadily putting more responsibility on gov ernment at the top level? If we are to move authority to big government shouldn t we reduce in equivalent meas ure" the functions of small government? Mergers Possible Why shouldn't we have a county manager with au thority to serve the whole county, having under him enough deputies to take care of each manager over each city, while left unorganized? Why should we have separate school districts? Some of our counties have set up their school systems on a county-unit principle. If we abolished district boundaries, that would eliminate consolidation squabbles based on provincialism. Why shouldn't we have a county finance officer to handle all finances. We now have budget committees in each municipality and each district., They must prepare budgets, submiK proposed levies fy taxes to the assessor who makes up the assessment rolls. He then turns the whole thing over to the sheriff who makes up a duplicate listing, mails out statements, collects taxes and turns the money over to the county treasurer. He, in turn, divides ities, school districts, taxing Our system was set up to eliminate crooks. One offi cer acted as a check on the other. But today our counties have auditors who would quickly uncover any irregularity. Will someone please tell me elected to chase criminals, Or are we all crooks? ' If we consolidated all our istrator, set up a plan for one Dlace. and eliminated the cation Involved in clerical work, we could greatly reduce costs, probably increase efficiency. Authority Surrendered Tmmediatelv I hear the first objection: "that plan would take the people. Granted that we believe senlative republic, one in who are to serve. The plan I have suggested wouldn't change the 'basic, structure. It would only get rid of a lot of the little gov ernment at the lowest level and move it up to a little lnrcrcr area of operation. . Isn't that what we're doing? Aren't we leaning more mid more on state and federal government to look alter our needs to provide us with security? Why should we be maintaining local government within boundaries made obsolnta bv changing conditions and habits? Maybe we're not yet ready to dispense with the fa miliar, provincial governmental forms to which we've be come accustomed. ut floes skeleton form offer something worth kickin? around? Tlense keep in mind that such a plan snouia ue aaopiea, uui i minis, u is iiiiiiKuiug. (More Tomorrow) Brands Required On Logs Transported In Oregon Anyone in western Oregon trans porting logs by highways or rail roads or who dumps logs into its waters is required -under law to mark each log with a brand which is registered with the slate For estry Department In Salem, ac cording to Slate Forester D. L. 1'hipps. Brands are registered for five year periods, then they must be renewal forms will be sent to all tabhshed by law is from Oct. 1 to Dec. HI, 1961, at which time renewal forms wil be sent to al those having registered brands. Prior to this time, however, appli cations for renewal cannot be ac cepted. Applications Available Logging operators desiring to register brands may request appli cations by letter from the office of stale forester, post office box 22B9, Salem. The letter must con lain the name under winch the brand is lo be resistered and the address and drawing of the pro posed brand. This drawing is essential In de termining whether Ihe brand is available. Should the nmraisrd brand not meet registration re quirements or is found lo he a dup lication of a brand already regis tered, auggestions will be made by the depailment for revision thai will make it arcentahle and the request returned to the operator 'ior approval. Oregon Publishing Co. Roseburg, Oragon aranron i Oregon . Newspaper Publishers: get the idea that I'm in favor brought it up to be kicked maintain small units of gov area, rather than having a the rest of the county is to the people. Then certi the money with municipal districts, etc. why a sheriff, supposedly is required to collect taxes: tax needs under one admin assessment and collection in tremendous amount or dupli authority out of the hands of ' ' in the principles of a repre which the people elect those tne pian i nave ouumeu in for the future? Is the idea I'm not necessarily saying I'pon approval of the proposed brand, registration application forms and instructions are sent to the operator. The application form requires an actual imprint of the brand from the finished hammer. Problem Exists Since there have been over 9,169 log brands registered to some 6,- S.il operators since llus law he rame effective in 1943, the oMr- ator now applying has a problem in devising a brand wiiirn will not duplicate one of these already on file. Changes in the present law are now being considered by the state legislature to broaden the combination of symbols that can be used for Ihe brands. Assistance in preparing the. log brand is also Siven in the form of a log brand i rectory that is available for in spection at various state forestry, forest protection association and national f o re s t headquarters throughout western Oregon. This directory should be con sulted by the operator as he de signs his own brand prior to writ ing for an application. The direc- j tory has been distributed as fol lows in Douglas louiity: Canyonville. South Douglas For est Protective Association head quarters: Drain. North DKI'A headquarters', Roseburg. DKI'A neaoquaners; Keeitspoit, Smith River ranger station. In The Day's News 3 By FRANK Down at Weaverville the 6ther day two armed and masked ban dits held up a U.S. mail stage, took from it a considerable sum in currency that was being trans mitted by registered mail and disappeared in the woods. To date, no trace of them has been reported. A couple of days later two arm- ed and masked men entered the I Bank of Shodd in the upper Wil-1 lamotle valley, held up at gun's! point the assistant cashier, the president and the president's se retary, stood them against a wall and while one robber menaced them with a pistol the other scoop ed up somewhere in the neighbor hood of $19,000 and stuffed the loot in a sack. They then dashed through the door, climbed into a waiting car and sped away. As tins is being written, they have not been ap- prenended. Question: Why did these two sets of high waymen do what they did? Could it have been because they thought they had a good chance to get away vyith it? Well, at the moment, they seem to have got away with it. At least, as this is written, there has been no report of their capture. ' But The arm of the law is long. Let's quote an instance of that which got into the news recently. Some 27 years ago, in Chicago, a young man stole a bolt of silk in a Chicago department store. His High Court Denies Hearing On Sit-ins WASHINGTON (AP) The Su preme Court here unanimously refused to act on an appeal by 12 persons arrested during two "sit-in" demonstrations at a white lunch counter in Tallahassee. Fla. It was the first lime the high tribunal had been, asked lo rule on a case growing out of a wave of sit-in demonstrations in the South. The court gave no reason for its refusal to act on the appeal. It merely listed the case among a group of appeals in which it de nied hearings. The 12 persons who appealed had sat at a counter in an F. VV. Woolwoith Co. store al 120 126 N. Monroe' St., in Tallahassee. Eight of those who appealed are Negroes. The others are white. Each was sentenced in Tallahas see Municipal Court to pay $300 fine or serve 90 days in jail. The demonstrations occurred Feb. 20 and March 12, i960. - The 12 persons arrested1 ques tioned whether their arrest and convictions constituted "unlawful interference" with their freedom of speech and liberty of contract right to do business with the establishment in violation of con stitutional guarantees of due pro cess and equal protection of the laws. Film Writer At Odds With Tax Authorities LOS ANGELES (AP) Jean Renoir, Hollywood writer-director, seeks to avoid paying taxes on money earned abroad. The son of famed French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir carried an appeal Monday to the federal tax court. He asked it to apply community property rules to $40,000 he earned in France in 1953-56 so that he and his wife can each show an income of 520, 000. This would bring their incomes within the $20,000 statutory limit which can bo earned tax-free abroad under certain circum stances of residence. The Internal Revenue Service argues that community property I..,,. .Inn', .nnl. in this rni-n anA that Renoir must pay taxes on the szo.wiu balance. -The Cartoonist Says: "I. Like This One Better". JENKINS luck was bad. He was nabbed by the store detective and charged with shoplifting. He got out on bail, jumped his bond, and fled to the West. He came to the Bay Area, where he worked diligently and honestly for nearly three decades. Then Some two or three weeks ago, the FBI in the course of a rou- tine security check at the plant where he worked, matched up his fingerprints with those of the Chi- cago shoplifter. This one had a happy ending. The Cook County (Chicago) authorities, wnen noti fied, took a look at his three de cades of rectitude and dropped the charges against him. The San Francisco authorities took mercy on him and declined to disclose his identity. But The fact still remains that the arm of the law is long. No crim inal ever knows when he will be caught up with. One more talc: Back in the early days of our State of Jefferson, a Wells Fargo stage carrying gold was held up by two bandits at the summit of the old Stagecoach Pass. The high waymen took the gold. Then they compelled the passengers to line up beside the road. One held a gun on them. The other went down the line relieving, them of their valuables. The stage had an armed guard. He was riding on the top. lie had a double-barreled shotgun, load ed with buckshot. When the hold up came he dropped flat on the top of the stage, unseeen, and waited. When the two bandits came to gether at the end of the line of passengers, the guard went into action with his shotgun and blew the heads off both of them. The passengers took back their valu ables, the gold was put back in its box and the stage resumed its journey. . In the days of the Old West, such incidents were not uncom mon. But still robbery went on. Bad men took their chances. This thought in closing: FEAR even the fear of death doesn't seem to deter BAD men from crime. Fear of the long arm of the law doesn't seem to deter them. Crime goes on. What to do? We might try more MORAL TEACHING. More stress on the Commandments: Thou Shalt Not Steal. Thou Shalt Not Kill. More emphasis on MORAL RECTI TUDE. It MIGHT work. Washington Okays Anti-Strike Bill OLYMPIA (AP) An anti strikebreaker bill was passed 68 17 by the House with relatively little debate Sunday night. The measuro was sent back to the Senate for concurrence in a House amendment, which in creased the crime for importing strikebreakers from a misdemean or to a gross misdemeanor. The Senate had changed it the other way from a gross misde meanor lo a misdemeanor before it passed the bill, Substitute SB 247, earlier in the week. Under the bill, it would be un lawful for any person, firm or corporation not directly involved in a labor strike or a lockout to recruit and bring into the state any person to take the place of an employe on strike or locked out. Pickets could not be brought in, cither. The original measure would al so have made it illegal for a per son to offer himself as a replace ment for a person out on strike. . .When the bill passed the Senate, Sen. Robert Bailey, South Bend Democrat, said it was drafted to prevent in Washington a situation iilfA ItlA nna thai APfMI llH I Portland during the recent news in 'paper sirme. James MarloW JFK's Aides May Be Smart, But They Won't Be Writers WASHINGTON (AP) - It start-! intends to forbid officials of his ed with the maids and cooks and now it's all the way up to the generals. President Kennedy last October laid down eight basic rules on morality and ethics in govern ment which he said he would fol low if elected. One of them said no emnlove of the executive branch could use his official position for financial profit or personal gain. two days alter taking office he set up a three-man committee to study ethical standards and prac tices in me government. ihen in February a former White House seamstress, Lillian Rogers Parks, came out with a book on her experiences in the executive mansion. Kennedy s White House aides took steps to see that such a thing doesn't happen again. the day belore publication of the former seamstress' book, Pi erre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, said all the present do mestic and personal help at the White House had signed a pledge they will not write about their jobs. Kennedy also laid down a rule about gifts to the White House but at this moment there's a little uncertainty about it. This writer, hearing that any gift over $15 must be returned and any under that must be given to charity, asked Salinger if this is right. He said it was. But another writ er told Salinger he thought the rule was that any gift over $35 had to be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution. Salinger said, come to think of it, maybe that was it. He said it was too late in the day to flndiond hand traditional Harvard out for sure. I chair and would send it to him. But Monday Kennedy went far beyond all this. Salinger told newsmen Kennedy Hal Boyle Judy Advises Don't Tweak NEW YORK (AP) "The shark is a much maligned crea ture." said Judy Joye, one of America's top girl skin divers. "Dnes are far mnr rianfiprmie than sharks. You are much more!" doi"8- They don't have much likely to be bitten by a dog." e'se to do," she said. to prove her point the intrepid Miss Joye,. a glamorous brunette who doubles as a model and un derwater stunt swimmer, hopes to become the first woman in his tory to hand-feed a shark for a television audience. Her performance will be fea tured on "llarineland Circus," an NBC-TV color program Sunday, April 2. ' "So far as I know I'll not only be. the first woman ever to try to hand-feed a shark but the first woman ever to want lo," she remarked namely, Judy, who has plunged to 130: feet and . is one of the nation's! few feminine welders on under water salvage jobs, is full of facts and figures on shark lore. A big danger, she said, is that some of the seven million U.S. skin divers have taken to trying to hitchhike rides on the backs of sharks, or playfully tweaking their tails. "It has become a kind of sport with them. They have the idea sharks are tame," she said. "Thev're not tame, and they don't like having their tails tweaked. They can be provoked to attack But Judy pointed out that in 1959 only 10 unprovoked shark at- lartlre vnoiltincf in llirea .Inillie had been recorded in American wntpi' Thp world lotal fnr thpildle. same year: 36 unprovoked at tacks, 13 deaths. 4't?liQi-Vo olwat-i rlacpt-i-a Hip ill. most respect," she said. "Butr'c" " inpugni iinnnisnea. they are basically scavengers who I Jlldy "nal advlce ' skl" prefer dead or dying game, and ; divers: don't like to attack anvthing lhat1, J:et ,h,e shark alone. Don t try , : to joy ride on his back. Don t i administration to make speeches or write articles for pay unless they give it to charity. And Silinger let it be known Kennedy intends to tighten up an old Pentagon directive to prevent members of ' the armed forces from cashing in on stories of their experiences, except after they re tire. There Is such a ban now but there have been frequent exemp tions. Salinger said the new pol icy will apply to all government people over whom the President has authority. Kennedy also laid down a rule for himself in that speech last Oc tober. - Explaining what he'd do about gifts if he became presi dent, he said: "All gifts which cannot be appropriately refused such as gifts from public or ganizations or foreign government to the President of the United States shall immediately - be as signed to the Smithsonian Insti tution or other federal agencies for historical, scientific or wel fare uses. The president must set an example." In February the Irish ambas sador presented him with a 200- year-old silver christening cup from County Wexford, Ireland, where Kennedy s great-grandfather lived. Kennedy in turn gave the am bassador for the people of County Wexford a piece of plank from the inaugural platform on which he took his oath as president Jan. 20. The next day freshmen at Ken-1 nedy's old school, Harvard, which he has been denuding of profes sors to help him in the govern ment, said they had bought a sec They said they'd bke it to stay in the White House so future pres idents from Harvard could use it. Skin Divers, Shark's Tail will put up a real fight unless tney are desperate. "They are extremely curious and will follow a skin diver for a whole day just to see what he But if you ignore the shark he'll usually ignore you." What if he doesn't? Here are Miss Joye's tips to avoid troubles with sharks of all kinds: "Try to look, as much like a human being and as little like a fish as possible. The shark doesn't really like the taste of people. He prefers the taste of fish, which has been his diet for millions of years. "If he bites you, it is probably in error he has mistaken you for a fish. "Therefore avoid swimming in cloudy water where the visibility is low if a shark approaches too near, wave your arms and legs vigorously and yell. Pick up a couple of rocks and knock them together. "Usually this sound will drive him away. Then head for shallow water. "If he slill comes toward you ana you can t make it lo shore swim straight toward him, yell i as ln,lld as 'ou. can' and h!1 ihlm on ,,he nose hls most sensl- j " sPot- , . Better use a .rock if one is - n,,"u-Y; "ls h wugn, ana i , vrti, clr,L-a him nrifh -nnt. tmt t vou strike him with vour fist it i likp hitlintr wpl canrtnanpr 1 "If he circles back to attack, dive to Ihe bottom. Nine out of times sharks attack on tne sur But 80 per cent of the time you can predict what sharks will do. The other 20 per cent " she tweak his tail. He simply doesn't like it. It insults his dignity." Dual Jeopardy Denied By Garrett Prosecutor PORTLAND (AP) The prose cution Monday denied defense contentions that Mrs. Joseph L. Garrett of Portland was placed in double jeopardy by a new in dictment that charged her with first degree murder in the death of three of her daughters. The reply by Ihe state had been ordered by Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding in an attempt to speed up lengthy hearings. There was no immediate comment from the judge. Mrs. Garrett. 33, a former Dal las. Tex., socialite, was arrested after a fire swept through her home here last fall, killing three of her daughters, Gaye, 5 months, Vickie. IS months, and Angela, 3., The first indictment on a charge of first degree murder accused her of the death of Gave. She was acquitted in that trial. A short time later, another In dictment was returned against her, charging her with the death of Angela. It is on that second indictment lhat defense attorneys have claimed double jeopardy. Georgia-Pacific Must Give Plan WASHINGTON (AP) The VS. Korest Service said Monday that Georxis-Pacific Corn, must submit plans by July 1 for -a pulp mill in niHMta, in itise u.i pieiuuinniy award of 7.5 billion hn;ir.1 lec't of timber in the Tongass National Korest. The final award would obligate the lirm lo build the mill bv July, m. However, in its annual report , recently. Ihe fin" mentioned the ; matter and said lhat "market pos- nihilities cst doubt on the eco jnnmie fraihilitv of our making this commitment.' Reader Woman Says Officers Should Get Sympathy To The Editor: Ynn have had many letters from the SSSAAP League The Save i,jm raiding my fruit cupboard. Steve Solovich At Any Price: only this is the way it would League. turn out: Perhaps those of us who do not jd step out on the breezeway agree with this group should voice j some dark evening for a can of our opinions. Perhaps our law en-1 peaches. There would be Steve forcement officers, risking their j with a can of my best dill pickles lives in an attempt to protect the I jn one hand, and his gun in the public, should be offered some of , other. I'd scream. He'd shoot me the sympathy and hero worship land make off with the pickles, now being lavished on the fugitive. Then the SSSAAP League people The officers undertook tnis man- hunt "because of pressure from some of the residents of the area off which Solovich is making his living, 'they could manage lo spare the food he steals, but they are tired of moving in continual fear of stumbling upon him and being shot. They fear ior their children. The Solovich supporters would say that he wouldn't shoot a woman or child, but how do they know that? The people who work in hospitals with neuropsychia tries don't know what the patients are apt to do. The residents who considered this man dangerous and asked that he be captured certainly had just cause, but now the posse must be actually hamp ered by a wave of unthinking sym pathy motivated largely by hero worship of a "mountain man." It is said he is "living off the land." That is far from being true. He is living off the efforts of many a thrifty housewife and farmer stealing sheep and kil ling Uncle Sam's livestock. And he's living well! I feel very sorry for the men who are doing the chasing and give them my sympathy and support for what it is worth. They have a problem. If they kill him they lose. If they don't catch him they lose. And they are critized by another group and will lose if they do capture him. I agree with Mrs. Stearns who suggested . a tran quillizer gun. The men who are participating in this manhunt are men who are in full possession of their mental faculties. They know worry, fear, indecision all of the harrowing emotions of which Big Steve, be cause of his limited mental capa city, probably is largely incap able. I doubt if he is suffering greatly, unless it Is from missing a few meals. In fact, he is prob ably having the time of his life. In closing, I wish fo say to the SSSAAP Leaaue that I'm not join ing them and that they'd better keep their hero away from tne Needle Mike Tap Evidence Illegal WASHINGTON (AP) The Su preme Court here threw out the gambling convictions of three men because police obtained evi dence by driving a "needle micro phone" into the wall of a house. In' a unanimous decision, the high court held that this amount ed to unauthorized physical pene tration into the house in violation of the Constitution's bar against unreasonable search and seizure. The court said it was not ruling on the broader question of gen eral use of electronic devices to gather evidence but without phys ical penetration of premises. The case before the high court was that of Meyer Schwartz of Pittsburgh and Julius Silverman and Robert L. Martin of Wash ington. They were convicted in 1938 of conducting a gambling operation in a house here near the State Department. Each was sentenced to 20 months to Ii years imprisonment The house was of the row lype Police listened in from the house! uuvmc wuaL is: known as a spike or needle micro phone into the wall. Peter Townsend, Wife Expecting First Child LONDON" (AP) Peler Town send and the Belgian girl he mar ried after Princess Margaret said no are expecting their first child early this summer. Townsend, 45. has two sons bv his first marriage. He and his 21 -year -old wife, Marie -Luce make their home in Paris, where Townsend buys wines for American firm. an Please Consider This A Sunday Vocal Music Pi You Are Cordially Invited To Attend REVIVAL Services WINSTON MENNONITE CHURCH East End Suksdorf Sr Winston NIGHTLY 7:30 . . . SUNDAYS 7:00 PM SUN., MAR. 5, thru SUN., MAR. 12 Evangelist JOE ESH (Mt. Vernon, Pa.) Pastor, Roy E. Hosteller, OS 9-5426 Opinions door' of our cabin away off up here in the wilds of ine Norm Umpqua. Because, though I don't know one end of a gun from the other, and won't even kill a spider. I'd trv to shoot him if I caught would say, "Tsk, iski ine silly woman shouldn't have screamed. she forced him to shoot!" Helen Davis Toketee Falls Rt. Idleyld Park, , Ore. ' Interference Blamed In Solovich Case To The Editor: , I approve one hundred per cent with the letter from Sirs. Hugh Jones published in The News-Review. If the ones who were going to take Steve Solovich away from the hospital and put him in a cabin on the Foster place on the North Umpqua River or any other cabin in the mountains, had minded their own business, Big Steve would still be in the hospital. And I feel he would have been much happier than he is now. Certainly we would have been saved much expense and worry to so many people. Mrs. Perry J. Wright Toketee Falls Rt. Idleyld Park, Ore. Halleck Says Many To Bs Disenchanted WASHINGTON (AP) House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck declared today that mil lions who voted . Democratic are going to be disenchanted and dis appointed with the Kennedy ad ministration and Republicans will recapture the White House in 1964. The Indiana Republican decried what he called doubletalk on the New Frontier and said he expects "a siesta . on the New Frontier," as far as Congress is concerned. Speaking before a gathering of some 1.500 delegates at the 9th annual Republican Women's Con ference, Halleck said the millions who voted Democratic were going to be disappointed because the New Frontier of the administra tion is calling for billions of dol lars for new programs and at the same time trying to balance the budget. . He said 1 the administration is launching "vast do good pro grams" involving something for everybody and at the same time talking of sacrifices that the peo ple can make for their country. Halleck and Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirkscn of U linois, main, speakers at the open ing business session today, said Republicans won't be obstruction ists. Rep. Marguerite Stitt Church o( Illinois told the gathering of wom en from across the country that "to lose a national election by less than one-tenth of one per cent is perfectly incredible and I don't want anyone ever again lo tell me the Republican party has to consider itself a minority party ever again." Hearing Due Shedd '"Robbery Suspect BUTTE. Mont. (AP) Clyde innmas l.ntlrhpr yi r,r A honv Ore., will be given a preliminary hearing here Thursday on a charge of participating in Ihe 52,000 holdup of a bank at Shedd, Ore., March 2. He appeared before U.S. District Judge W. D. Murray Monday and an atlorney, John L. Peterson, was appointed to represent him. Gouchcr conferred briefly with Peterson and then was returned to the county jail where he is held under $5,000 bond. Marvin Verne Clark. 23, Jeffer son, Ore., was captured a short time after the robbery. He con fessed, pleaded Eiiiltv. and within 25 hours after Ihe crime, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Personal Invitation To Hear W. E. (Bud) Irvine Of Odessa, Texas In A Series Of Gospel Sermoni At The Church of Christ West First St. Conyonville, Oregon March 8 thru 17 , Each Night At 7:30 P.M. 10:45 A.M. & 7:30 P.M. Sundoy Offering Only
