Published by Southern Oregon Publishing Co. 54S S.E. Main St., Restaurs,- Oregon Charles V. Stanton Editor George Castillo Assistant Editor Member of the Associated Tress, Association, the Audit Bureau o 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 Newi-Ryiew, Roseburg, Ort. Thur., Mor. 23, 1961 CAPITOC MALL By Charles V. Stanton The Oregon Legislature has before it a bill to reduce the land area being secured by the State of Oregon for its Capitol Mall. The existing program tails for acquisition of property north to Mill Creek. This land is partially wooded and is 'proposed in the original plan to be devel oped as a park and to be held for future building if needed. The state presently owns land extending to Union Street. Between Union Street and State Street, on which the Capitol now stands, buildings are being erected to bouse the respective departments of our state government. Prospects are it will be almost entirely occupied by build ings within a comparatively few years. If that happens, and the restrictive bill is adopted, the state government can enlarge its building facilities only by going up. To erect skyscrapers along the mall, in my opinion, is not desirable. North of Union Street, in what is called the D-street tract, the state has been buying private property as it is released by owners. In a -few more years the State of Oregon will be able to convert this area into a beautiful public park adjacent to the Capitol building, state offices, etc., making a very desirable use of the land. Lack Of Vision Costly ' .. But some of our legislators seemingly can't envision future needs. They can't see beyond wood, concrete and steel. They apparently don't hold a park as being of much value, even though the land area may never be needed for building purposes. This lack of vision is a costly thing. We're inclined to look at the proposed public expenditure and shake our heads. We object to spending. money when no immediate return is in prospect. So, there is a possibility that our beautiful Capitol Mall, with its buildings and decorated center area, will be flanked with hamburger joints1 and hawking stands. A shaded area, ideal for park purposes, would be opened for 'commercial development. Once upon a time, as stories go, the land area here in Roseburg contained a beautiful grove between the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and the South Umpqua River, lying south of Mosher street. The area was known as The Grove. It belonged to Aaron Rose; founder of Roseburg. It was undeveloped, except As people had built a track for Fire Department contests and local bicycle and run ning races, had a platform for use in connection with Me morial Day, the Fourth of July and other public observ ances, and wonderful spots for family picnics. Rose had a choice of subdividing the property for building lots or selling it to could have purchased it for a very small sum of money, as money is counted today. But the asking price, $4,000 I believe, was a lot of money in those days. The city couldn't see spending money for something it was getting for nothing. "Old Man Rose can't sell off any of that land," residents contended. He was foolish to believe the city ever would grow, they declared. So we didn't buy a t ract that would have made one of the finest city parks in Ore gon. ' . Large Site Lost Then there was an ambitious proposal to develop what we know today as Umpqua Park. It was earlier known as Alexander park, taking the name of the would-be promoter who was considerably ahead of his time. When he ran into financial difficulties, the city had the chance to pick up the entire area for something like $7,500. But we turn ed down the opportunity. The land was built up for resid ences. Douglas County has spent thousands of dollars for its wonderful fairgrounds property v.hich once could have been procured for a few hundred. We have an organization in Roseburg today trying desperately to secure and develop some park sites. The organization is getting but little support. Some people seemingly are totally unable to look ahead and envision future needs. They can't see beyond the im mediate dollar. They see no value in anything aesthetic. We have good examples right here in Roseburg. Fortunately for the State the late Judge Sawyer or Bend who, despite his age, could peer into the future and who led the way in the prepara tion of a master plan for a Capitol Mall, including the pro posal for the D-street park area. It would be a shame, in my opinion, ever to lose sight of the goal he and his co-workers set for the State of Ore gon in its capitol development project. State House Approves Bill Setting Up Boardman Lease SAI.KM (API-Oregon's House of Representatives voted over whelmingly today for legislation to make it possible for Hoeing Air plane Co. to sign an 80-year lease for the Navy'a bombing range at Boardman In Eastern Oregon. The vole was 58 to 7. A compan ion measure, with a $900,000 ap propriation, was passed 56 to 4. Boeing has indicated it wants In use the site for testing rockets and missiles, but legislators ex pressed hope It would develop into a big industrial complex. Of the $900,000, $400,000 would he spent to move the bombing range southward inlo Lake Coun ty. Another $400,000 would be giv en lo the Navy to compensate il for the difference in values .be tween the two sites. And $100,000 would be spent (or appraisals. These figures are approximate pending appraisals. It is hoped that the lease might be signed by next December. Rep. Sidney Bazctt, R. Grants Pass, told the House that "this is a breakthrough of the major bar riers Uial have kept industry out of Ihe stale." Bui Rep. George Van Hoomls sen, DPortland, argued thai "il Addye Wright Business Mtnagtr Oregon Newspaper Publishers' the city for a park. The city of Oregon we had men like ' is a give away of public land." Hep. Edward N. Fadcley, DEu- gene, said the state's interest is I not protected. Boeing would pay $60,000 a year rental. Rep. Clarence Barton. IV Coqmlle. pointed out the land is producing nothing now. Barton said Boeing nerds the i space and prospects are good it will be of benefit both 10 Boeing and In the state. "This is a risk both for the stale and for Boeing," Barton said, "but these are the risks t hat dreams are, made of. Thev will I make Oregon strong. By taking ; such risks, Boeing has grown into I a business that hires 65,000 per sons in Seattle." Souths Papers Win LEXINGTON. Ky. (AP) - The North won, but the Sooth's news paper gave a better picture of the Civil War. They printed more artirlrs "showing the spirit of !h times," says Richard Harwell, associate executive director of the Ameri can Library Association, In The Days News y FRANK Government economy note: Postmaster General Day says in Washington this week he won't re store twiceaday mail delivery. He has two reasons: 1. He doesn't want to. 2. Congress tells him he can't have the 176 million dollars a year it would cost. That's what might be called a meeting of the minds. A lot of us taxpayers out in the brush wish there could be more such meetings. This modern world note: In one of our big Mid-Western cities the other day an unemployed worker was caught trying to put phony quarters in a juke box to g.!t himself a little music to cheer his day. He was arrested and charged with possessing counterfeit money. When he came up for trial, he testified that on Frebruary 28 he drew a $90 relief check, cashed it and made a round of the neighbor hood taverns. In the course of his round, he said, he probably picked up a couple of bogus quarters with out noticing it. Anyway, he testified, he didn't know he was pushing counterfeit money. The jury found him guilty. Court officials estimated the cost of the case, including indictment, incarceration and trial, ran some where between $750 and $2,000. This estimate upset the judge, who re marked: "1, personally, don't un derstand why such a case was pre sented to the grand Jury." He then sentenced the culprit to ONE HOUR in the custody of the U.S. Marshal. Comment? Let's so along wilh Seneca, the James Mario w Kennedy Urges New Way Of Handling Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (AP) In Hit name of tidiness and more mile age Piesident Kennedy has pro posed a new way of handling for eign aid. It's a disorderly mess now, .with a history that goes way back. Congress bought Secretary of State George C. Marshall's Idea in June, 1947 when he, suggested a program of aid to huropean countries to gel them back on their feet after the war and save them from communism. But when Congress sel this for eign aid program in motion tne next year it took it out from un der Marshall's wing and created a new agency, the Economic Co operation Administration, under Paul G. Hoffman. This was just one more step In a story which started back in the war years: Taking more and more control away from the Stale Department in foreign dealings and scattering it around Wash inglon. ' In time .Europe began bursting wilh prosperity and the aid pro gram shifted course, wilh help go ing to backward countries. Mar shall's original idea is now world wide and there is no end to for eign aid in sight. Since the end of World War II. I lie United Slates has spent $85.8 billion in such aid, of which $110.4 billion was in economic help, $25.4 billion in military assistance. Just last week the Scnale ap proved this . country's joining OECD Organization for Econom ic Cooperation and Development a 20-uatinn group. Through it ' this country and Its friends and allies can work out their own economic and trade problems while sharing in aid to tne underdeveloped nations. The United Slates and its Euro pean allies have been spending about $7 billion a year to help the worlds needy nations, with the American share being more than half. The Communists spend about $715 million a year. Meanwhile, there was the prob lem, growing through the years. The Cartoonist Says: "Don't Look Back Someone's JENKINS I.atin Stoic philosopher, who wrote about 2.000 years ago in his Epis tles: "What fools these mortals be!" The line was so good that some 1500 years later William Shake speare picked it up (inadvertently, let us assume) and put it in the mouth of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He added one word to Seneca's version, causing Puck to say: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Anyway, the line bits the nail on the head. , From Geneva: The Big Three nuclear "lest ban resumes here today with the U.S. and Britain ready to offer a new package plan for a quick treaty. The Soviets say they are standing pat on their old proposals for the time being. Comment? Let's let Dr. Edmund Teller, our noted H-bomb physicist, supply it. He said at a University of Califor nia alumni banquet last night: "The present moratorium on nu clear testing might well prove CATASTROPHIC for the United States. The situation under which we have foregone all testing and hence all significant weapons ad vancement during the past two and a half years, with no means of knowing the Soviets have done like wisemight well prove disastrous for us." Amen, sir. If it should turn out that while we have been sitting honestly tight and doing no testing the Soviets had gone on testing secretly and had perfected a fantastically de structive new bomb and had hidden it out on us, it would indeed be catastrophic. of scattered control over Ameri can efforts in the foreign field. Last February a Senate sub committee staff report ' com plained of the Washington "foul up factor:" The result of the growth of so-called inter-agency coordinating committees. These committees give dozens of deparlmcnts and offices a hand in making policy. The report de plored the dilution of the secre tary of state's responsibilities. Kennedy has been abolishing a number of committees and he proposed Wednesday that all for eign aid except the military kind which would be handled by the Defense Department be put un der one agency. And he proposed to Congress that the administrator of this agency should report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the President. Rusk would cooHinate wilh the economic aid the military assist-- ante administered by Ihe Defense Department. As an example of wnar jenneay was taiKing about, here's what he said: "I propose that our separate and Often contusing aid programs be integrated into a single admin istration embracing the present Washington and Held operations of: "The Intprnalihnal Cooperation Administration (the successor .to the agency which handled the Marshall Plan) and all its tech nical assistance (Point Four) and other programs: the Development Loan Fund; the food for peace program in us relations with oth er countries, while also recogniz ing its essential role in our farm economy; the local lending ac tivities of the Export-Import Bank; the Peace Corps, recog nizing its distinctive contribution beyond the area of economic de velopment: the donation of non- agricultural surpluses from other national stockpiles of excess com modities or equipment; all other related start and program serv ices now provided by the Depart ment or Male as well as K A. Kuykendall Refuses To Relinquish Post WASHINGTON (AP) Jerome, if. Kuvkendall. a Republican, shows no sign of relinquishing his post as chairman of the Federal Power Commission in favor of President Kennedy's selection. Kuykendall, chairman since 1953, is reported to feel he has a right to the post until bis current term expires June 22, 1962. Kuykendall, a former chairman of the Washington State Public Service Commission, was former President Dwight D. Eisenhow er's first appointment to the com mission. Kennedy'! choice for chairman is Joseph Charles Swid ler of Nashville, Tenn. Only the question of the chair manship is involved. Kuykendall would remain on the commission even if he relinquished the chair to Swidler. Kuykendall's reluctance to yield, House Passes Bill Setting Up Work Relief Program For Cities SALEM (AP) The Oregon House voted 49-11 here for a bill setting up regulations for the work relief program, and to let cities take advantage of it. The bill goes to the Senate. More than 20 counties have pro vided work relief for welfare re cipients. Opponents, fearing the program would result in loss of jobs of reg ular county and city workers, tried various parliamentary moves to kill it. The bill provides that any wel fare recipient who refused to ac cept a work relief job would be stricken from the rolls. The bill contains a provision that these re cipients would not take anybody's regular ob, but opponents called it meaningless. They made three different mo tions to send the bill to various committees, but all were badly beaten. . Rep. Winton Hunt, RWoodburn, argued that the work relief pro gram "has a therapeutic value for the people involved. It makes a welfare client a breadwinner for his family and not a recipient of a dole. The bill would salvage hu man beings, and give them a feel Texas Residents Offer Aid To Auto Accident Victims TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) Critically injured in separate automobile accidents, Carl Tune, 46, and his wife, 44, for weeks have been un conscious in the same room of a Temple hospital. Two daughters of the popular couple hover nearby constantly, aware that their parents' physi cian, Dr. James Pettigrew, ex pects no immediate improvement in their condition. The girls, Janet, 18, and Kay, 20, have dropped out of college to be with their parents. Neither Tune nor his wife have shown im provement since they lapsed into unconsciousness. The community has rallied to their aid. Tune was injured last Doc. 8 when he was struck by an auto mobile as he walked to work. Mrs. Tune, a registered nurse at the hospital, cared for him in off hours. He suffered a head injury and multiple fractures Mrs. Tune and Janet were eniruri rr;j.-, t..... n i: i 1- Tl . fr ,i i e lUUie III JCIIIUII, .u.l.il f when the car Janet was driving overturned. Mrs. Tune suffered a critical head injury. Kay left her studies at North Texas State in Denton. Janet dropped out of Temple Junior College. Both wanted to be near their parents and they were need ed to care for their brother, Carl. Jr., 13, who continued in school here. The Tunes are well known in central Texas for their work wilh young people and the ill. He was a member of the Temple Quarter - Gaining" mm sources here report, is based in' part on a recent report by James .M. Lanms, special presidential as sistant on regulatory agencies. The report raised the point of the president's right to designate the FPC chairman and indicated clarification was needed There have been published re ports Kuykendall has obtained a legal opinion holding Kennedy could not remove him from the chair until the end of his term. Kuykendall himself has not pub licly expressed any view on the matter. . The White House view has not been fully disclosed. Last month, Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said these had been some discussions with Kuykendall. Salinger declined to say what the talks involved, indicating there might be a statement on the issue later. ing of being wanted." But Rep. Ed Benedict, D-Port-land, countered that the bill is too strict because it would provide for loss or welfare benefits for viola tion of any rules and regulations that might be set up. x Benedict said "this is just sub sistence welfare, not a real work program." Those who take these work re lief jobs usually get SI an hour. Other protesters said it would increase costs for the counties and cities. The bill also provides that those under the program could not col lect unemployment benefits. . The big income tax legislation, approved Tuesday night by the House Taxation Committee, was ordered on Friday's House calen dar. It levies a net income tax, reduces rates, and eliminates nearly all deductions. The bill, previously defeated 30 27 by the House, has been amend ed so that charitable deductions would be allowed. The House Local Government Committee voted for a resolution to create an interim committee to make a two-year study of proh lems of metropolitan government. , back Club, officiated at Golden Gloves bouts, and helped with the Little League program in the area. He worked at the American Desk Co. and was known as an avid sports fan Mrs. Tune was graduated at llicilury l atloP' a bab'?.If w do; King's Daughters Hospital School of Nursing here and had been night supervisor of nurses at Scotti and While Hospital for sev eral years. The Communications Workers of America, a union with which the family had no connections, started a fund drive for the chil dren, without income since their parents were hospitalized. Local cafes began donating cof fee sales to the family. Railroad employes joined in the drive. So did King's Daughters Hospital. After 10 days, there was $1,600 for Kay, Janet and Carl Jr. "It's gratifying to see even strangers open tneir Hearts". commented vnn a.coiucmi iiiiru i uill llliauil Little Chance Seen For Tax Reduction WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy s lop economic adviser said here Ihe chance of a White House request for temporary lax! reduction has lessened as signs of a uiisuiess jiupiuveiiieni nave'Wlin a new sense oi luiumiieni. multiplied. I Others ask dubiously. "Do you rhnirmnit Waller W Hollar nt near mailt, nulla Oat in (hint nf , (le president's Council of Eco nomic Advisers una rue women s National Press Club there is evi - dence of "some improvement" ahead. Almost all the business indica- tors which normally rise in ad - vance ot a general economic up turn have gone up, but only mod erately, he said. Afler his talk he was asked: "Are the odds for or against Ihe administration going to congress for a temporary tax cut?" Heller lammed and observed that "he hadn't made book on this question before." hut went on: "I would say that the odds are not very strongly in favor of a tax cut," Heller replied. ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SPEEDWRITING SHORTHAND GREGG 'SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING ACCOUNTING FILING AND INDEXING Night School Discontinued Indefinitely 619 S. E. Cast Avenue Licensed and Bonded by the Stole of Reader Flood Control Needed To The Editor: Something 1 have never been able to understand is why, when a creek or river goes on a rampage I destroying property, even causing death, there seems to be no one to whom we go to have anything done about the situation. One day several years ago, w hen I the County Court was composed of Judge Busenbark and Commission-1 ers Roadman and Hutchinson, I' stopped them while they were on tour east of Sutherlin. f asked if there was anything they could do to Help in tne flood situation arouno Sutherlin. They shook their heads and said the county court was without authority. Furthermore, in their opinion, the country was too flat to be suitable for flood control. It is my own understanding that when a country is flat there is no movement lo the water. Here, How ever, the water seems to move at a good clip. We found, later on, that there is a drop of ten feel per mile in Sutherlin Creek. That, I insist, is not flat. If a way is provided for water lo escape, it will do so. Also we can aid by building dams to hold back water for use when we need it in the summer. That is why we need water control, not only in Sutherlin but in all of Western Ore gon. This last flood was again a sad reminder how critically we need flood control. Very few people in Roseburg and elsewhere realize how close they came to disaster. With this last flood we had two inches of rain in Tiller. The river was bank full. What would have happened to Roseburg if Tiller had had nine inches of rain in 36 hours as happened east of Sutherlin and farther north? r Must we have a disaster, pos sibly drown some people, destroy a lot of property before a dam is said to be feasible? We can look at Drain, Cottage Grove, Harrisburg. Jefferson, and other spots. We can learn there something about the damage a flood can do. They don't like to talk about it because none of us likes to talk about damage to his own home town. I always hated lo see flood pictures showing boats on the streets of Sutherlin published on front pages of newspapers. But I have changed my mind. We need more pictures so people can see what floods really are like. Can you imagine what your house Hal Bovle Learning To Love Adopted Child Takes Time A Full 24 Hours NEW YORK (AP) "Should we how do we know it will work out all right? What if it should turn out to be a mistake?" Millions of childless American couples ask themselves those questions. Many have asked my wife, Frances, and ine these same questions since we adopled a 5-week-old daughter, Tracy Ann, nearly eight years ago. Our answer invariably js: "Don't worry about it being a mistake. If you have an urge lo adopt a child, the biggest mistake you can make is to delay or dawdle. The sooner you set about making an adoption, the njore years you'll have to enjoy the child." People who have never adopled a child have some weird ideas on this subject. For example, they often mis takenly praise you by saying. "That's a wonderful thing you're doing to take a strange infant into your home and treat it as I your own. Actually, ot course, in nisi me other way around. It is the child that is doing you a favor by widening and deepening your life lan adopled child as your own tlesh and blood? j The answer to this is, "Yes, i but it does take time." In our I own case it took a full 24 hours. Since then we have been blind- 1 ly and positively and overwhelm ingly certain I racy Ann is our very own daughter in every way. That is the greatest miracle of adoption. You don't wonder or doubt afterward.' You are wonder fully, wonderfully sure you have done the right thing. You might kind of wish von had done it ear her except for one thing if you had you might have missed get-1 getting the perfect child you now! have. I "Bui aren't you afraid you i ANNOUNCES SPRING TERM Starting Monday, March 27 ENROLL NOW Opinions would look like if bom one to four feet of muddy water went through it? And what it would look like wilh two or three inches of mud everywhere? Let's all work together for flood control and preserve our soil and waler supply, il's not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for your country that counts, as President Kennedy has told us. Andy Hemoenim Rt. 1, Box 181 Sutherlin. Ore. Ex-Resident Remembers Arrival Of DeHivilands Someone bless his or her heart sent me the Feb. 27th issue of The News-Review (Progress Edi tion). It interested me greatly, i I grew up in Roseburg, from the second grade (in the old red brick Rose school, up on the hill) through the second year in Roseburg High School. 1 attended another year of high school in Eugene, .then re turned to Roseburg to work in the store department of the Southern Pacific Railway. I should like to make one correc tion. The first airplane came to Roseburg long before 1924. 1 re member the occasion well. I was in the 7th or 8th grade at Rose school when some kid saw a plane through a window. As this was the first plane most of us had ever seen, he let out a shriek. In a few moments the school was a bed lam! No one could control those kids. We raced out of school and followed the plane, running our hearts out, to the north end of the city and then turned around and ran madly back again. The plane I think there were two U. S. Army DeHavilands landed in a field south of the city. I think most of the kids ran all the way out there. Now as I was a young man of 18. and left Roseburg in July of 1923 for the Navy, the year that the first plane came to Roseburg must necessaiily hve been about five vears previous to this or in 1917-18. Jay and John Wright are men tioned under one picture. I remem ber them well, having gone to school wilh Jay . Wright's young son and daughter at Perdue (now Milo) one winter. My mother grew up in the Days Creek area and in later life married Leonard L. Per due for whose fam'ly the town of Perdue was named. Merlin (Sandv) Hastings. 66 N.E. 172nd St. N. Miami Beach, Fla. might get a child with latent de fects?" some people inquire. Well, so far as I know evei-y child born since the beginning of time had latent defects of some kind of body, mind or tempcr ment, which show up sooner or later. That's no sound reason cither for fearing to have a child, or to adopt one. ' v Look at the world of grownups around you. Do you know of a single one without a defect, large or small? But most of them still find life worth living. As a matler of fact when we got Tracy Ann, her defects were pretty obvious. She couldn't stand up, speak a word of English or even write her own name. All she did was lie in her crib all day kicking her chubby feet in the air, making odd noises and wail ing for someone to do something for her. At the age of 8 she lias out grown these early defects, and acquired others which in time we feel she will outgrow too. The truth is that those we love endear themselves lo us almost as much hy their small defects as by their shining virtues. And chil dren do a wonderful service for adults. By letting us care for them they tend to cure us of our own defects of selfishness and blind preoccupation wilh our own interests. They keep our world bright and young. Living itself is a gamble, and if you want a child and and can't have one, the best gamble you can lake is to adopt one. It isn't too big a gamble. Of the sources of parents 1 know who have adopted children, I have yet to meet one who regretted it. TONIGHT ON CHANNEL MY THREE SONS 9 DICTAPHONE BUSINESS MACHINES ENGLISH II BUSINESS MATH Oregon OR 3-7256