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EDITORIAL PAGE 4 Th News-Review, Roseburg, MAKING HEADWAY By George Castillo ' Douglas County's water problems are far from solved,; but the efforts to solve them are progressing even though tie pains haven't been spectacular yet. i The last five years have been ones of study, and sev-' era! of those studies are almost completed. That means vie, should be getting down to cases before long. Even though the developments haven't been spectacular! Vet, it's evident the progress has been considerably faster than m other basins which have secured dams in the past. William Tugman of Gardiner, once editor of the Euiene Register-Guard, said recently many years possed from the I time efforts were launched until the first dam was approved in the Willamette Valley. 1 Douglas County, through hard work of the Douglas j County Water Resources Advisory Committee and county Water Resources Survey, has telescoped much of the great I amount of time between idea and realization. This has been j done by the committee as, a pressure group and a sounding fioard of interest from people iirthe county. It has been' done by the survey office through its duties as a clearing house for information among agencies and its duties of get-! ting information quickly to any agency or group which need- ed it. ! I' ' . n i-J I rnvenrory neporrca ; Here's an inventory of the progress which has been made so far: Xi 1. The Soil Conservation Service has completed a gen ral survey of the Sutherlin Creek watershed which has been introduced! to the Sutherlin Water Board. The board has asked the SCS team to work out cost figures of alter nates which would include either two or three small im poundments. If either is approved the cost of the dams for 6olh irrigation and flood control could be paid for by the property owners of the area and the federal government iinder its Small Watersheds Act. ' 2. Bureau of Reclamation came out with a general re port on the basin in 1956. Since then, it has been working Oil studies on individual damsites. ; It follows a method of first taking a general study, then a more detailed study called reconnaissance which deter mines definitely if a final extremely detailed study should be made. The final study is called a feasibility study. ,, f It has just completed its feasibility study on a proposed dam on Olalla Creek southwest of Winston. If it proves to 1)8 feasible for irrigation, flqod control, recreation and mu nicipal water impoundment, the next step will be to get the Bureau to include it in its requests for funds to Congress. This would be a giant stride in a period of five or six years. It has also completed reconnaissance studies on pro posed dams on the South Unipn.ua river above Tiller and one on Calapooia Creek near Oakland. Neither, so far, ap pears to offer solid possibilities of being called probably feasible. Next year, the bureau says, it plans to start a recon naissance study on a proposed damsile on Cow Creek. Study End Noars 3. The U. S. Army Corps of engineers may finish , its countywide study of the basin for flood control and navi gation within a six-month period if all goes well. Last year, it indicated it could finish the job with $50,000. It received $25,000 and in the President's budget, another $25,000 is being asked this year. If the budget amount is approved, it will allow the Corps to finish perhaps by December. These are the major studies being carried on, but sev eral others are going ahead in conjunction with them. One such is a joint effort by the stale Game Commission and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Another is being cohducted by the U. S. Public Health Service. These studies indicate Douglas County is doing well in ' the long haul to control its water before it is too late. Hat Boyle Pennsylvania Dutch Have A Novel Cure For Hiccups NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didn't open his mail: The most novel cure for hiccups we've ever heard of was one used by the Pennsylvania Dutch. You went out the front door and ran around the house nine times while thinking of fox. ( Even if the cure failed, it sure did build up your appetite.) There is no English word that rhymes with "oblige." Does the government owe you money?. Uncle Sam would like to find and pav the forgetful peo ple who hold $458,862,250 worlh of U.S. bonds and securities that have long passed their maturity dales and no longer draw impr est. The figure includes $27.8ii9 from a government issue that came duo before 1800. Insomnia hits most of us at one time or another, but about three nut of 100 persons suffer from an opposite iiilment, narcolepsy. They can't stay rwake. (We only hac this trouble during working hours:) Sign on door of 1 home housing several children: "Neighborhood children! Please don't knock. We're eating, resting or busy. Come bark when this sign is down. Thanks. The Management." Our Quotable Notables: "It isn't so much that hard limes are com ing; the change observed is most ly soft times going." Groucho Mnrx. In Kashmir among one sect the bride slays away from her own wedding. ..But vends a represen tative. The representative is 1 camel. During lhe Sixth Century il was ruslumary for man to give his hetroihed I ring, a pair of shoes, and a kiss. The ring symbolically was supposed lo keep her hands from mischief, the shoes to keep her from being footloose, and the The News Publiihed by Southern Oreoon Publithine Co, S4J S. E. Main St., Roieburo, Oregon CHARLES V. STANTON Editor GEORGE CASTILLO Managing Editor Slember of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation tnlered as second class mailer Way 7, 1920, at the po4 office at Rotehurg, Oregon, tinder ct of March 2, 1871 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertising Tige ; Ore. Mon., May 1, 1961 kiss lo keep her from talking loo 111 iicn. A statistician has figured, by dividing the production of aspirin tablets into the nalional income, someone gets a headache for ev ery $40 earned in Ibis country. Ever wonder why It doesn't burl when you cut your hair or finger nails?. It's because they have no nerves. The gaielle and, the llama never drink water. Here's anolhcr illusion shat tered: A 10 gallon Texas hat ac tually holds only three fourths of a gallon. The premier of Japan, Hayalo Ikeda, may be the world's clean est polilican. He lakes two hot balhs daily. The Azlec solar calendar con tained 18 months of 20 days, plus a five-day period at the end of the year which was regarded as an unlucky lime. It was Gelett Burgess who ob served, "A person is as old as his j habits." 1 2-Year-Old Boy Dies As Train Hits Auto CORVALI.IS (AP) An auto mobile and a train collided al a crossing near here early Sunday and a 12 year-old hoy who was j riding in the car was killed. J lie was Stephan Herhst. lhe son j of Vein W. Herhst of Corvallis. j The father and another son. Dav- id. 14, were taken to a hospital . fur treatment of injuries. ! The conductor of the Southern 1 Pacilic IreiKht train. Robert till lin of Eugene, said the train was moving at about 12 miles an hour when the Herhst ear entered the crossing at a high rate of speed -Review ADDYE WRIGHT Business Manager DON HAGEDORN Display Adv. Mgr. James Marhw JFK Fares Well At Horn But Not So Good Abroad WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first 1U0 While House days (he picture of 1'residcnl Kennedy gol blurred. lie could point to some victories. But he had suffered depressing set hacks. The victories were all at home in the field he knew: politics and dealing with Congress, ilis set-1 backs were in an area new to him: foreign affairs. , At home he conveyed a sense j of action and attenlion to details,! as in the torrent of proposals to Congress and the executive or-' dcrs he issued. I But abroad he showed hesi ' tancy, as in Laos, and failure to: pay attention to details, as in Cuba. On March 23 he gave a warn ing as Soviel-aupplied, Communist-led guerrillas swarmed down through apathetic Laos: "If those attacks do not stop, Ihose who support a truly neu tral Laos wili have to consider their response." He wanted the Russians to agree to a cease-fire. What hap pened? The Russians stalled, probably laughed, since Laos in Southeast Asia is a nightmare to defend. The result: the guerrillas, ig noring the warning to stop the attacks, continued them, gobbled up more of Laos. It's questionable now that any of Laos can be saved. There's no American mood to commit U. S. troops to the continent of Asia. Besides. Kennedy hasn't psy chologically prepared the nation for getting directly involved in Laos. But if Laos goes, so may Thailand and South Viet Nam. Kennedy himself is pessimistic about saving even South Viet Nam. One thing is certain: all Southeast Asia, where the United Stales has military alliances, is in jeopardy. As for Cuba: the 1,200 or 1,500 man invasion against Kidcl Cas tro would not have been possible without Kennedy's approval. But it was a disaster. The Reader Opinions Roseburg Understands Youth Says Reader To The Editor: Thank you for being a NEWS paper. I've often marvelled at the worldnalionallocal coverage the paper gives. And you recognized that when over 600 youth from around the state assemble in Chris tian concern, that's NEWS. And when such a gathering is both inlerdcnoininalional and interrac ial that is GOOD NEWS. Thank you for balancing lhat oc casional report of youth vandal ism or violation with the splendid coterago of youth committed lo! Christian ideals. j 1 am proud to be a part of a community where youth are un derstood and appreciated. . . and where their noble achievements are NEWS. .lames C. Smith 143 West Lilburn Roseburg, Oregon Head Of Woman found Wrapped In Plastic GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) Three boys found lhe head of a woman wrapped in a plastic bag when they bicycled past a tomato Held Saturday. Police, unable so far lo identify the woman, said the head had been struck six times with a sharp instrument. Coroner Raymond Brandt said the woman had been slain less lhan 12 hours. The body was not found. The Cartoonist Savs: ".-The Whole Truth . mm mi ,.m & men were slaughtered. Castro's strength had been grossly under- estimated. So had the pro-Castro 1 mood of the Cuban people. i That invasion was either worth doing and doing thoroughly, or it should never have been attempt-1 ed. Truth is, it was done far from thoroughly. j But the Kennedy administration: still hasn t revealed publicly what went wrong, who was to blame. Instead of destroying Castro, the invasion failure made him look more the hero, angered some Latin Americans, made friends and foes question Kennedy's judgment. Kennedy is in a contest with Premier Khrushchev. At the end of 100 days, if there's been a win ner so far, it's been Khrushchev. He even undertook, in a mes sage made public for the world to read, to lecture Kennedy on mo rality. Kennedy set out trying to get along with the Russians but in the one field of most direct con tact with them banning nuclear tests there's been only failure. The Russians insist on a vctoi anywhere along the line on any inspection system to prevent cheating once a ban was agreed on. That kills agreement. Kennedy looked better at home where he acted like a lake-charge president, wanted to stay on top of everything, laid down 33 legis lative proposals to Congress. So far, he has suffered no major de feat in domestic' politics. - Already Congress has passed about five of his proposals pretty much as he wanted but the big l ones like medical care lor me ! aged still lie ahead, fate un- known. ! Bui even in Congress, which he knows so well, as the 100 days 'drew to a close some of his own ! Democratic leaders began to grumble. They resented what they considered too much meddling by Kennedy and his strategists in major bills. As a president elecled by the narrowest margin in history and forced to deal with a highly con servative Congress, he was in poor position lo try innovations. He's tried none. He's been mod erate, as if only conservatism had a chance. All in all, he's done all right at home. But that isn't true abroad. Weyerhaeuser Has Drop In Earnings TACOMA (AP) Sales total ing $107,300,000 for the first quar ter of lotil and net income of $7, 265,000 were reported by Weyer haeuser Co. Saturday. The figures compared with $108,125,000 sales and $13,744,000 in net income the first three monlhs of 1960. "The unfavorable trend of sales in I960 continued with increased severity in January and February of the current year, followed by a moderate upturn in .March, (he report said. "The company's building mater ials continued to he depressed by sluggishness in the building in dustry. Prices of lumber and ply wood declined lo low levels dur ing the winter months. Plywood and some grades of construction lumber made substantial recover ies during March in response to increased demand. "Price improvement should be evident in the monlhs to follow." The report also said decreasing demand and the effect of a reduc tion in pulp prices last Novem ber cut into profit margins for market pulp. Containcr-boaro and bleached paperboard prices decreased mod erately hut production held at reasonably favorable levels, with increased proportions being con verted in companv plants into containers and cartons. These lat ter products continued to suffer conditions." Project Start Slated On Dams By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Construction is about lo start on the $72 million Green Peter and Kosler dams on the Middle and South Santiam rivers in Oregon. Army Engineers have called for hiris In he oDened next month. The first will be for about $.500,-1 Several bills in the House and 000 worlh of excavation and road-;one ln ,ne Senate would require building for the Green Peter proj- the approval of Congress before eel. The work willexpose ground' any large tract of public land for the dam's foundation. It alsocould be withdrawn, will widen Vi miles of County 1 Members of Congress from the r9h Qi7 in i.inn fmintv Th hiHc I West, where the federal govern- will be opened at Portland May 22. i Anotner million in road construction will come up for bid opening on May 25 in Portland It calls lor relocation ot 3'a miles of Linn County road No. 912 and:?""1, S"" Interior Public construction of a l'i-mile connec tion to the existing road. The Green Peter Dam, a con crete structure that will produce 90.000 kilowatts of power, will lie located on the Middle Santiam about 5'i miles above its conflu ence with the South Santiam. Fos ter Dam, a gravel and dirt struc ture with a 30,000-kilowatt capa city, will be seven miles down stream. Green Peter will cost about S55 million. Its reservoir will have flood storage capacity of 270,000! acre feet and power storage of 63,000 acre feet. It will be. oper ated as a peaking plant. Foster will be a reregulatir.g dam to smooth out surges in Green Peter's outflow. It will also help in flood control. The cost is estimated at about $17 million. Annual benefits from the dams are estimated at $4,720,800, with $2,093,500 of that in preventing flood damage. Army Engineers estimated it will take three years -to build Foster Dam and 5'j for Green Peter. Winkle Pickers Out At Lloyd's LONDON (AP) "Winkle Pick ers," those long pointed pumps worn by England's young city slickers, and big time insurance just don't go together, rules Lloyd's. And insurancewise, at any rate, Lloyd's should know. You can take out a policy with that august pillar of commercial insurance against the loss of an ocean liner. You can insure there against having twins, against rain on the night of the big fight or even against a libel suit but never darken lhe portals of Lloyd's wearing Italian-style jackets, or tight pants or "winkle pickers." To do so would to be to incur the grave displeasure of the der by bowlered figures of sartorial elegance who govern that ancient institution. In fact, you'd be "bounced." ln a dictate Friday, the super intendent of The Room the name given to the center where some of the world's biggest insurance business is conducted banned all "outlandish fashions." The scarlet-coated messengers who control the entrance to the ' room were told to tell employes' and messengers that such styles are not acceptable and lo refuse entrance to all wearing them. Said one dark-suited member: "We've got to draw the line somewhere, you know. Some ofj these chaps would be turning up , in leather jackets and skin light1 pants if we didn't stop them " I Former Solon Diet PORTLAND (AP) -Former! Republican state representative j John Dickson died at a Portland hospital Sunday at lhe age of 92. Funeral arrangements are pend ing. I ln 1943 at the age of 8i. Dick son won a seat in the Oregon ! House of Representatives. He : served continuously until 1951 'when he retired from politics. ' If Westerners Are Asking To Ride Herd On U. S. By JOHN KAMPS ur ,cuivpTnM ad. iir.... ners are asking Congress to ride ''er'l ovfr 'J M tne" biggest landlord Lncle Sam. I nern over land Brans dv ineiriv merit owns vast acreages, plan to j f.'"m ,v" ? tion on the proposed legislation Ummrina Pramiuil sen. Alan Bible, uiev., cnair- I nnilt enhpnm millpp and ponnn sors of the Senate bill, promised an early hearing. "nprpssarv to nrevent inrlisrrim. Bible said sucn legislation is inate land withdrawal by depart- ments of the federal government without justifying their needs to the Congress." He said a parallel law, applying to muus witnuiawu im luuuai j , hn f'prfaf.lit.plw S,,rtallprl that use, has "effectively curtailed the acquisition of unnecessary tracts of land" by the armed forces. Rep. Walter S. Baring, D-Nev.. author of a House bill, declared "the Constitution of the United States holds the Congress respon sible for the use of the public domain but the Department of the Interior has assumed the respon sibility with the result that gov ernment agencies have withdrawn vast acreages, in many instances beyond their actual needs." More Rigid Control Baring said his bill would "ef fect more rigid control. . . and I inslTe ,ne maximum use of the Dublic domain." The government owns 60,726.336 acres in Nevada 86.4 per cent of the total land area of the state. Sen. E. L. Bartlett. D Alaska, author of the Senate bill, expects a couple of dozen other senators to join in cosponsoring the meas ure. Referring to the law governing withdrawals of public lands for military use, Bartlett said the military had found a gimmick a provision in law permitting them to get exclusive use of land through special use permits. And he said "there remains in all other executive agencies the power to request from lhe Inter ior Department withdrawals of any desired size and duration." lie said lhat in two years 16 such non-military land withdraw als had been made, each exceed ing the 5.000-aere limit which would be set by his and Baring's bills. . He said these withdrawals were in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Idaho and Wyom ing. Would Plug Loophole Bartlett said his bill would plug this loophole. Federal ownership of land ranges from almost zero in Con necticut to 99.3 per cent of the total land area of Alaska. Federal holdings in Alaska amount to 362. 834 of the big State's 365,481,600 acres. You Buy U.S. Savings Bonds The V. S. Government doe. not pay for this adwni.ini. TW Treeeiirv D. pertinent thanks, for their patriotic donation. The Adverting Council ana 'ltM'1 Land ownership figures for oth- pr Western stales (total acreage federal ownership and percent dge "ucl1 California 100,313,600 ; 45,070,-1 898; 44.9. There's Spring And Economy This is the third in a series or Ik... ,r.,i. hnut the inr-reasini! nr Qn mnrni'ind pennomv;oi UUIUII13 in me '",1"": i,i,:, a ! Oregon 0re. Spring is in the air and 00ns prnnomv is on ine rise, nc-1 He- I uorls from many Darts of the State ! indicate that a period of sound and ; steady growlft Set In- '7'""'" - d . ' iKns inlders (or durable goods Kmployment on a de-seasonaI-(out ! ized basis is at an all time high , level, close to the peak reached 'n,iurn'as ,nany business firms are Ine lirsi quarter 01 laov. . .. . r- Three major 1'ortiana nrms ,servalive aa Duageis uiey aau uu have launched expansions totaling ginally drawn up for 1961. $2,500,000. Thev are Hyster Co.,i sales of farm machinery are up (material handling equipment , an(j it js predicted that net farm mfg.); white Stag, (clothing); anu,jn(.ome this year win toiat s nu- Jantzen. (swim suits) Menasha Co. has under construc tion a $5 million pulp mill at Coos Bay. International Paper Company is planning a $30 million pulp and paper mill on the Oregon coast at Gardiner, and has active site stu dies under way for a second mill near Klamath Falls or Roseburg. Western Kraft is building a $500, 000 paper bag plant at Beaverton. Steel Plant Due Fought and Co. will build a $300. 000 new steel fabricating plant at Tigard. Union Oil Co. has announced a $1 million expansion of its wharf and storage facilities at Coos Bay, and is building a $600,000 regional headquarters building in Portland. Rilco Division of Weyerhaeuser opened a new million dollar lam inating plant last month at Cottage Grove. Birdseve Division. General Foods, has started $750,000 expansion of its Woodburn frozen foods pro cessing plant. Metal and Thermit Co. has an nounced it will establish a million dollar dctinning plant in Portland. Harvey Aluminum Co. will dou ble the size of its aluminum smelt er at the Dalles. Unemployintnf Down Nationally, a survey ot business trends and developments by the Advertising Council shows that un employment is down and sales are up. The National Bureau of Eco nomic Research says the economy seems to have passed from a phase of contraction to one of recovery WALLPAPER SPRING PATTERNS Colorcraft Painf 81 Wallpapr 721 S. t. Stephens save more than ANNIVERSARY 1941 1961 with U.S. Savings Bonds IOOK ground you. Look at the new homes, new cars, the bigger I college enrollments ... the people living in comfortable retire ment. Did you ever stop to wonder how much of this has been made possible by U. S. Savings Bonds? The fact is that all over America more people are saving more money in all forms than ever before in history. Today millions of Americans own over $43 billion in E and H Bonds alone. Why? Because they're one of the world's safest, surest invest ments and one of the easiest ways to save ever devised. Ask our bank to set up an automatic bond-a-month purchase plan for you. Remember, too, that Savings Bonds mate excellent gifts for any occasion, and we have free gift envelopes for them. While you are here we suggest you also ask about our checking and savings accounts, loan services, safety deposit boies and our other many services designed to make life easier for you. DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE Roieburg . . . Oakland , , . Sutherlin Congress Land Grabs : Idaho 52,972,160, 34,049,967; 64 2 Oi Oregon 61,641,600 ; 31,579,996; - ... ,- , 42,743,040; 12,. "'"""'S'"" dw.uji; . In The Air, Is Blooming and expansion, mis statement is made on confident the basis average work in manufacturing. new or housing im-t commercial and industrial building contracts, the index of . S10CK prices dllU me luut y..,.- cs, ' F.lsewhere in the economy. the picture is also bright. Advertising . ii in lha HnlHrnme ihrnuph mosl of lhe irst quarter of the j : .hnwins siens of an un- fakine a second look at tne con- an f. . , ... , , linn highest since 1958. Reports indicate mat Dusiness spending in general will total . billion in tne secono quoiu-i m uie year compared wun aoo.o uiiuuu in tne lirsi quanei. Government Spendinfl Up Government spending at all lev els federal, state and local is rising, and unemployment is down. : ,. . National unemployment declined by 200.000 between mid-February and mid-March, lhe Labor Depart ment has reported. The decline in the number of jobless was the first in six months. 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