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Thousands Strike By Air, Sea Iditmn I W WtHtrtir. --.. Intent us Mil The Doy's i News . . . By Frank Jenkins Tans is Hie legendary food cap ital of the world. But Americans arriving for the first time arc due for days and days of dis illusion and disappointment. Eat ing in Paris is a fine art. One can no more expect to master it in a week or such a matter than one can hope to start from scratch and in a matter of a few days give a perfect rendition on the piano of the masterpieces of the great composers. Or to pick up a palette and a brush on Monday and by Sunday to be equaling the work of Titian and Michelangelo Mastery of the fine arts takes time, and it takes time to learn how to eat in Paris. To an Ameri can, the eating habits of the Par isian French are as complicated as the nuances of their language. flow does one go about it? Well, if one is a serious student, one budgets several yours of time and quite sizable sums of money to the project. But one is an average tourist, with only a week or so to spend here, one simply does the best he can and lets it go at that. It isn't that you won't be well fed. ou will be. Kvcn average Parisian food is apt to equal the best food available in less sophis ticated places. The real trick lies in finding places where these mas terpieces of the culinary art arc to be had at prices that will leave you enough to get home on. I don't know how many res taurants there are in Paris. 1 doubt if anyone, even the census takers, knows. But there are THOUSANDS of them. The point is that experi enced eaters claim you can get a near perfect dinner for as little as three dollars if you know your way around, whereas if you simply tell the taxi driver to drop you at one of the world-renowned food palaces you will part with about $20 per person when the check fin ally comes around. After (he Opera or the Lido or the Folies Bergere, if your taste in theatrical entertainment is some what less elevated than the Opera it is quite the thing to take off, preferably for some place over on the Left Bank lie rive gauche to the Parisians) for a bowl of onion soup. 1 Some of the more popular onion soup places aro over on the other side of the Seine river, in the heart of the wholesale food district of Paris. In such an event, you will be arriving at your destination in the small hours of the morning when the bulk of (he population, even in Paris, will be slumbering. Bui the big fond market will be a beehive of activity. The narrow streets will be jam med with trucks. The narrow side walks will be piled high with crates of strawberries, cherries, vegetables of all varieties in sea son, and so on. There will be a bab ble of conversation. And, when you get your onion soup and the bottle of white wine that goes with it, your neighbors at the table will as like as not be husky (ruck drivers, muscular crate jugglers, and so on. It will be a lively scene that will remain long in your memory. If you prefer your onion soup in somewhat more sophisicaled surroundings, you might try (he Left Bank, say over across the Seine from the Notre Dame cathe dral on the island that is called the He de la Cite, the historic spot where some ten centuries ago a Callic pioneer named Hugh Capet hegan the long job of founding what in the books is termed modern France. But more of (hat laler. This piece is long enough already. Baker's Big Mill Scheduled To Quit BAKER (AIM The Oregon Lumber Co. mill, Baker's biggest producer, is going to close. Word Monday from1 Charles M. Mines, Chicago, president of nines Lumber Co., which owns the local mill, said only Unit (he closure date was to be in the near future. There has been speculation that operations may run through the year with the shutdown coming the end of the year. The closure will cost 175 to 200 joli, and take away a 51 million annual payroll. Mines said reasons for closure included lack ot privately owned timber adjacent to Baker: high cost timber in competitive bidding for Forest Service stumpage; and need for a major modernisation program at (he planing mill, cost ing up to a million dollars, if it were kept it operation. The News -Review Published by NtwiRvifw Publithing Co. 545 S. I. Main St.. Roieburf, Ortgon CHARLES V. STANTON ADDYE WRIGHT Editor Business Manager GEORGE CASTILLO DON HAGEOORN Managing Editor Display Adv. Mgr. llember of Uio Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered as second class matter May 7, 19-0, at (he pot oldrc at Hosebnrg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1S73 Subscription Rales on Classified Advertising Page EDITORIAL PAGE 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, NEW PROCEDURES By Charles V. Stanton Employment in the news end of a newspaper has a tremendous advantage over porter, if he's any Rood, never stops learning. His work brings him into contact with so many phases of activity that an inquiring mind is constantly soaking up new in formation. A good reporter learns something every day. He con tinually is in "college the college of hard knocks. He constantly picks up new ideas. For example, how does a reporter protect himself in the midst of a riot? Associated Press reporters have learned a new an swer, according to the AP's weekly analysis of news and photo coverage. Jf caught in a riot, the AP tells its reporters, "Head for a telephone booth." Reporters covering the battles surrounding the Free dom Riders developed the technique, says the latest edi tion of the AP Lou. People engaged in working over the Freedom Riders obviously didn t want their activities reported in newspa pers. But the. reporters found a way to handle that situa tion. They simply crowded into telephone booths, called their newspapers, propped their feet against folding doors so they couldn't be opened, and thus stood off assailants, while watching activities from Photographers weren't so shoot pictures from inside the quite thoroughly roughed up. But included in the new era is that of taking refuge in a hostile mob. That way they in the very act of telephoning PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN ACTION A good example of free by some of our organized Northwest. Several months ago they menls to the Orient by (teaching Orientals to substitute wheat for rice, More recently the Western Wheat Associates, cooper ating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, have been teaching the Burmese how to in the Pacific Northwest. Burma is the world's largest rice producer and export er, it is stated. But for the past four years it has been importing wheal. Now it has put six flour some 1,500,000 bushels of wheat annually to produce around 50,000 tons of Hour. Most of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. While the U.S. government is interesting to know that private enterprise still is work ing to build better private markets. , TV PROGRAMS ARE OLD STUFF It is common knowledge that some of our television programs reach a long way back. A few days ago, looking over a program log, I noticed that some of the motion pictures, shown on what one crit ic calls the "magic lantern," of the "flickers." But it would seem the TV for authors. The recent Emmy awards Will Shakespeare and his "Macbeth." 7 hats certainly going a Hal Boyle Sophia Loren For Avoiding NEW YORK (API - Sophia Loren has a two-word recipe for avoiding nervous tension: "Please yourself." The onetime waif of Naples in less than a decade worked her way up from modeling (o become one of the world's busiest as welt as most beautiful actresses. Sophia took me to lunch the other day during a break in the task of dubbing in bnglisn dia logue for her 30th film. "I have the philosophy of a peasant." she said. "Take it easy everything is going to be all right." Lunching with Miss I.oren is more of a treat than going to see her in a movie. Sophia showed up in an pink shealh dress. Her enormous green eyes, flecked with gold, gave her a strange look as if she were half-panther, half-gaiellc (ianng out a 4ui lloor window at all tho new buildings rising in mid -Manhattan she exclaimed: It must get tired holding up, so many, many (all buildings. Aren't you afraid some day it will all sink?" Waiters fluttered up, cooing solicitously in several languages. "I love lo eat," said Sophia. "It's my only pleasure while working. I like any food that is spiry and full of sauce." Chatting charmingly. she went from an aperitif through plate of sliced tongue and , Kockcfeller or a Rockefeller-Cold-: with income, most people won't a dish o: kidney tew.iw"ler ,!ck'' ' Possible in 1964.get (oo excited. smal hum, a dish o: kidney potatoes and vegetables, two glasses of red wine, two bread rolls, then wound up with a lug slice of cake lopped with whipped cream. She is a tall girl with a lot ot lovelv bodv to fuel, and so far'?,' rn- JM "vi s. u-, she doesn't have to worry about i:- f""1 uei nh'mns ; oa.n.no ,nl,.l,i li' rii I nini. doldwaler with Gov. Nelson A. ' me to mi with a woman like that Ore. Tues., June 6, 1961 most other jolis. A news re the inside. fortunate. They couldn't phone booths, so some were knowledge gained by report a telephone booth to avoid can defend themselves while the story to the city desk enterprise has been furnished wheat growers of the Pacific vastly increased wheat ship mill flour from wheat grown mills in operation and will use the wheat will be bought in is buying surplus wheat it date back to the early days industry is getting hard up concentrated honors on old long way back. Has Recipe Nervousness particularly if you go as a guest. "There are some people who add up their calories as they eat," she murmured. "I prefer to add up the number of dishes." Sophia doesn't feel that success has changed her much since the childhood days when she felt her self to be a thin and gawky ugly duckling. She is poised, friendly, and completely self-possessed. "I'm very strong. I have al ways tried to keep myself as naive and innocent as possible," she said. "But 1 like to work hard, and don't believe In drifting. 1 never liked to he (aken by (he routine of life or to become tense and nervous. "It is a hard thing to do, but I try to look at things in a re laxed way. "I think you get tense only by doing things you don't really want to do. So I please myself 1 do nn,.v ,he things that picase and ! interest me. Why not? When 1 set tired. 1 slop." Rocky-Goldwater Tickets Possible WASHINGTON (AP) Rcpub- lican National Chairman William K, Miller says a floldwater-i nui, .-wo. Dili iv uoiuwairr, n-i i ne uiiai 01 puoiic anil private nusiness largely out ot cash on Aril., doesn't think it would be net debt stood at a record SS83 hand. a good idea for him or any other billion at the start of the year,. But In all three sectors govern conservative to have a second a gain of $37 billion in U months. ' ment, corporate and individual spot on a ticket headed by a The various forms of government ! the signs today are for an in- l",,'ral- UH '"'icucr oi , rw ions wo rn, be an undesirable political hv- orm. Javiii, like tlockeleller. is considered at home in Ihe parly's The gross national product fnr; The summer story hour for Rose liberal wing. , the year that is. the dollar total burg area youngsters will begin Miller foresaw a possible Rocke-if goods and services produced this Friday at the Douglas County feller (loldwaler combination was $03 2 billion, a gain of S2 1 Library. when questioned by Sen. Kenneth billion in the ear. This, too, j A story teller will be in attend B. Keating. U NA'., on a tele-1 wasn't bail (or a period called' ance each Friday throughout the vision program taped for New disappointing in terms of earlier : summer at 10:30 am, standard York stations. predictions. lime, to entertain those boys and Not entirely lost in (he discus-; But Ihe recession did slow the girls interested in hearing a story, sion w as the 1 HOP nresiden-: growth of corporate and indivi-, jtial candidate, former Vice Presi- jdent Richard M. Nixon. I .Miller said if Nixon runs fori governor of California, in 1,' and win's he presumably would be j icontender for a ccond presidcn- 'lial nomination. 1 DEAR ABBY Abigail Van Buren Three Strikes And You're Out! DEAR ABBY: I met a wonderful;' guy two weeks ago. He is a pro fessional ball player. He is the kindest and most gentlemanly man I have ever known. We have had several dates and I know we are meant for each other. We always enjoy, ourselves no matter where we go or what we do. I have nev er had this feeling about anyone else and neither has he. Well, here's our problem. We are both married. His home life is a mess and so is mine. Abby, I am not the kind of girl who goes around breaking up marriages, but I love this guy so much I would do anything to have him. Is it possible to be married in one state before your divorce is final in another? SO IN LOVE DEAR SO: It is not possible . . . and for a good reason. It assures a cooling off period and is a saft-guard against stealing home. Catch? DEAR ABBY: This is my eighth day in bed. I caught my heel on the stairs and plunged to the ce ment landing. I suffered a slight brain concussion, sprained ankle and badly bruised elbow. Yes, the new shoes did it. But I still will not give up the pointed toes and skinny heels. In stead, I will be more careful on the stairs. am sure the many women who love the beautiful pointed shoes are not writing to you. Just the complainers. IM STYLE IN OHIO James Marlow JFK Is In Good Position For His TV Talk Tonight WASHINGTON (AP)-As Pres ident Kennedy's While House term lengthened, this question re peatedly was being asked around Washington: When is he going to make his first nationwide TV talk? He already had used three of the four main ways open to a president for getting his ideas across to the people: televised news conferences, messages to Congress and television speeches at special events. It was assumed that Kennedy, acutely aware of a president's need for broad public support,, would make a TV broadcast sooner or later. It also was as-sumed that, be cause Kennedy is an extremely shrewd political tactician, he would make the broadcast when he was in the best position for it. lie's in a very good position for it tonight, perhaps better than at any time since he became president. lie II be fresh back Irom nis meetings with President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Khrushchev and Prime Minister Harold Mac millan. The country is still inter ested enough to want to know what good, if any, came from the conferences. So, while attempting to answer this, Kennedy also can get his own foreign policy meas across on (he big issues. Ho can do (his now without ne inu on the defensive as he would have been, for instance, if he took to TV to explain his advance approval of the disastrous Cuban j fow months American-Russian invasion or without irritating : rclalions went down hill fast, any particular, part of the Amer- Kisenhower must have regrct ican society. j ted his optimism five years later Former President Dwiglit D. i wnpn Khrushchev, w ho had been Eisenhower, in his first term, j vattling his rockets for some lime, look (o TV earlier ihan Kennedy, j broke up (he second summit with He made a nationwide TV-radio j propaganda and invective he- broadcast on May 19, 1953 to plain why people couldn't expect Public, Private Debt Seen Ready For Another Spurt NEW YORK (AP) Debt con- tinues to mount, if ierkilv. The recession slowed (he increase of the total of private debt. But there's good chance today that both public and private debt are j The recession also slowed bor rcady for another spurt. i rowing by corporations. Plans for Since World War 11, (olal debt i expansion were pared. This cut and national income have kept down the need for funds for build pretty closely in step with each; ing plants or buying equipment, other speeding up in boom times Also, business drew back from and slowing down in recessions : building up stocks and tended to but oor-al! advancing steadily. live off those on hand. The need This is Particularly tl'lie of COI- for funds In carry invonlonix porale and personal debt, and as onir as it moves alone in steni owed $301 billion, corporations wero in hock ny nuiion andi individual and unincorporated enterprises by $287 billion. All enterprises by $287 billion. All inree types ot clem nan risen in lfl. although much of the year: wa a recession period. I dual debt, and the increase in gross national product, also. ! Individuals continued to pull in their horns during (he early. months of 1961. a fairly rare oc- curence since Ihe end of the war. Instalment debt totals fell in m DEAR IN: You had better tu your doctor again. I'm afraid that brain concussion is more serious than you think it is. DEAR ABBY: While I was work ing at the polls, our National Anlhem was played on the radio Everyone was very busy writing and so was I. But I stood up and placed my hand, above my heart until the song was over. No one else in the room bothered to ac knowledge it. In fact, I heard a few of them laughing behind my back. ' When I watch a parade on tele vision and our flag appears, I al ways stand up and salute it wheth er I'm alone or with others. I want to know if I am as queer as some people think I am, or are they the ones who are out of order? PATRIOTIC DEAR PATRIOTIC: Most peo ple do not stand for the National Anthem or flag except at public gatherings. This doesn't mean they aro lest patriotic, only more con formist. Do as you please, but don't bo surprised if you surprise and amuse others. CONFIDENTIAL TO THE TUES DAY AFTERNOON CLUB; Jump ing at conclusions is not nearly as good exercise as digging for facts, girls. Everybody has a problem. What's yours? Write to Abbv, Box 3365, Beverly Hills, Calif. For a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. an income tax cut right away. This must have carried some clement of disappointment for a lot of people at the time. So Ei senhower's talk, in a sense, was an effort lo persuade (he public (o grin and bear i(. There can hardly be much dis appointment in Kennedy's talk tonight about his conferences abroad, particularly with De Gaulle and Khrushchev since no one expected any big solutions or lillle ones, either. Kennedy isn't expected to say anything new tonight on foreign policy. Since taking office his pol icystanding stiff against the Russians has been essentially the same as that of Presidents I Eisenhower and Truman. I So, in talking to a nalion which knows (he broad outline of Amer ican policy and supports i(, Ken nedy will be asking for continu ance of the same support for the same policy given his predeces sors. ; Kennedy actually is repealing what Eisenhower did after his first meeting wilh Khrushchev in July 1955. He came righl back and made a TV report to the na tion. But he made a mistake which Kennedy, ' benefiting by his pred ecessors experience, isn t nxeiy to repeat. Eisenhower raised hopes that things might be better as a result of the meeting. He said there was a realization that nceoliations could now be conducted without "propaganda anti tlireat and invective." Within ex-;case 0f the U.S. spy plane shol down over Russia. January. February and Anril. and I had onlv a slight risp in Man-h The (otal is now about level with last September, although still above a year ao. dropped way down. Thosp luo fHr li.fl mam- , corporations in position to finance j the ordinary operation of their creased borrowing pace. e ex ti JUIIllllCI JIUIY PUUI n nl I ii !l rlunneQ AT LlOrOry IT'S HOT NOW DKS MOINES. Iowa (AP) Bur slars hroke into the Commission Cafe the other night and escaped with SJS5 in cold cash. Police said the money reported stolen had been hidden in an ice cream frcerer. U. S. Business, Consumers Economy Is Moving To New This is the last in a series of articles prepared by the Nation al Advertising Council for the council's "Confidence in a Grow ing America" campaign. The ar ticles are based on a survey which showed that the national economy is now on the rise fol owing the recession. Steel producers, auto makers, re tailers and businessmen and con sumers generally are convinced that the economy is moving for ward to new, high ground. The final weekly survey of nation al business conditions by The Ad vertising Council shows that belief in the nation's future growth po tential has replaced the recession psychology of three months ago. Consumer confidence, a vital fac tor in stemming the tide of any recession, is higher now than at any time in the past three years, TIMBER SALVAGE Salem Oregon Statesman Lynn Cronemiller was a news paperman (Lake County Examin er) before he became a forester. Now that he has retired as depu ty state forester he is back at the writing game. In the May issue of American Forests he had a very readable article on "Logging -the Tillamook Burn." The "burn" itself has been well publicized. The "big" fire which laid waste 200.000 acres of prime foresis occurred in 1933. The region was fire-swept again in 1939 and 1945, and these fires added 155,000 acres to the "burn," bringing the killed timber to 13 billion board feet. These fires were among the most destructive in property values of all the fires in our history. What has been poorly reported has been the salvage operation on the old burn. The forests were counted virtually a complete loss after the 1933 fire. Lands were al lowed to go to the county or turned over to the county under contracts, so as to escape the tax burden. Experienced woodsmen figured that some salvage could be had for about seven years, and then the blackened trunks would be so worm-eaten as to be worthless. Logging has begun, at first in a small way by local mills. Then major owners pooled their inter ests in Consolidated Logging Com pany and began in earnest to bring logs to market, mostly by rail and later by trucks: Only now almost 28 years after the 1933 fire is logging the burn drawing to an end. Cronemiller estimates that more than halt of the timber was salvaged. It was (he coming of war and poslwar demand which permitted so complete a harvest of the stark tree-stalks that spread over thou sands of acres in Tillamook and Washington counties. That, and the fact that the fire seemed to have killed the worms so that deterior ation of standing timber was slow, very slow. With successive boosts in the prices of logs fresh attacks were made on (he (imher of die burn. Areas were logged and re logged. First (he choice (imber was removed, (here seemed lo.be no market for even the No. 2 log. Mills got so hungry for material that finally logs that could vield Nn A liimlin.- ttrnro I, n rvael ,H I j When the big operators quit, the I j smaller outfits moved in to "glean1 ! the fields." The last contract for : i logging some 15 million board feet i in the original burn, the last size-j ..Li.. ..: li. .-I- . I.., ;.. r... duic aniie uiuiit, Mas u-i ill ! cember, 1959. As Cronemiller con cludes: I "The curtain will soon ring down i on one of the logging classics in the slate of Oregon. Never in the history of the country has such a timber salvage project been car ried out." My guess is that the owners, if they held on to their timber, real ized more because of price in creases and marketability of lower : grade logs than if they had sold I out at current prices in 1933, a jear of depression. Cronemiller goes on to say that i "to reclaim this burned empire is the task for the future." Well, not : for the future entirely. It is al ready in progress. Most of (he I area is in a state forest. Reforesta tion has been going forward for i years. The once barren slopes are i "greening" with new growth. That's another story, and I hope Cronemiller. now that his writing hand has proved its skill, will do thai one loo. Charles A. Sprague TRAFFIC IN LIVES Eugene RegisterGuard At first blush. Fidel Castro's cyn-i ical offer to (rade war prisoners for tractors calls to mind two his torical events. The first is the recently revealed attempt by the Hermans to swap Jews for (nicks in the last days ot World War II. The second is the stirring declara tion, "millions for defense, hut not one cent for Inbute." that describ ed American foreign policy at Ihe time of (he trouble with another set of pirales. However, things are looking up. The Amenran government appar ently will not be. and should not be, a party to this cold-blooded trade. The transaction will be han dled, on this end. by a group of American citizens. Spearheading the effort here are Mrs. Frankim Roosevelt. Walter Reulher. and Milton Eisenhower, If the deal goes tin mitli. it will be a fine example of American concern for the wel fare of the 1.2U0 human hemgs who. for understandable enough reasons, are now imprisoned in Cuba. It is likely lhal Ihe government's role Editorial Comment according to Newsweek Magazine which polled 15,000 consumers on their future buying plans. Auto makers, whose sales have risen steadily during (he past two months, are now predicting sharp sales rises during the remainder of the year. The annual rate of production by the end of 1961 is expected to be between 6.400,000 and 6.800.000 units compared with 5.600,000 for the first period of the year. L. F. McCollum, president of the Continental Oil Company, said that the petroleum industry's production is expected to reach record levels this year. Retail sales are expected to in crease three per cent during 1961, while prices remain steady, ac cording to John A. Barr, chairman of Montgomery Ward & Company. Personal incomes rose to slight will be Ihe simple granting of ex port licenses for the tractors. This trade figures in the cold war. (And make no mistake, Cas tro is now a key figure in that melancholy struggle.) We may ex pect that Castro will use the trade to his full advantage, probably making jokes about the heavy equipment the hated Yankees were forced to hand over in exchange for their "puppets." His taunts will bring smiles in anti-American circles around the world. But we can get in a few propa ganda licks, too. If the base of U.S. support for the trade is broad enough, and if it is expressed in terms of money contributions from a great number of citizens, we should look better in the eyes ol the world than Castro does. Amer ican willingness, expressed through a maximum number of American people, to engrge in this humani tarian purchase of lives should show Castro up for the cynical sort that he is. But we must do nothing to tar nish our reputation as pretty good traders. We should demand- a list of the 1.200 prisoners. Castro says he won't exchange "war crimi nals," which probably means he'll keep exactly the ones he wants lo keep. The "war criminal" label should be subject to negoliation. As a side offer, Castro has of fered to swap Manuel Artima, civ ilian leader of the invasion, for Francisco "The Hook" Molina. This is an unthinkable swap. For The Hook is not a political prison er here. The crime for which he is imprisoned has nothing to do with the Castro government, nor with any kind of Cuban politics. The Hook murdered a little Vene zuelan girl in New York a year ago. For this crime he would be imprisoned here if he were an American citizen or the citizen of any other country. This attempt by Castro lo mix political and civil criminals should be flatly rejected. Beyond that reservation, how ever, we see no reason why ne gotiations should not continue. It will be up lo us, then, to see that Castro makes no better use of the trade than we do. WATCH CALIFORNIANS Albany Democrat-Herald Residents of Oregon and Wash ington should examine thoroughly Secretary of Interior Stewart L. Udall's apparently prospective or der for an inleriying power line, to be built by the government, con necting (he Bonneville and Califor nia power grid systems. True, Secretary Udall has gone so far as yet only to call for com pletion of a study on this proposed high voltage common carrier line, but his comments on the proposal clearly indicate his mind is just about made up. Secretary L'dall sees in the in tertie "great promise for mutual benefit to both areas, by taking ad vantage of the diversity of loads, coordination of thermal and hydro plants and disposal of power sur pluses during certain periods." He cites general agreement that "the Pacific Northwest should export to the Pacific Southwest only that amount of electric energy that is surplus to the needs of the North west." He quotes "responsibile of ficials" of California as promising to respect priority of Ihe Pacific Northwest to all power it produces. He states that California could ab sorb Northwest surpluses during peak production periods in the north and could supplement North west power during periods of low SAWDUST JMr- h 1- 1 ft -aty. ! ti WOOD I SAWDUST ' ; . - T, totitwtijwwii 11 fri rmTfflnrrrTii wish i Atjfi grjj -1 BLOWER j- SERVICE I y ; iCr9 1 1 ' ROSEBURG: LBR. CO. i'. ' If SrLM'1 wiiiiiimwMwwwi.Miii (Blower or Dump) (Dry or Green) iZ"-ORDER NOW! SUMMER RATES on Sawdust for Mulch POND LILIES Clcon Old-Growth Douglas Fir DRY OAK & LAUREL WOOD LARGE PEELER CORE SLAB WOOD 2" PLANER ENDS (Dry 16" & 2) ROSEBURG LUMBER CO. PH. OS 9-8741 or OR 3-5508 Convinced High Ground ly over $410 billion in April, the ; last month for which figures are j available, according to Secretary of Commerce Luther II. Hodges. , Individual incomes passed the March peak by 52.3 billion and surpassed (he February ra(e by '$4 billion. ! Dun it Bradslreet has reported that businessmen generally are j looking forward with confidence to recording gains in both sales and profits during the third quarter of ; 1961 (July, August and September) I compared with the same period a lyear ago. ! Steel production has topped 2,- 000,000 tons for the first lime in a year while housing starts continue to forge ahead. A survey of some 400 members of the National As sociation of Homebuilders shows that housing starts should total 1, 300,000 in 1961, up from 1,237,800 last year. flow in the Northwest. Now this all sounds good and could be good if the power inter change agreement between the two areas is sufficiently rigid, but judg ing from what we have seen and heard of California power surplus es the Pacific Northwest had bet ter be wary of loopholes. The Bonneville Power adminis tration has complained that from time to time it has a waste power potential that is, its hydroelectric plants are capable of producing more of both firm and interrupt ible power than it can sell. BPA would undoubtedly benefit if it could find a market for tliis period ical potential surplus, particularly if and when the contemplated 550,-000-kw Hanford reactor starts pour ing firm power into the Bonneville system. Even without this the power sur plus in the Northwest is greater than that in the south, so the Inter stale transmission line which Sec retary Udall visions will probably be a one-way street most of the time. California has for years been casting envious eyes on the North west's hydroelectric power and can be depended upon to absorb all it can get. What the Northwest must make certain is that it is not com mitted, in contracting to let Cali fornia have existing surpluses, to supply California when Northwest surpluses should cease to exist. It will probably never be possible for California to return in like meas ure the power it gets from us. Nev er unless the Californians should some time succeed in diverting the Columbia river south of the bor der. wee. OLDSTER WARDS Cottage Grove Sentinel It looks to us like the present trend points to the fact that the increasing oldster population may become wards of the government and be placed on about the same economic plane as the American Indian. Industry, which is suppos ed to be a good exponent of private enterprise, is playing into t h e hands of this theory by insisting that the average employe should be laid on the shelf at 45. In the past our policy toward the native Indian has been to pension him off and forget about him. From all indications it looks like the idea of making the oldster a problem of the bureaucrats is gain ing in favor. Family loyalty or the I idea of helping "grandpa and grandma," has been passed to the government. All of which means that the average wage earner will ! have so many obligations in the ; form of taxes that he too must join the ranks of the pensioners when his productive years have passed. INHERITED TROUBLES Salem Oregon Statesman Some call for sympathy with President Kennedy on the ground i that he has "inherited'' his "sea of troubles" from President Eisen hower. True enough, as far as Cas ! tro and Laos are concerned. But ! Eisenhower inherited Korea and I Formosa from President Truman, I and Ihe latter inherited World War II from his predecessor, Franklin ! D. Roosevelt. FDR inherited the depression from President Hoover, j Hoover was the man who didn't I inherit anything from his prcde i cessor. Calvin Coolidge. Apropos of the latter one might quote from iCarlyle: "Happy is the people whose annals are vacant." WOOD T
