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TktusanJs Strike By Air, Sea I.w.trts' ltiHM EDITORIAL PAGE Reader Opinions In The News, By Frank Jenkins Paris Vignetlrs: There is onion soup . . . and . . . Ihcre is ONION SOUP There are the places oul in the big all night wholesale food districts where the tourist busses take you for local color of which there is plenty. Here the people who work in the area eat onion soup for nourishment. The tourists eat it as an adventure. is the Bouteille d'Or. a charming little place on the Left Bank of the Seine, across the slrcct from the famous stalls, in the edge of the Latin Quarter, only a short walk from the Sorbonne, the great Paris university. Here people come for good food, served in pleasant surroundings. 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., June 7, 1961 Here, as everywhere else, they bring their dogs. And here, as practically everywhere elsp, the dogs are treated as members of the family. Across the pleasant little cafe from us, as we ate our onion soup a few days ago, sat a man ami his wife AND their dog. The dog was a Pomeranian, with all the earmarks of the breed. As they read their menu, Die Tom sat between them, its front paws on the table. It gave every appearance of reading the menu, course by course. As the food camo In the table, the Pom was given the first bite. ; When came the end of the meal quite some time after the begin ning of it. for the French believe in taking plenty of time for their lunch the Pom was given its individual finger bowl. I'd like to he able to add that it washed its paws daintily. Instead, it drank the water. In the stalls along the Left Bank they call il the I-oft Bank be cause it is on the left side of the Seine river as one faces in the di rection the water is flowing one finds for sale just about every thing in the world EXCEPT t h c things that might be immediately useful in the way of day-to-day living. ' There are old prints from t h c French fashion magazines running clear back into the 1870's. The magazines are approximate dupli cates of Godey's Ladies Book, which was published in the U.S.A. at about the same period. These old engravings from Oodey s and the other magazines of ils type have been long since exhausted in our country. Here, from some where or other, they seem to find enough prints from the old French magazines to keep the Left Bank stalls going. They don't come for free. A fair sized portfolio of them sells for around $30 in American money. PUBLIC INTEREST By Charles V. Stanton The United Stale government j about to be pushed out of its place as the world's No. 1 power. American prestige has been steadily going down hill. Communism has been forcing territorial divisions, then gradually ab sorbing total areas, crowding out the limited democratic influences we have maintained at great cost. Our government is confronted with a growing confla gration in its own back yard. Our marines are ready for what may be armed intervention in the Caribbean. The Caribbean situation may be a bonfire built to demand our full attention while our communist enemies take over in I Europe. Here in the United States racial feeling is growing. ; Racial rioting has broken out. Our federal government has set itself up in opposition to what some stales claim I as their own rights. We are engaged today in exactly the same internal controversy that brought about our War Between the States, the 100th anniversary of which we now are observing. j Another great domestic problem pertains to ou r schools and our school system. Even educators are in ,1:.,,.. t : l: ju. uintiKi cement, cuiilci Ulllfc lUCimiqiieK. licit: jenuuiK me greater part of our tax money to support our schools. Our educational system remains deficient in facilities regard less of cost. These are only a few of the major problems confront ing us today. There are other issues of outstanding im portance to us issues bearing upon our future as indi viduals, as states, as a nation. With what issue are people seemingly chiefly con cerned? The answer to that is easy Daylight Saving Time! Residents Stale Objections To Moving Clocks Over in the He dc al Cite, a few minutes walk from Noire Dame cathedral, is the world famous Flower Market. A few steps away from it is the equally famous Bird Market. At this season of the year, the flower market stacks are rulher sparse. It is now late in May. But the Paris weather is still chilly. Flowers are not yet numerous in the gardens. But the Bird Market is well stocked. Included are cage after cage of tiny little birds about half way in size between a wren and a humming bird. They are bril liantly colored, and are known as Bombay Singers. They so fascinated two women tourists from Connecticut that thry bought four of the cheerful little songsters to take home with them. Then thry bought a cage to put them in. From Paris they will go by automobile to Algeciras, in Spain, whence they will sail for home (wo weeks henec. Chaperoning the Bombay Sing ers from Paris to Connecticut will he quite a choee, as they began to realize shortly after closing the transaction. But that's what the Left Bank and the Latin (Quarter areas of Paris do to people. NEWSPAPERS IN CONFLICT An argument between the Kant Oirnnuiaii, published in Pendleton, and the Mail-Tribune, published at Medford, is of particular interest because it concerns a matter of great importance locally. "Bud" Forrester Jr., publisher of the East Orrgonian, recently editorialized in favor of a proposal in which the business interests of Pendleton would pay a special mill age lax on their property while the City of Pendleton would commit a portion of revenue from parking meters, the money to be used to lease or buy off-street parking areas. It was contended that preservation of property values in the downtown area is contingent upon providing ade quate parking. Because assessed valuation in the busi ness area is vital to the city's tax revenues, the city should join in preserving those areas, it is contended. But Eric Allen, writing in the Muil-Tribitnr, contends that the preservation of values in the downtown area is a job the property owners and merchants can, and should, do themselves. Earlier he personally supported the plap as now pro posed in Pendleton, he says, but the matter was voted down by the people of Medford who "didn't want city rev enues going to do a job which they felt the merchants could, and should, do for themselves." Following the vote, Allen reports, the merchant set up a "Park V Shop" project, "a real success in Medford, the smallest town, so far ns we know, where it lias been tried." Sixty-two merchants cooperate Itv the plan which sets up seven parking'lots and one parking garage. The plan slarted out "in the red" but in 22 months has become profitable. Cost to individual merchants, Allen reports, has been an average of two-tenths of one per cent. "No tax .money (or meter money, which is the same thing) is used. The people are being served. And the downtown area is going great guns," says Allen. Of (-street parking is a growing problem in all our o.t- ies. The downtown area, where property valuations are high and of extreme importance, can only reach a static position. It can accommodate only a certain number of cars and a certain number of people. If it remains ag gressive it can keep itself at a maximum. It can increase its capacity by enlarging its facilities for handling people and cars. Is such enlargement a project to he undertaken by the merchants alone, or does the city have an obligation to preserve property values? The Medford paper takes the former position, the Pen dleton paper the latter. Why Not Let State Have Nixon For President? To The Kditor: Oregon is a wonderful and excit ing state. First to enact the initi ative and referendum and recall, to give its citizens a say so in their own government, it is also the first to set up another law-making body. This refers to the Chambers of Commerce over Oregon, who have set up the rules for breaking the! law in the matter of standard time. Of course, they have a good rea son. After all. somebody must base changed his mind since the last (wo or three elections when standard time was voted by a siz able majority. So the Chambers, reminding us that if we could have an election today the 'Peepul' would vote for something else, decided to do something for us. They conduct a straw vole among a selected elec torate, and the tally comes up with just what they thought. Now, as to majorities, the vote for standard time has always had a fair margin for the slate. Of course. Portland went the other way. So the governor gave them what they wanted. Now, why not let Oregon have Nixon for presi dent, since the majority wanted it that way. Also California should have Nixon, hut down in Alabama and Georgia let them have Ken nedy. It makes just as good sense. In fact, better, since Mr. Kennedy won by less than one-halt per cent of a plurality, and failed to get a majority. Not that we object so strenuous ly to so-called daylight time, but it's the way we have it thrust down our gullet willy-nilly. Nor can we say we ever heard of a valid or logical argument in favor of it Mv neighbor and 1 nearly fought. but decided to give it a trial. She turned her clock ahead an hour Sunday, and 1 left mine on Stand ard Time. We found that each of us had identically the same amount of sunshine. This may be the first time it has ever been defin ilely proved that there is no day light saved, regardless of what the clock says. Before standard time there was confusion galore. Every town had its own time. Then the railroads started standard time to keep their trains from running into each oth er. From then on one could look at his own clock and know what the time was in Portland, Chicago or London. Now we can t tell what time it is in Brookings, Al bany or Bend. Oregon probably is the only stale in the world where you'd have to change your watch seven times be tween Medford and Portland, a' five hour drive. And, maybe the only slate with so many law mak ing organizations. You can't tell when another group will decide what (he populace wants, and start their own legislature. Hurrah for Oregon! Mrs. Sig Wolf 1020 N. W. Broadway Roseburg, Oregon I question Ihe reliability of that' survey as I have talked to several business men who were not con sulted in any way about it. This matter has been thoroughly dis cussed by people all over town and so far 1 have heard exactly one woman who is really in favor ofj il 1 guess I must have missed all (hose others who do not wish lo follow Ihe example of our slate capital and the decision of C-ov. Hatfield. I'm sure one way for us to show disapproval locally is to hit where it will hurt, in the pocket-book! I intend to keep our cluck on stand ard time and do my shopping in places and at times that suit my convenience. If the stores are closed at 4:30 down town. 1 know of others in outlying areas that are open later. 1 thought the mer chants were anxious fur custom ers, but if they don't need to stay open till 5:30 to accommodate the public, I guess they don't need business as much now as they did a few short months ago. I have been called "hard-head ed" before but allhough 1 may be an hour late attending certain functions in Koseburg, I don't in tend to change my riiind nor my vote at the next election, when we wilt be voting on this again. 1 think a good many people who are in favor of daylight savings time in Oregon feel that by creating ai mess this year, the voters will either change their vote or be too disgusted to bother to vote at all at the next election. So the result will be legal daylight savings time in Oregon from now on. Don't let them accomplish their purpose get out and vole! Doris AlcWilliams 1507 S. E. Pine Roseburg, Oregon Oregon Has Plenty Of Dictators To The Editor: Just a word about this daylight lime. Maybe our legislators know more than the voters do about what the voters want, but I would not vote for anyone who went against the voters. But why vole? . They'll be going through the bal lots next to pick out what they want. This state may not have any presidential timber, but if they ever need a dictator in Washington we have plenty to pick from. Percy Edwards Rt. 1, Box 405 Sutherlin, Ore. Are you mixed up? I am! i ing the clock to say 8 o'clock, the clocks alone, most of us would One can't set one's watch so one? when by the right time it is 7 be happy about it. And, after all, will know whal time il will be an o'clock, it does nothing but mix the most of us are the ones who hour from now in the next town. us up, because pai l of the country should say if it is to be changed If sume want to open an hour; still is on right time. If Ihe lew! or nut. And we did! sooner, why not just open at 7who want to go to work an hour! Juanila Phillips o'clock instead of 8. That's all they! early, so they can get off an hour, 1092 S. V. Carl are doing anyway. But by chang-l early, would just do that, and leave Roseburg, Ore. James Marlon) Kennedy Left Foreign Aid Unanswered WASHINGTON (AP) Presi-I dent Kennedy did not answer, in his nationwide TV broadcast, one, of the most piercing questions ini this country's whole problem ofj foreign aid. j It was this: Will the United! Stales put pressure on backward and despotic nations to use Amer-j ican aid for Ihe masses of their; people up to Ihe point of refusing! any aid at all unless they agree.' j Stories of corruption and the; rich getting richer and the poor! poorer in countries receiving American aid increase. Kennedy i himself in his broadcast Tuesday! night acknowledged where this leads when he said: "If we are not prepared to as sist Ihem (the backward govern ments) in making a better life for their people, then I believe that the prospects lor freedom ini those areas are uncertain. We must. 1 believe, assist Ihem if we are determined lo meet the Com munist invasion." His broadcast, deliberately pitched in a low and somber key, revealed nothing essentially new about his talks in Paris with Pies- Hal Bovle Some Folks Look Forward To Making Trip To Moon NEW YORK (API Some folks are anxiously looking forward to Texas Residents Drink Sea Water FREEPORT, Tex. (APt-Free-pnrt residents have learned lhal they have been drinking convert ed scavvater. The first 500,000 gal lons from the recently completed saline conversion plant was pumped inlu the walcr system of Ihis city of nearly 12,000 popula tion May 31. The water, the first from the government's eight planned plants, was tested extensively by city and slate hrallh officials prior to Us use. "The waler passed all health requirements," said Cilv Manag er Bill Klarkwrll. as soon as they put in tourist rates. Others of us stubbornly like to recall the flavor of life as it used lo be. We enjoy gelling together and playing the old memory game. I For example, can you remem ber when You could get teen ager lo hnby sil all evening for 50 cenls I and a plate of fudge. I Half the dogs in (own were jTighe, Buck or Prince, and they ; lived oul their lives without ever I being taken to an "animal doc (lor." The vcls made a living then treating cows and horses. A nickel would buy you I ride I on the subway or street car, or a I hoi dog. or a big randy bar. or jan ire cream cone, or a iall foamy , glss of beer, The nearest thing lo a juvenile I delinquent was the tough kid who I smoked rornsilk cigarcltcs and In I aisled on playing marbles for I keeps. A man was as proud of showing ' off a pair of new J7.M shoes as he Is today of showing otf nrw j St . (too automobile. I Nobody ever got his Iocs sliced The News -Review Publiihffd by Ntwi.Rfvitw Publish. nf C. S4S S. E. Mtin St., Rottburf, Ortfon CHARLES V. STANTON ADDYE WRIGHT Editor Business Manager GEORGE CASTILLO DON HAGEDORN Managing Editor Disploy Adv. Mgr. Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, Ihe Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered s second class nutter May 7, I9J0, at the post office il Koseburg, Oregon, under act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rates on Classified Advertuing Tige off in a power lawnmower, be cause all lawnmowers were pow ered by hand. You had no need for an alarm clock. The man next door still kepi chickens in his bock yard, and his rooster woke up the whole community before dawn. No house had a palio. but every home had a big comfortable front porch swing especially if il held i any daughters of marriageable age. Al dusk a man on a bicycle rode by lo light Ihe street gas lamps. Every kid wanted lo grow up and he a lamplighter. I The workmgman's dream of af fluence was lo own a Sunday silk shirt with stripes half an inch wide. I If a child sassed a teacher he igol a ruler across his knuckles j instead of an emergency consulta tion with the school psychiatrist. I Ihe height of adventure to a small boy was lo dig a small cave in the back vard, roof il with hoards and dm, and roast pola Iocs in it until Ihe smoke drove him out, coughing, inlo the fresh , air. i No kid ever wondered what lo do on Saturday. That was the day he cleaned out the coal furnace and carried oul Ihe week's ae- cumulation of ashes from Ihe basement. ! Everybody knew who wore Ihe pants in the lamily, and nobody . ai'Kiird about il. II was lather Those were Ihe das! Remember? Reader Plans To Stay On Standard Time To The Editor: A good many of us have written and voiced our opinion regarding Ihe high handed method by which we have been forced inlo going on daylight savings time and it has done little good. Now 1 think the time has come when we can show our disapproval in a more con crele way. In Roschurg we seem lo be guided by whatever is best for Eugene is best for us, so even if our City Council, radio and tele vision stations have decided on standard lime, our Chamber of Commerce has concluded through a "survey" lhal Ihe people pre fer "fasl time" so we've got it. Majority Should Rule In Time Change Hassle To The Editor: There was a time when the peo ples' vote counted. How many limes has daylight saving time been voted down? if our vote is worth nothing, a lot of money was wasted just holding an election-? our money! Why didn't it stop there? We don't want it. But it seems a few do, so up comes someone with a way lo get il anyway. If this can be done to our vote something had better be done quick, or our coun try is going to be in Ihe hands of a few, and I don't feel we arc do ing a very good job picking those few to run our state when a thing like this can happen to our vote. Our vote must stand in small things or we will lose il in larger, more important, things. Our vole is the only thing that will keep our country free. And free wo must always be. We couldn't live in Russia. As our stale is now, one starts out at 6 o'clock, goes a few milrs. and it is 7 o'clock: twenty miles more and it is 6:30 o'clock, fitly miles more and it is 7 o'clock. DEAR ABBY Abigail Van Buren Now Try For The Cold Ring, Honey! DEAR ABBY: I am 19 For Ihe ' past three years I have been hav ing a line affair with a man 52. j He had a business close to my! home so it was easy for me to see him every day. Someone told his wife about us, and he sold out and left town. He didn't even say goodbye. I know he loves me because wc were so happy when we were to-i ' geihcr. His wife is just hanging I onto him for his money. Young men laugh at me because I nm large 1M pounds. Can you help me? i STII.I, WAITING DEAR WAITING: Don't waste ' your time waiting for a man who bt long s to somebody tit. Your, 52-year-old Romoo took advantage of your youth and lonolintst. Trim your figurt down to fighting , woight and fight your way back to a docont lift. An ounct of self-, rospoct is worth 19S pounds of oi- CUltft. ident de Gaulle and in Vienna with Premier Khrushchev. The: heart of his talk dealt with Khru-1 shchev. In Ihis he did two things: ' 1. He made it clear he not only! solved nothing with Khrushchev' but that communism, counting on! the unrest and discontent of the! poverty-stricken musses in the backward countries, intends to try! to win them over when it can.) In short: the future is no bed, of roses, it will be a struggle be-. tween the West and communism as far into the future as Kennedy can see. There are no short cuts, and there have been no settle ments. 2. Kennedy, having put the na tion into the mood of realizing the long struggle ahead without any optimism except his personal beiief communism won't win, then made a pitch for the continuance of foreign aid. Every year since 1947, when foreign aid was first proposed, there has been some opposition to it. There is now, when Congress is buckling down to the task of working on a new foreign aid bill. By handling it the way he did first the explanation of lough days ahead and then his explanation of how foreign aid is needed to block Red expansion the President was actually making a pitch for broad public support of aid. This, for Kennedy, would prob ably take its most satisfactory form in letters to Congress. But he didn't indicate whether such aid will continue to he shov eled out to backward countries whether or not the strongest bul wark against a Red take-over-benefits to the masses is insisted upon. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH. a pleasant elkallnr (non-actdi powder, holds false teeth more firmly. To eat and talk In more comfort, lust sprinkle a little AS TEETH on your plates. No gummy. ooev. pasty taste or leellns. Checks "plate odor" (denlura breath!. clet FASTEETH at any drug counter. ONE -Ml NUT I TERM NORFOLK. Va. (API Melvin Douglas Jordan served a one mm- ule sentence here alter pleading I guilty to hating a friend take a driving lest for him. Deputy Mar ' shal John Myers ticked the sen Irnce olf on a slop walch in a .small cell in the marshals oil ice. DEAR ABBY: I am having Iron hie convincing my boy friend that he cannot run for any olhce in our trade union t especially president) because he got a dishonorable (lis (barge from the service. Nn't it true that he cannot vole or run tor anv office, public or union ' THE t,IRI. FRIEND DEAR GIRL FRIEND: Your boy (ritnd can Itarn I ho qualifica tions required to run for a union oHict from tht Union Constitution.1 And tb Secrelary of State in tht tat whtr you rondo can toll him whofhtr or not ht qualifies to run for public offico, DEAR ABBY: I am a refined woman over 3u, have a good in come and own my own home and car. I have been seeing a gentle man for Ihe past two years. He's sort of retired. He ulays cards and loafs, but is a good dresser, won derful company, and is well liked. 1 have discovered that I am rettin" only half of him. And I do not care for Ihe half I am gcllinu. ur dcvolos Monday, Tuesday. Wednes day and half of Thursday to me. But the rest of the week he is busy wilh a "companion'' he has had for 20 years. Knowing his income was limited, f have been paying both his way and mine when we go anywhere. He didn't buy me a valentine, sav ing il was just a man made holiday for the benefil of Ihe mer chants. Bui he gave her one. I am very hurt over Ihis and wonder if I shouldn't drop him lor good 111 RT! DEAR HURT: With your quali-i ficationt you should bo able to' attract other friends but, if you njoy hift company, don't "drop j him" for good. Reniombor, half a ' loafer is bettor than none, j Problems You aie not alone Let Abhy help vou find Ihe solution : Write to her. Box .Tito. Beverly ; Hills, Calif. Don I forget lo en close a self addressed, stamped envelope. BIGGEST MAY SINCE THE MODEL "A".. THE MONTH OF MAY WAS THE BIGGEST FOR FORD CAR SALES IN 32 YEARS SINCE THE HEYDAY OF THE HOT MODEL "A" IN 1929. MORE' THAN 143,000 FORD CARS WERE SOLD. THIS MEANS THAT EVERY SIX SECONDS OF EVERY EIGHTrH0UR DAY, SOMEONE BOUGHT ANOTHER FORD, FALCON, THUNDERBIRD, OR FORD WAGON. WHY? . ',, PERHAPS THOSE 143,000 AMERICANS FOUND OUT SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW. THEY DID ALL THE SHOPPING, DEALER BY DEALER; THEY MADE ALL THE COMPARISONS, CAR BY CAR. BUT THEY BOUGHT FORDS 1 WHY? SOONER OR LATER YOU'LL GET A NEW CAR. WHEN YOU DO. TRY YOUR FORD DEALER FIRST HE WILL GIVE YOU AN ABSOLUTS YARDSTICK OF VALUE IN EVERY PRICE RANGE FROM A TUDOR ' FALCON TO A THUNDERBIRD CONVERTIBLE. HERE'S WHAT TO LOOK FOR. IN THE GALAXIE PRICE RANGE. DON'T SETTLE FOR LESS THAN A CAR THAT'S BEAUTIFULLY BUILT TO TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. . .THAT GOES 30,000 MILES BETWEEN CHASSIS LUBRICATIONS. . .4.000 MILES BETWEEN OIL CHANGES... WHOSE BRAKES ADJUST THEMSELVES AUTOMATICALLY. . .WHOSE MUFFLER IS BUILT TO LAST THREE TIMES AS LONG AS ORDINARY ONES... WHOSE BODY IS SPECIALLY TREATED TO RESIST RUST AND CORROSION. . .WHOSE FINISH NEVER NEEDS WAXING. IF YOU WANT RECORD ECONOMY LOOK TO THE FALCON. . .THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE RUN-AWAY BEST SELLER OF ALL COMPACT CARS . . . WITH THE GAS MILEAGE RECORD OF 32.6 MILES PER GALLON, PROVEN BY AN EXPERT DRIVER IN A FALCON WITH STANDARD SHIFT, UNDER THE CROSS-COUNTRY TEST CONDITIONS OF THIS YEAR'S M0BILGAS ECONOMY RUN. OR COMBINE ECONOMY WITH A TOUCH OF THE THUNDERBIRD, IN THE ELEGANT NEW FALCON FUTURA ... BUCKET SEATS AND ALL. TAKE A LOOK AT THE TWELVE FORD WAGONS, EVERY ONE IS DE SIGNED AND BUILT TO GIVE YOU MORE SOLID R00M-PER-D0LLAR, P0WER-PER-D0LLAR OR STYLE-PER-DOLLAR VALUE THAN OTHER WAGONS. SEE THEM ALL FROM THE CRISP SMARTNESS OF THE FALCON WAGON. ALL THE WAY UP TO THE INIMITABLE ' FORD COUNTRY SQUIRE. FOR PURE PLEASURE. SEE THE SENSATIONAL NEW THUNDERBIRD FOR 1961, UNIQUE IN ALL THE WORLD A CAR THAT BECOMES MORE DESIRABLE EACH MONTH AS ,THE IMITATIONS COME OUT, AS OTHER CARS COPY ITS FAMOUS R00FLINE, ITS FOUR-SEAT INTERIOR, ITS CONSOLE YET MISS THE SECRET OF THE THUNDERBIRD SPIRIT. THE THING THAT SELLS FORDS IS SIMPLY THE PRODUCT IT STARTS WHEN YOU TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT FEATURES OTHER CARS ARE ONLY DREAMING ABOUT. IT GETS CONVINCING WHEN YOU SEE AND FEEL THE HONEST QUALITY OF ITS CRAFTSMANSHIP AND IT'S ALL OVER WHEN YOU LEARN THE PRICE. THOSE THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS WHO BOUGHT A GLITTERING NEW FORD EVERY SIX SECONDS IN MAY REALLY DID KNOW SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP IN; SWAP, AND SAVE PLENTY AT YOUR FORD DEALER'S SWAPPING BEE. r; c . : or.- 51 rti' 'AVrvff.:., Todav is I lie day to STO SWAP. '..SAY K 02 -3 UATlT LOCKWOOD MOTORS, Inc. 74S S. E. Roi ORchord 3-448$
