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lo oa 0 ft editorial page 4 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., June 21, 1962 Franks jfeiins v-JSs Interesting question: Have you noticed that since the big bust in the stock market we tend to shiver less when we read the FOREIGN news and even skip some of the. headlines? The home front news is dull to day. So Old Kroosh gets back into the picture. In a rather odd way, He spent Tuesday talking to col' lectivo (meaning communized) farmers In Romania. His speech, coming from the world's top com munist, had a strange ring. He ad' mitted that communism is having difficulties in persuading peasants (the communist name for farmers) to accept collectivization. He said to his peasant audience: "Do not be too proud that you in Romania have finished collectivi zation of farms. There is always (in communism) the psychological problem of the soul of the peas ants. "No one is born a communist. After collectivization, the peasant goes out to LOOK FOR HIS OWN HORSE, and feels that it is still HIS OWN property." He could have added but DIDN'T that when the peasant re alizes that what USED TO BE HIS OWN HORSE isn't his. own horse any longer he LOSES INTEREST IN HIS JOB and no longer cares whether he raises much of a crop or not. , After all, he says to himself: "What difference docs it make to mo NOW whether I work hard and produce a bin crop or goof off and produce a little crop: In any event I won't be allowed to keep FOR MYSELF what I have worked hard to produce." That's the fly in the ointment of communism. Weird not in the news: The suicide verdict still stands in the case of the mystery shoot ing in Texas last year of Henry H. Marshall, the department of ag riculture agent who had been checking Into (ho cotton allotment dealings of Billie Sol Estcs. After a month-long probe of the reopened case, the Texas grand jury decided early this week that "the evidence was too inconclusive to substantiate any conclusion oth er than suicide." Let's see. Marshall was found dead on June 3, at a lonely spot on his ranch in Itobertson county, near the town of Franklin. He had been shot five times with a ,22 caliber bolt ac tion rifle, which lay on tho ground not too far away from his body. The verdict at an inquest by a jus tice of tho peace was SUICIDE. If so, ho must have been DE TERMINED to die. Imagine shoot ing yourself FIVE TIMES with a bolt action riflcl The Almanac By Unlttd Pratt International June 21. with its Today is Thursday, (he 172nd day of the year 11)3 to follow. The moon is approaching last quarter. Tho morning stars are Jupiter, II a is and Saturn. The evening star is Venus. On this day in history: In 1788, tho U.S. Constitution became effective as the ninth state ratified it. In 1915, Japan surrendered to the United States in the battle for Okinawa Island in the Pa cific. In 1948, a communications worker demonstrated his "long playing" record that revolution ized the entire recording indus try. A thought for the day: The Spanish writer, Miguel Cervantes, said: "That is tho natural way of women to scorn the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them." PASSING THE BUCK By Charles V. Stanton Sn. Wayne Mor&e of Orepron is doing an expert job of buck passing in my opinion. n,. nnnr, aonafnr wcAnt.lv loosed one of his verbal n-wino on-,.;,,uf tho Konnedv administration because of "red tape and delay" in taking action to help the de Dressed lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest. Morse, of course, isn't alone. Other of our senators Northwest Alaska and California are joining in the demand that the President "do something. Rut whv ta the huek to Kennedy? Our lumber industry is in need of immediate help. TVmt'a wimt nnr BPnutnrH are Droclaimincr. They re insist ing that help be given and at once by the Tariff Commission and by the rreswoni. But Congress has the power to give an immediate tnrm nf rolipf. Tnstend of waitinsr for the President and the Tariff Commission to get around to aiding the lumber industry, these senators who have suddenly become so vocal and demanding, could solve this problem, at least temporarily, almost overnight. But instead of doing the thing they know would be of immediate help, they piously insist that the President and Tariff Commission put quotas on Canadian mmrjer. Shirking The Job They know full well that if this country places quotas on Canadian lumber, Canada will turn around and put quotas on something we produce. The lumber industry will be aided in such case at the cost of some other produc tion activity. The senators, I am quite sure, even while demanding with great vigor that something be done, are quite aware mat ntxie can, or win, De aone ai least im-mediatelv. At the same time these "angry" senators, who would have us believe they are trying to do something for the industry, are shirking their own jobs and responsibilities. They have the power to provide the immediate relief our industry needs. Instead, they're attempting to place the blame elsewhere. Only Sen. Maurme Neuberger has pro posed what seems to me to be the obvious way to obtain prompt action. But apparently she's not , getting much help. The Senate could, if it would, repeal that section of the Jones Act which makes our coastal mills use U.S. ships when transporting lumber to another. American port. And amendment to the Jones Act could be pushed through Congress in a hurry, if the members of 'Congress were willing to face reality. Our mills then would be in a com petitive position and could regain markets lost to Canadian mills. Now they must' pay a subsidy to the maritime in dustry. But amendment of the Jones Act would involve tamper ing with transportation practices. We have very few U.S. boats remaining in the coastal lumber trade. Our coastal mills are being forced ' to use rails, because the U.S. doesn't have enough lumber schooners to provide needed cargo capacity. But any change in the law would compel downward revision of rail and truck tariffs. Do you think our senators would risk losinir the votes of the teamsters unions and railroad brotherhoods? If so, suggest you think again. Whipping Forest Service Instead, our senators are dnnrvrincr all the , red her- rings they can find across their paths so they won't be forced into an action that might cost them some votes. One device is to make a "whimjinor bov" of the U.S. Forest Service. Unquestionably there could be a number of improve ments in Forest Service practices and public relations. nut it seems to me that a good many of the devices pro posed by operators at recent hearings are designed to get more and cheaper logs. 1 lie timber industry stripped this country of its forests from one coast to the other. Tho inrliint.rv. no o uhnln hasn't shown much voluntary reformation.' It wants logs'. une way to get logs is to force the Forest Service to for sake its sustained yield, allowable cut policies. n appears to me our senators should be seeking to ore- serve our resources, promote conservation, nnrl think of the future and the protection of coming generations, rather man yielding voices unci lntluence to continuation of the practice of leaving barren hillsides and ghost towns. In any event, it seems somewhat hyprocritical to me to be passing the buck to the administration when Hips same senators who are doing the complaining have the power 10 no me tiling they insist should be done. Raymond J. Crowley House Of Representatives Is Co-Squal With Senate WASHINGTON (AP) You'd better smile, pardner, if you call the U.S. House of Representatives the "lower house." Otherwise you're In trouble with House members. For there is nothing in the Con stitution which says the Senate is higher than the House. They are co-equal. As a matter of fact, some authorities feel that if ei ther branch is expendable it is the Senate, not the House. But thorjh House members get the same pay $22,500 as sena tors, it has long been surmised that many of them have hidden inferiority complexes. For one thing, the size of the House (437 as against 100 senators) tends to dilute an individual member's prestige. And to get any work done, the House has developed rules which regiment its run-of-the-mill members. No represen tative can make a marathon speech, for example, At any rate, the House has long suspected the Senate of haughti ness. So now representatives have their backs up. They are insisting that the chairmanship of Senate House Conference Committees ap pointed to iron out differences in appropriations bills shall rotate instead of always being heid by a senator. This dispute has tied up several appropriations bills and many Government employes face payless paydays, including the valiant Secret Service. Though the Constitution makes no mention of it, some people con tend Congress has a "third house" namely its system of conference committees. When Senate and House pass a bill in different form a conference committee usually is appointed to reconcile the dif ferences. Working in secret, conferees wield great power. Sometimes in the past they have altered legis lation almost oeyond recognition, And sometimes, especially in ses sion-end logjams, Congress has passed the conferees' "compro mise" without knowing exactly what was in it. Suggestions sometimes have been made that America could get along with a one-chamber Congress. Many foreign countries and one American state, jseDras- ka. manage to do it. But it is inconceivable that either Senate or House would vote for a con stitutional amendment to put it self out of business. The present clash between Sen ate and House, though tense, is conducted quietly in gentlemanly fashion. Both chambers have rules against using the floor to speak ill of .colleagues in either house. Gone are the good old days when Congressman "Sockless Jerry" Simpson (1842-1905) of Kansas could arise or. the House floor and call a colleague "a po litical cannibal autocrat." Nowadays the steam seems to have gone out of presidential lan guage too. It is hard to imagine President Kennedy saying of any senator what President Andrew Jackson wrote of John C. Calhoun in 1832: "His best former friends say he ought to be hanged." Hal Boyle Ruark Caught And Eh joyed Everything That He Chased NEW YORK (AP)-"My big ambition as a child was not to be ooor." said Robert Ruark, who likes to be known as the world's fastest two-finger typist. "Money doesn't by itself mean happiness, but it's a hell of a ne cessity. A guy who can buy a bot tle of whisky is better off than a guy who can't buy a bottle. "There's nothing you can do poor that you can't do better rich except beg." At 46. Ruark, columnist turned novelist, is in no imminent danger of having to hold out a tin cup to passers-by. In 16 years, this latter-day Rich ard Harding Davis estimates he has turned out more than 1,000 magazine articles and 10 books. His latest, a novel of African in dependence, is a Book-of-the-Month selection. If it does as well as an earlier African novel, which sold to the movies for $300,000, Ruark should reap a harvest of $750,000 or more for it. Not bad for a country boy whose only desire was to get out of town and see the world. Bob left Southnort. N.C.. at the age of 15 he was still in knicker bockers to enter the University of North Carolina. Ho was gradu ated at 19. Soon after he was working for a federal agency as an accountant. It took them three months to find out I'd never even had a course in bookkeeping," he re called. Fired from that job, KuarK became an ordinary seaman, then worked as a newspaperman until World War ' II, during which he commanded a Navy gun crew on a freighter. , . Bob returned to his newspaper typewriter then, and in six months worked up from $125 a week to $50,000 a year as a columnist. Brash and self-confident, Ruark, despite an intermittently ailing liver, lives with a tremendous gus to, thrives on controversy and ad venture. His left arm is still laced with the scars left by a wounded leopard he shot recently in India. He works hard, plays hard and spends freely. Not long ago he pick up a $2,500 for a party he threw merely to. let some old friends know he was passing through town, - "But I think it's about lime I quit Uiat sort of thing," he re He smokes 80 cigarettes a day "but only about an inch of each" and still restlessly travels from 100,000 to 150,000 miles a year. But the boy is growing older and feels now he'd like tn settle down for while. Ruark owns a Rolls - R o y c e, homes in London and Spain, and keeps busy a staff of 15 servants, secretaries and agents. Bob's credo: "Everything I saw that I wanted I chased; everything I chased I caught; everything I caught I en joyed. "But life is a matter of giving, too. Everything I got I gave some thing of myself first to get." DEAR ABBY Abigail Van Buren Beat The Odds, Sweety! REQUESTS TAX CUT WASHINGTON (UPI) AFL CIO President George Mciiny has urged President Kennedy to ask Congress for an immediate I a x cut, which would be concentrated in the low income bracket. Mcany said a reduction in in come taxes was "vitally essential lo avoid sioOing the rate of econ omic growth." His proposal came In the form of a memorandum to Kennedy that was made public on Wednesday. DEAR ABBY: Two years ago I visited some friends out 'of town. They were invited to a friend's home for dinner and I went along. llie "friend turned out lo be a very handsomo young man who had been in a wheel chair most of his life. He lives in a five-room home, built especially for him. It was nicely furnished and spotless. The meal (which he prepared him self) was out of this world. He keeps house, does his own laundry and drives a car with hand con trols. I liked him immediately. I saw him many times and it de veloped into love. He's asked me to marry him and I want to. As you can guess. I have parent trouble. They say it is not "love" but "pity" I feel for this handicapped man, and if 1 marry him I'll be sorry later. Abby. how can you "pity" a man who can take care of himself and a home? He has a steady Income. a 27-y tar-old woman should know what thy want. W art all hand! capped in stmt way nly h I shows. If you lovt him, mtrry him. Dr.AR ABBY: When my hair was long 1 had to have it set at least twice a week. (1 work in an office and must look well-groomed all the time.) One day 1 had It cut snori and 1 never had so many compliments In my life. My husband loves long hair so he had a fit. He told me to let it srow long and not to ci it again. short hair is so much easier to care for and everyone else likes it. Should 1 let it grow to please my husband? TO CUT OR NOT DEAR TO: It's mora important to pltast ytor husband than tv. tryont tltt ctmblntd. If ytu'rt wilt, you'll lit It grow. We wouldn't bp rich, but we'd get ,,,, mm- i . . . . along. He Is 29 ami I am 27. What' , AnB:. Lalei'. have n- do you think'' inai my mrsDana nas siart- 6 in L0yE ! cd to smile sweetly and make eyes two-y a r , ey.P, (trance vumen he tinner, nn the boulevard. They don't even DEAR IN: Afttr a courtship, a 29-ytar-old man and The News' - Review Publithtd bf Ntwi-Rtrltw PublliSinj Co. S4S S. I. Main St., Reiebure Oregon CHARLES V. STANTON ADDYE WRIGHT ... o ,ditor e Busoic Mieoge& GEORGE CASTILLO DON HAGEDORN - Monoaina Editor Disrlav Adv Mar. Temvrrffiie6?5So'ri3icjrY??ss, orcgo'lTTvcHspapef Puollsners . Association the Audit Bureau of Circulation . Entered as second class matter May 7, 1920, at the post office at Roscburg, Oregon, undft act of March 2, 1873 Subscription Rates on CmL4&iri!ai<t-. JstWafcaftAesftd SSfeftpe' nave to ot gooiiiooklng Just so they're women. My sister says he should have his head exjyined. He is 74 and 1 am 67, Should I ignore it or what? "67" DSAR "7": If ytur 74-ytar.old husband's "flirting" It net console- cuoui to othtri, Igntrt It. Thi rnayj ow nil Tnira cmiarwoa ana ouitt htrmltis. Reader Opinions Bangkok Embassy Man Leaves Milo By MRS. DURNIN SWINGLE Y Phil Hendrix has departed for Thailand where he is stationed at the U. S. Embassy at Bangkok. He spent some time with his mother, Mrs. Romie Hendrix, near Milo, and other relatives. He had been called home by the death of his youngest sister, Agnes, in an automobile accident. His brother Melvin, took him to Mcdford to catch the plane. Earlier in the week Merrill Hen drix, son of Mrs. Romie Hendrix, underwent major surgery at Sa cred Heart hospital in Eugene for a back injury suffered in a woods accident some two years ago. Mile Visited Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers of Milo last week were the former's niece, Mrs. Floyd Butler, and family of Ano ka, Minn. They had been to the Seattle Fair. Attending the recent wedding of Sandra Crumpton and Jerry Bon ney, both of the Tiller-Drew area, at the Medford Friends Church, Medford, were his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Whetzel, and children, Miss Terri Kostic arid Miss Susan Wheaton all of Days Creek. Sherryl Whetzel was an at tendant and Miss Kostic sang two solos. . Relatives Visited Dennis and Nancy Wheaton, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Wheaton, spent last week at Tillamook visiting Mrs. Wheaton's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Airs. Jess Ingram. The two young folks accompanied their uncle and aunt to the Rose Festival at Port land Saturday. Mrs. Ervin Mather and Mrs. Florence Brady were recent visit ors to Medford and Central Point, where they called at the home of Mrs. Mather's son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brock, and small son. I Editorial Comment KENNEDY SHOULD CHALLENGE LABOR San Oitge Union There seems to be a feeling that since President Kennedy averted an increase in the price of steel, the wage-cost spiral has been brought under control and a great service has been given to the American economy. But the striking down of a single company is a far different matter than resisting the pressure of hundreds of labor unions led by men whose strength necessarily lies in what they can wring out of the system each year. While Mr. Kennedy was appealing to labor leaders to hold the line, and while their cheers and applause were still ringing in his ears, a hundred efforts were under way, from one end of the coun try to the other, to break through the line with higher wages and more fringe benefits. No pledges were heard at labor conventions that the annual round of mark-ups would be foregone. The construction field in particular went its own way. One plas- terers' group has won a $33-a-week increase or 23 per cent, and by 1964 it will be earning $174 a week for 30 hours, plus hourly ad ditions for welfare and pension benefits. Plumbers announce that they want a five-hour day. A steel workers' local is asking a Sl-an-hour increase. And so' it goes. The construction industry is as vital to the nation's economy as the steel industry. But it is a fragmented industry and on the man agement side there is no single company or individual or small group to lash or punish. On the union side, leadershin is diveers and divisive. In the end, the power of labor leaders lies not with the White House- but with their members. They are not subject to random economic punishments, such as that held over the steel industry, but only to imposition of dictatorial wage and price controls that nobody wants. Their response to a national appeal to hold the line must be on the basis of national interest and there fore a patriotic one. But the appeal goes unheeded. One raise must be matched by another; one leader s position and prestige equated with that of a rival. And the spiral continues upward and upward. Surely the President must step up to the line' here in the not too distant future. He must reach the source of labor union strength, the members who have the best interests of the country at heart. To do this he must challenge the leadership of the powerful men who were among his chief supporters in his election as President. This will be mighty interesting to watch. RADIUM NEEDLES' LOST CATANZARO, Italy (UPI) Technicians with geiger counters searched through refuse in the i city dump today looking for two ! costly and dangerous radium nee- j dies. Authorities said the needles , were thrown away absent-mind-1 edly by a hospital nurse Wednes day. I STATE OF OREGON VEHICLE SALE "SPOT BID" AUCTION ot UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Hayword Field, Agate & 15th Sts. EUGENE, 12:30 P.M. P.S.T., SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Rambler, Lark, Ford, Cti.v., Pontine, Inr'l, Dodge. 39 Units (1950-. 1961 Models): 5 compact sedans; 19 standard ledans; station wgn; S pickupi; 5 dump trucks, two arc 4 x 4's; 2 Chev. suburban carry- . alls, 1957'i; flatbed truck and Scoopmobile loader. Several cars from Oregon State University. Inspect at: Eugene, Hayward Field, Univ. of Oregon 10 a.m. te S p.m. P.S.T., June 21-22 and from 9 a.m. Sat. June 23. Complete payment must be mode by 4 p.m. P.S.T. Tuai. June 26, 1962 Isolated Area Urged For County Boys Camp To The Editor: Concerning the controversy over the proposed home for delinquent boys at Myrtle Creek, I'm sure no one is opposed to the idea of such a home or homes. The controversy pertains to the location. We feel that putting a correction home in an area of small rural homes would create numerous problems. Though this site is the largest acreage in this area, most farms having been divided several times, very little of it is level enough to cultivate. Water will be a problem. If this property were to be sold and the money spent to im provo property in a more isolated area (cut-over land for sale for taxes, for instance) I'm sure there would be no controversy. People opposing the suggested location have been treated as if they were cold-hearted monsters. It is easy to be tolerant and broad minded when the problem isn't dumped on your doorstep. I'm sure a percentage ot the boys to be housed in the home would readjust and become good citizens. But many would not. How many local boys are going to be influenced by these? I'm sure just as many of these boys would be rehabilitated if their camp were to be put in a more iso iSed area. In fact, perhaps more would be rehabilitated In such a lei;ion because temptation would be farther away. Mrs. Clinton Jones N. Mvrtle Creek Rt., Box 221, Myrtle Creek, Ore. and thoughtfulncss by public em ployes, while actually at work and in a dangerous situation, is truly appreciated. Harry L. Johnson 233 Mosher Ave. Roseburg, Ore. Peninsula City Offers World Fair Lodging Firemen Draw Praise To The Editor: In view of the fact that there have been controversial and much publicized reports as to tho inad equate housing and the resultant "gouging" of visitors to the North west and the Seattle World's Fair, we felt that it would b a service to your subscribers to inform them that at Bremerton, just one hour's boat ride to Seattle, and in the surrounding areas we have many hotels, motel, trailer park and campsite accommodations that' range in price as follows: Hotels $5 single room to $8 double with j bath. Motels Si singlrroom to $10 ! double with bath. Also with accom- modations for up to 10 people $18.-; 00 larger unit. Trailer parks $2.- j 50 per hook-up. Campsites $1.00 (some have swimming pools). j Many ot the motels arc recently built and some of them offer trans-; t portation to and from tfte ferry ter minal. The scenic one hour ferry j ride to Seattle, site of the World's Fair, is one of the many tourist at- -tractions of Puget Sound. We should like to stress the fact that our accommodations prices are comparable or perhaps even lower than in your locality, we have taken care of thousands of ; satisfied visitors in the past few 1 y'.e. CnsvOed parking and driv ing inconveniences may be avoided by leaving cars in Bremerton. We are a verv hospitaole city and Is For rfT"ofjfW's" nJtk fiwleavor to make any tour- i ton and Century 21 a comfortable Everybody has a problem. What's yours? For a personal re ply, write to Abby, Box 3365, Bev- iO uTe .uiiui : I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Roseburg firemen who participated in saving and oth- erly Hills. Calif. 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