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PaaTaaSaaaJJSW'' Lock It Up Before It Has Pups!'' The oria ( p. Editor's Corner a 9 4 The News-Review, Roteburg, Ore. Community Spirit Proved Two swimming pools in Douglas Coun ty will soon be making news, and both of them are practical, working monu ments to the communities in which they are located. Both of them were built as memorials to the dead, but both are more impres sive reflections of vibrant, living com munities. Several years ago, a young boy drowned in the South Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek. Some people in the community vowed they would take steps to make as certain as possible that this didn't happen again. They decided swim ming facilities under proper supervision would help avert such future accidents. ( That's when Myrtle Creek began build ing a fund through public subscription to build a pool. Myrtle Creek isn't a wealthy town, hut it proved it is rich in humanity. Building a public swimming pool in these days is an extremely expensive projectV and funds for this one came in slowly. But, with the prompting of the Chamber of Commerce, the effort wasn't abandon ed. As a matter of fact, it became a more significant project as people began . to donate materials and many weekends of labor to installing the pool, Fruition of the years Of effort is ex pected this spring. It appears the swim ming facilities will be available for use this summer. - At the other end of the county, the city of Drain will soon deed another pool to the Drain School District. The purpose of the deed is to allow, the school dis trict to make use ofi the pool for- its phy sical education program. Summer use of the pool for the public will continue as it has in the past. The existence of this pool for such ex tensive use is another story of a com THE LIGHTER SIDE: Man Finds Space In Cars Shrinks i. . re if, Lm Tii By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)-For 16 years Stephen Spingarn, a former tncinlior of tlio Federal Trade Commission, tooled around in a WW ccdan. Life was good then. But a couple of months ago disaster struck. His faithful old conveyance succumbed to fatigue and Spingarn was forced to go out shopping for a new car. "It was then that I discovered," he said in relating his adventures, "that I had become a Rip Van Winkle among motorists." His rude awakening came when he tried to get in one of the 1963 models. First he banged his head on the roof. Then ho cracked his knee cap on the steering column. "To my amazement, 1 found that the cars I thought had been getting bigger were only getting bigger on the outside," he said. "On the Inside they had been shrinking. Fine For Rtptllei "Thcv are fine for cobras and other reptiles that can crawl in on their bellies, but a man nas sot to creep into his own car like a midnight thief. Then he has got to curl up in the natal position before ha can drive it." Snineum. who stands just under 6-foot-2 and weighs 250 pounds,. test-entered every make oi car Hint sells for less than $3,000, picking up new abrasions along the way. "The onlv way I avoided a con cussion was by training myself to stop and say 'Look out, Spingarn! Don't bump your head againl' be fore 1 opened the door," he said. At some point, possibly as a result o( too many lumps on the cranium, Spingarn changed from a Uiu Van Winkle into a sort f latter dav Captain Ahab. He lost all interest in mileage and other performance features and became obsessed with the pursuit of an auto whose portals permitted easy Ingress and egress. Thev were even rarer than white whales. Inner Soact Crusade Finally, Spingarn found a deal er whn" nroniiscd to remove the front scat track and reinstall It four Inches farther to the rear. Being a lawyer, Spingarn made him put it in writing. Then he carried the signed stipulation to another dealer, who Agreed to maieli me terms, oui, it turned out that the seal tracks 5 S. E r.'o St. Roseburg. Ortflon TelpftOfle ORCIurd 3-3331 Enltrad at Iftond class matter Viv 130. at tht tx. ollica at Roseburg, Ore gon, under let of March 3. 1173. Published Dally Except Sunday by NEWS-RFVIEW PUBLISHING CO J. V. Brenner Publisher Tht Ntws-Pevlew Is member ol the United Press International. NEA Service. Audit Bureau ot Clrrulatlon and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. National .Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co.. Russ Building. San Francisco Calll SUrtsCPtPTlON RATES Carrol and Roseburg P 0. Boes t month. II. 75: e months, tin.soj 1 year, S21.00. Or Mul. In Oregon: I month, tl.75i 3 months, U SOi a months, i.9.00; I year 111.00. Oulslde ol Oregon: 1 month, $1,751 X months, SS.Ui 4 months, tlv.so- 1 year 31.00. munity's determination to move ahead. It was one of the first projects which established Drain as probably the state's most outstanding "do it yourself" com munity. The North Douglas Living War Me morial Swimming Pool took idea form in 1942. Then, fund raising for the project got under way in earnest in 1945. Con struction started in 1947, and the pool was opened in 1948. , Since then, it has become the focal point of one of the finest recreation areas , in the entire county. This was the begin ning of a string of. Drain accomplish ments which would make communities many times its size blush. In old-time - barn raising fashion, the people of the community built a city hall, a Masonic temple and a sewage disposal plant all without going into debt. They did it by donating material and countless hours of labor to the job. The city government, and its employes were inspired with a desire for civic improvement to efforts far beyond the average call of duty. Now, riot only does Drain have one of ' the finest communities in the state, but it also has a magnificent esprit and no civic indebtedness. ' Both Drain and Myrtle Creek reflect perfectly a paragraph in an editorial in. the Myrtle Creek Mail last week. It says: "The money we invest in our com munity in these projects returns to us in better living facilities manifold. And we find our area an object of steady growth as people from elsewhere see our: steadily growing improvements , and , think, too, that this will be a fine place ' to live." These communities believe it. They've proved it in the past, and they are look ing forward to more projects in the fu on some cars can only be moved hack nbout two inches. Nothing could he done about the roof and , this is what has prompted Spingarn to organize the "inner space crusaae. lis aim is to bring pressure on me auio makers to produce In at least a limited edition a model with a high roof and abundant leg room. Many recruits have been rally inn around the "inner space" ban ner, includinf! Sen. Edwin L. Me chem, R-N.M.. who is 6 fcet-3 and who offered to make a "biparti san revolt." I personally, however, am noi interested in 'joining such a cru nnrln I'm holding out for one of those cars shown in the U-Drive- It commercials wncre ine unves floats down from the sky. Reader : Dunes Seashore Viewed As State Point Of Pride To The Editor: ": ;. It was in the spring of 1959 that tho survey team appointed to study the entire Pacific coastal strip re ported to the National Park Serv ice that ot all the areas along the Pacific Coast it found the Oregon dunes seashore and Point Reyes in California the most unique, beauti ful and worthy of preservation. Point Roycs has now been set aside as a National Seashore and so is protected and preserved for future generations to enjoy. Now it is heartening to learn that our beautiful dunes area may soon re ceive the same protection through passage of Sen. Ncubcrgcr's bill to create an Oregon Dunes National Seashore, a hill which Secretary Udall has endorsed. The past four years have been filled with misunderstandings and the misgivings of some of the resi dents in the area. Few have re alized the great economic benefits which establishment of the park will bring. Those who are reason ably content with the present, fear any Innovation which might possi bly change their accustomed ways. In other areas, however, such as Cape Cod and Hattoras, the reality of tho notional seashore develop ment, with all the Improvements and economic gains it has brought, has won the doubters from their former opposition to a happy ac ceptance and there are signs that this change is already beginning in Oregon. The advantage of the Neubcrger bill over that of Congressman Dun can's is that it will preserve a nat ural and beautiful environment on both sides of Highway 101, which will be Hie main road through the nark. Were I his not done there would surely be unsightly anil un wanted commercial developments on privately held land on the east side of the highway. Also, this bill gives greater control over lake ac cess and use while in no way dis turbing the private homes now built there. j WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1963 By Projects By United Press International Today is Wednesday, April 17, the 107th day of 1963. The moon is in its last quarter. The , (morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Mercury. . On this day in history. In 1519. the Diet of Worms ex communicated Martin Luther from the Holy Roirian Church after the former monk refused to admit to charges of keresy. . - ' In 1790, Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84. In 1941, Yugoslavia capitulated to Germany. In 1962, Capt. Joseph Kauffman of the U.S. Air Force was found guilty by a court martial of hav ing passed military secrets to East German Communists. A thought for the day Benjamin Franklin said: "Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that sel dom .appear, as by little advan tages that occur every ay." Opinions It will lie a beautiful National Seashore and one we will all enjoy and take pride in. Anil so will our children' and theirs. Elizabeth C. Ducey 2773 N. W. Weslovcr Rd. . . Portland, Ore.' Social Security Called Too Costly, By Reader To The Editor: ' Is Social Security too costly: It is very costly in the terms of mon ey and in the term of turning the United Stales of America 'into a socialistic nation. Taxes are stead ily increasing; yet the national debt keeps getting larger and larger. I am not aga'nst general taxes or the Social Security pro gram, but a definite stand must be taken some place or we will be a bankrupt nation. A bankrupt na tion is a weak nation, and we dare not be weak at this cmcial time we arc living in. Did you know that by 19H8 each employee will be paying S220 a year for Social Security, while the employer must match this figure. A grand total of $410 per person. If the "Medicare" program is pass ed by Congress, the bill would cost each wage earner 11.50 more, plus an additional employer contribution of $31.50. A grand to tal of $507.00 per year or $12.25 a month. The base scale the Social Security tax is computed on, is $4800.00. so roughly about 10 per cent of the total salary is going for Social Security. The "Medicare" bill will only rover hospitalization of our aged and not doctor bills, so it is quite possible that we will be paying more than the $507.00 a i year by 19tlS. j The question is: Is Social Se-1 eurity too Costly? I think it is! I Do you? Rex Wilson 3100 NK Johnson Roseburg, Ore. I The Almanac ' ' ; W V It m J a5 By ROBERT C. RUARK It is not surprising that the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, who has suddenly been discovered to own some clayey boots, uses his color a defense against attacks on his moral character and his fit ness to be a Congressman, if not a minister. The good pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church when he is home in Harlem and not liv ing it up in Puerto Rico or junket ing around Europe with a bevy oi beauties has always played rac ism to its hilt when somebody The chances are that practical ly every pair in ine imcr-collcgiate bridge tournament, sponsored by the Association of American Play ing Card Manufacturers, followed the official bidding on their, way NORTH 17 AK103 ' Z832 87 542 ...... A3 , WEST ' ' EAST ' -A 97 5 4.2 VQ1074 KJ9 K10 J983 K876 ' J 10942 , SOUTH. (D) . . aAQJ8v4 A65 AQ .. '5 North and South vulnerable South Weal North Ea.il 1 aV . Pass 2 A . Pass 4 ; . Pans' ! Pass Pass . Opening lead 4 to four spades. Actually three no trump is a belter contract and any pair that arrived there also got full bidding credit, but all had to play the hand at four spades. . West is directed to open the four of hearts and South notes that he has nine easy tricks and a lot ot ways to go after the tenth. He also has one best line of play and that is going to work. South must take the first heart and play the ace of spades to see that trumps aren't going to be all bunched in one hand. When both opponents follow he should play the ace and queen of diamonds. West will probably take his queen of hearts and lead a second heart to his partner's jack, whereupon East will lead the jack ot clubs. South will play the queen in case East has led from the king, but West will produce ihe king and the trick will he won by dum my's ace. Now South must ruff a diamond Baptist Women Slate Speaker, Installation Edyth Mct'arty. American Bap tist missionary recently returned from Thailand, will speak at the First Baptist Church in Roseburg this Thursday at 11 a.m. Miss Mc carty's home town is Springfield, Ore. At noon a luncheon will be serv ed by Ihe Wanda Kelley Mission ary Circle and at 1:15 p.m. Mrs. Les Peterson of Oakland will in-1 stall the new officers of tile Worn- j an's Mission Society using the year's theme "Crown Him Lord of j All." Mrs. (iwen Reddekopp will assist in the service as soloist. .Mrs. Melva Mobley, president of the Woman's Society, will be pre-1 siding over the day's activities. Jl t Powell Has Color, Pulpit On His Side took a swing at him. Powell has been getting his lumps lately from Delaware's Sen. John Williams, who broke Congres sional precedent by attacking vi rulently a member of the other house. The attacks were so strong that Powell, who heads the House Committee on Education and La bor (purely due to the House rule on seniority) came back from Puer to Rico's sunshine to face pneu monia in defense of himself. Racism Used He immediately charged that Line of Play Follows Odds (Written For ''NEA)'f By OSWALD JACOBY high, lead a trump to dummy's ten, ruff another diamond high, lead a trump to dummy's king and discard his losing club on dummy's fifth diamond. For mor wall-founded tips on bidding, order a copy of Jacoby's nw 64-page book "Win at Bridge." Just send your name, address, and 50 cents to: Oswald Jacoby Read er Service, c-o this newspaper, P. O. Box 489, Dapt A, Radio City Station, New York 19, N. Y. C3 The bidding has been: ' South West INorth East 1 1 4 1 Pass 2 A Pass 3 A Pass ? ': You, South, hold: AAQ65 VKJ3 Q9! AK8 What do you do? A Bid three hearts. A jump to four hearts would show better distribution, a bid of IhrM no trump, better diamonds. TODAY'S QUESTION ' Your partner continues with three no-trump. What do you do now? . Answer Tomorrow March Employment Rate Takes Jump WASHINGTON (UPI) A bet-tcr-than-usual spurt in manufac turing and trade jobs was chiefly responsible for the sharp reduc tion in the nation's unemployment rate in March, the Labor Depart ment reported recently. ( Nonfarm employes totaled 55 million in March, a record high for the month. This was 260,000 r-ore than in March. 1962. The department's Bureau of La bor Statistics issued a report to explain how U. S. unemployment dropped in March from 6.1 per cent to 5.6 per cent of the labor force. The drop had been report ed earlier this month. Nonfarm jobs have been in creasing for the past two months. The total now is 300.000 above the January figure after adjust ment for seasonal changes and the effect of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike, the report said. Before the trend started, nonfarm employment had been on a pla teau since mid-12. Manufacturing employment rose to 16.6 million in March, an in crease of 60.000 from February instead of the usual seasonal de cline. Further job gains in the metals and metal-using industries accounted for nearly half of the better than seasonal performance of factory employment. In the nonmanufacturing indus tries emnloyment rose by almost 200.000. That is about twice the expected seasonal increase. Williams' onslaught was based on the fact that he, Powell, was a Negro, and that William owned property at Rehoboth Beach, Del., which bars Negro occupancy. That figures; during the last Presiden tial campaign Powell said that any body who voted for Dick Nixon was not only a bigot, but also was work ing for the Ku Klux Klan. The fact is, as the good grey New York Times points out in an overseas edition, that Powell is in contempt uf Congress "brazen ly, incorrigibly." The Times bases its argument on several things his front-page escapades in Europe with other people's wives; his shocking record of absenteeism in Congress; his tax delinquency; the fantastic salary to which he raised his wife (from $3.000-something to $12,974 for the job of staying home in her native Puerto Rico Vto ans wer mail"): and to his involvement with conflict-of-interest housing loans. Racord Scandalous There is no doubt that Powell's record as a legislator is scanda lous, but the chances are that noth ing is going to be done about him. He has been elected to. Congress anDroximate v smce Tedov Kenne dy was born, and will be elected again if he so desires.' Congress being Congress, it will never dare tamper with seniority, even in going so far, as the Times suggests, as .to dock his pay for absence due to causes other than illness. .It w;IP not censure him for racketing around Europe on the taxpayers' money with a cou ple of white chicks while his Puer to Rican wife stayed home, pre sumably answering the mail, Nothing Expacttd 1 They will say nothing to him on his tax rap, because that is now in the courts, and when it is in the courts it is not technically on the Internal Revenue books. There are too many technicalities in nearly $11 million worth of loans approved by the llousins and Home Finance Agency for Powell and a group of associates for that one to stick. About the only thing you could real ly hang on him is that he got a divorce from Hazel Scott, a very good piano, player, and doesn't show up in the pulpit much often er than he. hangs his hat in the legislative halls. The President has a $5 billion education bill up before Powell's committee, and he took off for Puerto iRico after one day's work on it when Congress reconvened this year. That is only par for the course for Powell. The question might be that some body should censure hi as, but you are not going to catch Congress censuring tho head of a potent com mittee, and thereby shaking up the House rules. I Powell It Power - And you are not going to catch Congress censuring a Xegro who; will yell racial prejudice at thei first harsh word and who. in the yelling will alienate hun dreds of thousands, maybe a few million, of Negro votes from the Democratic party. Powell is a pow- ier in tnc party, and he knows it almost as well as Jack Kennedy ; knows it. I Previously he had announces' j that he was retiring both from his : pastorate and from politics to de vote full time to his private enter prises in Puerto Rico. Now. his dander well up, he says he is go ing to hang onto the pulpit and run for re-election to the House. I would say he's a shoo-in for i victory in both counts, and I will ; not he surprised if summer does not find him back in Europe, do ing the better v.aterholes with a ; couple of salrricd (female) mem j bers of his stalf. It is hard to beat : a man these days who has both I God and colos going for him. and lAdam Clayton Powell has both. ' ICoovrlgnt. leu by Unites Feature Synd., Inc.) By Charles V. Stanton Metropolitan Papers Join Editor In Lashing At Bill While I was expressing an opinion that the Oregon presx was failing to inform people of a dangerous situation, with reference to the Natural Resources bill before the Legisla ture, Portland's two leading newspaper, The Oregonian and The Oregon Journal . were making me ."eat crow." . At the same time I was relating my unhappiness con cerning what I thought to be a lack of publicity, the. two Portland papers blasted away editorially at methods now being used in an apparent effort to crowd the thoroughly distorted proposal for a Department of Natural Resources through the Legislature on a program of resentment, dis- SBUHiucuuu anu umuiiun. In a former discussion of the governor's plan it was stated in this column that the bill would be too extensively patched by amend ments to be acceptable. This has happened. But Gov. Hat field has been quoted in the press as saying that while the bill at present is "barely satisfactory" it is a "step in the right direction." "It is a start," he is reputed to have said, "and can be corrected in future sessions of the Legisla ture." The. Oregonian points out that the legislature' is not being asked to vote on an engrossed bill, but that the original bill, 154 pages in length, is now shot through with amendments "containing some language proposed by interested commercial groups." "It is not even in one bundle," The Oregon ian declares. The normal procedure, when en grossments (amendments) are ap proved, is to have the bill reprint ed with the language in the form in which it is to appear. In this case, legislators are reported to be asked to vote on amendments covering several typewritten pag es, completely divorced from the bill itself. Attention Called The Oregonian calls attention to the fact that "On the single issue of the potential destruction of one of the best game commissions and departments in the United States, we are forced to condemn the en tire reorganization bill." The Portland newspaper also points out that other departments pronosed to be included or destroy ed by the bill are "just as alarm ed as are organized sportsmen." They are "resentful" it is stated "of the ganging up of commercial fishermen, anti-doe hunters and the Oregon Coast Association" and their complaints against the pol icies of the Game Commission. There 'can be no question but: that the Game. Commission has taken a sound beating. It has been criticized from all sides. Because the Game Commission has been Vwoodshe'dded," ihe commercial interests have greatly imoroved their chance of pushing their pro gram through the Legislature. Was this abuse of the Game Commission deliberately designed and promoted? Sincerity Unquestioned I do not question the sinrerity and honesty of the majority of per sons writing In onposition to Game Commission policies. There al ways has been, and always will be. a great deal of disagreement over fish and game management teehnioue. In fact, even the ex perts don't always agree. But did a propaganda letter to the editor here and there embolden a larse number of critics? And did prod ding front orooasandists have any thins lo do with the organization of dissidents and the circulation of netitions seriously striking at Game Commission nrestige? I'm frank to sav' I don't know. But (he lowering of prestige has been a great factor in the nresent plan (o destroy the Game Commis 9n &cuj.d Toka.ii from tht files 40 YEARS AGO April 17, 1923 Dist. Atty. George Neuner told the law enforcement conference here that Douglas County is one of the cleanest counties in the state so far as liquor law violations are concerned. "Of course there are stills in the county." he said, "but they are very few. There is pos sibly 200. of them, more or less, but we have no knowledge of them."- Because of heavy traffic to Karshfield and Coos Bay over the Roseburg-Myrtle Point highway. the Coast Auto lines have been re quired to arrange for another daily trip to accommodate their patrons. IS YEARS AGO ' April 17, 1931 President Roosevelt today par Hemorrhoids Cured Painlesslv By Non-Surgical Method The non-surgical, electronic! method for treatment of Hem ' nrrhoids (Piles) developed byj doctors of the Beal-Oliver ; Sandy Blvd. Clinic has been so successful and permanent in I nature that the foHovnnjr pol icy is offered their patients: "After all symptoms of Hem orrhoids . . . hava subsided and the patient has been dis charged, if he should ever have j A recurrence, all further treat sion, for which organized sports men have worked so long and hard in an effort to free it from poli tical control. ' And, on this subject of propagan da, The Oregon Journal credits Rep. William Holstrom, D-Gear-hart, with the charge that em ployes of the Oregon Game Com mission have been lobbying against the governor's proposal by threat ening legislators with 'political reprisals." . . Statement Questioned The Journal joins me in the state ment that extensive inquiry has failed to expose that any member of the Game Commission or. any employe ever uttered such a state ment. ' .,.'. The Journal adds: We are personally acquaint ed with a number of Game De partment staff men, including the director, Phillip - W. Schneider. We regard them as public servants of an-unusually high caliber. We are con fident that the men we know have been circumspect in their handling of this issue. They have never discussed it with us. If there have been violations of the kind charged by Hol strom, the men involved should be punished. If Holstrom in his anger has overstated the case, the public should be so informed. Sen. Harry Bovin, D-KIamath Falls, it would seem to me, has offered the best advice. ' Protesting the "urgency" with which proponents are pushing the badly multilated Department of Natural Resources bill, he suggest ed that he has entered a bill which would set up an interim committee investigation of Game Commission policies, and that the study should be awaited , by the Legislature be fore it approves drastic changes. Sutherlin Couple Tells Of New Grandchild By MRS. JERRY DeMUTH Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith of Sutherlin are the grandparents of a new grandson. Robert Stockton, born April 3 lo Mr. and Mrs. Dick Firman of Eugene. The baby weighed 9 pounds, 13 ounces.- The Firmans have two, daugh ters. Gina Gay and Shana. who snent the weekend in Sutherlin at the home of the grandparents. They were taken home on Sunday to greet the new arrival. Bucks Visit Mr. and Mrs. Merle Riirt nl j Beaverlon were recent visitors at me nome of the lattcr's parents, Mr. and Airs. Harold Jones. Also visiting at the Jones home were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stofsick of Cas per, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Hubhell were In ' Portland for a few days re cently. Twenty-three students from East Elementary School were listed on Ihe third nine-week honor roll, ac cording to Richard Scott, princi pal. Cjone t3i of Tht Ntwt-Rtvitw doned Dr. Francis E. Townsend, old age pension advocate, as he was about to enter a Washington, D.C., jail to begin serving a 30 day jail sentence for contempt of a House committee. Ministers and lay delegates of I approximately 20 churches in west: ern Oregon met in Roseburg for a two-day district conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south. 10 YEARS AGO ! April 17, 1953 I Sheriff Cal Baird has been the , principal target of accusations ! growing out of the shooting of C. I D. Burgoyne near Riddle. Feb. 1. The Douglas County Grand Jury Monday will convene to consider facts of the case. racnts will be given without additional fee." 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