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THE LIGHTER SIDE: Here, Son, Go Buy a New Test Tube" Conquest Of China Planned By Solon ot1 i at I a q W n i 4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1963 Student This week Myrtle Creek -.reported' it was-sending a youngster to Germany for a year and would host a German youth here. Almost simultaneously, Sutherlin reported it would host a high school girl." frorrl , Jutland, Denmark, next year. 'In the county now are a Japanese boy , at Canyonville, a Chilean boy at Rose- .. burgr and a Japanese boy at Reedsport. , ' this is just the start, apparently. The . appeal. ;of the .program of exchanjring ' .' students from the county is growing fast.- . Recently,' a meeting was held to promote greater use of the American Field Services- program ; in . Roseburg.' The focal 1 pojrit .of the show was a series of. talks . by .young people from foreign lands now living in Douglas and Lane counties, and Lane county students who had viBited foreign countries. They, and every one of the young peo pie who have spent time here in the' last few years, proved they are ambas sadors of the first caliber. They showed that nothing could lead to international understanding more ef fectively than having the students of one country mingle with the students and live A Good , In recent news releases from Oregon Slate University a number of students from Douglas County were named on the honor roll for the past term. These stu dents represent a cross section of near ly every high school in the county. This In itself would indicate the area is holding its own with quality teaching as compared to other areas of the state, and the nation, represented by the col lege's enrollment. However, .three' of these students list--ed on the term honor roll were singled out for even higher honors. They earned 4.0 grade-point averages. The total enrollment at . Oregon State - In The Day's News By FRANK As this li written, a reader has just called on the phone to report that her teen-age daughter thinks alio heard on the air a broadcast to the effect (that, some Southern schools" are ; considering asking men jugiHiaiure iq. pass a utw re quiring that Mark Twain's "Adven tures of Huckleberry Finn" - be called in and rewritten in "good grammar." She says she would like to know If anyone else heard the broadcast. Hmmmmmm. What I'd like to know is what it would sould like ol Mark Twain's immortal masterpiece was rewrit ten in what people of that ilk would call good grammar. From Salem: An amended bill for CONTROL OhV STRAY CATS was approved thli week by the Senate Mllilary Affairs Committee of the Oregon legislature. The bill passed the house earlier. As-revised by the Senate commit tee',, it now authorizes counties to operate programs for control of stray cats. Other provisions were deleted. Qucition; ' ' ' How about' an amendment pro viding for control of the characters who are too tender-hearted to drown or chloroform or otherwise painlessly put out of the way lit ters of kittens that they regard as surplus and so put them in a sack and carry them out into the country and dump them out on the roadside to , STARVE . TO DEATH? , Another (tucstion: What the Sam Hill business Is it of tlio military affairs commit tee of the Senate of the Oregon legislature to draft . laws for the control of stray cats? Are stray cats coming to be a military problem? From Eugene: Teen-agers here are playing with deaUi by taking injections of chest rub medications into their veins. the Lane ..County Health Depart ment warned this week. It report ed three cases of teen-agers using this "new form of IhriUseeking have been reported recently ' by the Eugene police department. Dr. Edward Goldblatt, of the county health department, said teen-agers may believe that this is "non-addicting method of achiev ing roughly .the same results as MS S. E Mem SI. ftosebura. Oreoon Telephone ORcrurd J-33I1 Entered fi te,ond class -metier May 7, M. al Ihe post olllce al Roseburg, Or cjon. undar act of March J. la!3. Publlihed Dally Except Sunday by news-df-view publishing CO. J. V. Brenner . ... Publisher The News.Revlew Is a member of the United Pratt International. NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Clrrulnllon and tha Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. National Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co., Russ Building. San Francisco Calil. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carr-et ano Roseburg P. O. Boses 1 month, 11.75; e months. llo.SO; I year. SII.00 By Ml. In Oregon: I month, II.7JJ 3 monlha, 14.40 a month!, .M; 1 year $11.00. Outside ef Oregon: 1 month, Sl.fii 1 months, i.aj, 4 months, I year 71.00. ..... Exchanges Prove in' the homes of another. They showed it ' didn't take long for them to adopt the country to which they were sent and to "adopt" the families with whom they lived during their stay abroad. If there was enmity built up in them through misunderstanding, it soon dis . appeared. The. effect is one of a pebble dropped, in a still pool. When the young Rter returns to his home country, he knows when his fellow countrymen have the wrong idea about us because "he was there." When- these misconceptions are challenged by him, he is recognized as an "expert" .of sorts. Others, too, will 'quote 'him,' and the misconception can be effectively dispelled. The same is true when we send a youngster to another country. He or she comes back glowing about the experi ence, but, more importantly, he or she is quick to challenge, ideas we have which are wrong. It may seem to be a small step in bringing about world understanding and peace, but it's probably as effective as any program we have, because it reach es the people, not just their leaders. Mark For County Education JENKINS are obtained from narcotics." ?????? Let's not get too badly excited yet. ..: :-- ; .,;.' ... Renumber the cbrnslik cigaret tes out behind the born If it's forbidden, "it's attractive. If it's DANGEROUS, it has to be tried; But- I can't help remembering a teen ager who visited me in my office a few days . ago. She was born blind,' She is now 13 just begin ning her teens. She reads Braille. She writes Braille on a apecial typewriter. On that morning, she had just finished reading the Braille edition of the Reader's Di gest from' cover to cover. She speaks German and French in a beginning way. She is interested in music. She WANTS TO BE A NEWSPAPER WOMAN. For this teen-ager, there is no BOREDOM. For her, it is a fas cinating world, and she is interest ed in all the wonderful things that are going on in it. I wish some of these thrill-seek Ing teen-agers could talk to her. 11 would do them good. Lutheran Women Set Annual Rally The Society of St. Paul's Luth eran Church (Missouri Synod) of Grants Pass will host the ninth annual rally of Southern Oregon, The rally will be held Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the church which is located at Fifth and Evelyn Sis. All women are invited. There will be a noon luncheon and free child care. . The meeting will be conducted by the president, Mrs. A. Hcnning of Jacksonville, assisted by vice president, Mrs. II. Braatt o Klam ath Falls, and secretary-treasurer, Mrs. A. Juhnke of Central Point. Also parlicipeting will be mem bcra from societies from Lakcvlcw, Klamath Falls, Medford, Ashland, Tri City, Sutherlin and Roseburg. Oregon District President Mrs, Richard Moeller from Cornelius will be - in attendance and will speak to the assembly. Mrs. Wil liam Fischer from Salem will be guest speaker and will show slides of the Holy Land. Sutherlin School Seeks Names Of First Graders School officios at Sutherlin East Elementary School are seeking the names of all the boys and girls who will be first grade students at the school next fall. Any parent of a child who will be entering East School next fall, who has not sent in a written form to the school, is urged to ) cull ;tll2 .ani give name and in lormanon to sirs, jean smith, school secretary. These children are to be invited to the school as a part of the May 13 third annual "Move-up Day" program, correspondent Mrs. Jer ry DeMuth reports. Fruitful University is slightly over 10,000. Out of that mass of students, only 107 made that perfect grade average. And of that 107, three were from Douglas County, The students were Darold W. Calla han of Roseburg, a junior, majoring in forestry; Donald G. Page of Winston, majoring in business and technology; and Neil R. Koozer of Oakland, sopho more, majoring in science. Douglas County, and especially the communities from which these students come, can be proud of their accomplish ments. They are indeed among those in a very exclusive group. The Almanac By Unlttd Prais International Today is Saturday, April 20, the 100th day of 1063. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Venus and Snt'irn. The evening stars are Mars and Mercury. , . On this day in history: In 18.10, Congress established the territory of Wisconsin. In 1801, Col. Robert E. Lee re signed his commission in the U.S. Army with the intention of offer ing his services to the .Confederate cause. In 1020, Dr. Weir C. Keller of Grove City, Pa., became the first person to address an organization by radio. He broadcast a speech to the New Castle, Pa., Rotary Club, 25 miles away. In 1948, United Automobile Workers Union President Walter Reuther was seriously wounded by a shotgun blast fired by an un known assailant. A thought for the day Cicero said: "He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect." Forestry Tours Slated Next Week Two spring forestry tours are scheduled next week by the Ore gon State Extension Department in Douglas County. Participating will be sixtli grade students from county schools. Bob Bradley, extension forester, said that on Wednesday, sixth grad ers from Canyonville, Days Creek, Tiller, Glendalc, Riddle, Myrtle Creek and Tri-City will tour on Ihe South Umpqua Rod and Gun Club grounds in Canyonville. This is a new tour which has been set up, Bradley said. On Thursday morning, Sutherlin and Glide students will gather at the Bert Melius Tree Farm three miles west of Tenmile for the Cen tral Douglas tour. In the afternoon a special tour in the same area will be conducted for students in the vocational agri culture classes at Roseburg High SCHOOL w""s wwwwsini. 3n 2cuj5 40 YEARS AGO ' April 10, 1923 A case of considerable interest will be heard in the local justice court on Thursday of next week when a Sutherlin man is tried for trapping without license. This case is of considerable iimwrtanco to the Game Commission, since the decision will have bearing on the future of the state game laws. It will determine the extent to which power may be delegated. Knseburg's Chatauqiia season has been advanced one full month this year and the soven-day pro gram which will be brought to this communitv will begin on June IS. 35 YEARS AGO April 20, 1931 A public hearing to review a f Ltfflf ;-.-i;iic';fvj;-..y hr'; By ROBERT C. RUARK It was a cold night in Cleveland and the wind was blowing off the lake. This was a long, long, long time ago. The face was familiar. 11 Had some Cherokee blood in it, and a name to match. It was Early Wynn, with whom I had suffered in the mid-Thirties with the Wash ington Senators. It was a North Carolina Indian face, and it hated the gritty wind of Cleveland, blow ing off the lake. "I m gonna win the big three,' the face said, and I am afraid both the face and I were a touch tempered agr.inst the wind by a little firewater.- "I'm gonna take tho big cassino, so help me." "You're out of your Cherokee mind,'' 1 said. "Not with the kind of ball clubs you play for. Six- Reader Social Security Program i Called Depression Brake To The Editor: In his letter appearing in The News-Review April 17, Mr. Rex Wilson seems worried about the Social Security program. Maybe we should be concerned about tax es, but what we really need to be concerned about, it seems to me, is the waste, graft and giveaway deals: the billions being squand ered on nonsense, such as trips to the moon and Mars, etc. If all the "nuts" playing fast and loose with our present and future, as woll as our money, could be given a one-way ticket to the moon, I'd say send thorn. Then, perhaps, the rest of us could live in peace here for a while at least. Now, as to Social Security (also old age assistance), if it were not for these programs, small and in sufficient as they are, we would have a depression such as never has been heard of before. Every cent of money received through these channels has to be spent for necessities. This money, then, helps keep the butcher, the baker, etc., in business and keeps indus try going. I'm not prepared to say what about the medicare part of the Social Security program, but I do know that no poor person can af ford to be sick. It is loo expensive. Something needs to be done to help people of small means along these lines. The amount proposed under Social Security is insufficient, I feel sure. It doesn't cover doc tors' fees nor dentistry merely hospital care. I believe. The richest nation on earth ........ ,.r,,n Cjone $2l report made in 1911 on feasibility of making the Umpqua river nav igable was announced by the U. S. Army Engineering Corps. The body of W. II. Mather, far mer of Ihe Peel district, was found by a diver today after his truck plunged into Little River at the Fall Creek bridge, one day earlier. 10 YEARS AGO April 20, H5J llatrv V. sanitdn tank m.,r "" i o ....... ... f meet in .siemurci aunoav as guesis in the. epvpnlh innine irpi,8Mo;.yDOU8'aS C,ly!of the Rogue Valley ChW '". ftT Mm out. Fn. iiut ,!.. .. PJngs G'11" W1 be ,h S1,e 01 to whichever country I inhabit. 1 .,; g. , . 11 have the other portion of that sion forester, told Roseburg hi- A guest speaker from Tacoma firewater we never finished in waman, that farm forestry pr.c- will be present to address tto'S. o. m manylears ices in Douglas County were po- combined groups, according to,g0, wnen thc winn w coming tentially worth about SS.2 million Mrs. Nelson Goer, secretary of the strong from the lake per year for county farmers. local club. i icocyriiht, itu r unitea- Feature yn. inc.) i it, v v an t '' Early Wynn Eyes Chance For 300th Walter -Johnsons couldn't win 300 ball games with a standing start in Washington not these days." "I'm 'a mean Injun," Early Wynn said. "Let's go find some more firewater " He's A Terror As of this writing, . at least, Early has not had a chance to go after No. 300, but I hope he does pretty soon, because here is a ball player who would dust off his mother to protect an earned-run average, who would blow his sis ter back from the plate to defend a seventh position in the last week of the season, and who would and has thrown., al the head of his young son when Junior was crowding the plate on him. Early Wynr. came up to the Senators in the. late Thirties, and nearly everybody who knew him Opinions should be able to solve its own problems along these lines. I've heard that Denmark, Swed en and other poorer nations have found ways to take care of sucn matters. We might learn some thing by investigating how they did it. Mrs. C. B. Stallsmith 6510 65th Place West Lynnwood, Wash. Sutherlin Church ' To Present Choir The Sutherlin Assembly of God Church will host a second appear ance in the area Sunday of the 32-voice choir of the Canyonville Bible Academy. The Sutherlin con cert is set for 7:30 p.m. at the church. A morning concert is scheduled at the Roseburg Assem bly of God Church. The choir, now on a spring tour, travels extensively throughout Or egon during the year. The Rev. Grant L. Ford, music instructor at the academy, is conductor for the concerts. The Rev. D. L. Nultncier, pastor of the Sutherlin church, invites the public to attend the Sunday eve ning concert. Speaker Is Slated At Free Methodist The Rev. Maurice C. Miller, re cently returned from an Evange listic tour of Formosa, will show slide pictures this Sunday evening at 6:30 in the Free Methodist Church, West Harvard and Ump qua. ' MiMer is superintendent of Ore gon Free Methodist Churches and was awarded the tour by the Gen-1 meaning. But the White Sox brass eral Missionary Board because of i told him the had to go with the increase in Oregon Missions' giv- younger men. Conditioning is hell ing last year. He was accompanied on people of my vintage, and while by his wife Margaret, whose ex-1 the eye may he acute and the arm penscs were paid by Oregon Free j limber, them old legs jest don't Methodist churches. ! answer like 'hey used to when During part of their stay in For-1 you were a colt. mosa, the Millers were in Taiwan' Signal Sent Up assisting Missionary Geneva Sayre i am rarelv sentimental about sister of J. V. Sayre of Roseburg. people who live by sweat, but in According Hi rastor i-aui j. Ar - nett, all are welcomed to see and hear this interesting presentation Chinchilla Chapters Set Medford Meeting Sunday The Umpqua Chapter of the Gold c.,,.! f-i.:nAk;,in ...:u then is dead or retired. He was quiet kid. and he had no ball club to play for. He s in his tor. ties now it says 43, out 1 m will ing to bet he's as old as I am, and I passed that 43 a long time ago and he still wants tne one more ball game to join the im mortals. Only eight pitchers in this century have won 300 ball games, and most of them on better clubs than the Washington Sena tors, the Cleveland Indians and tho Chicago White Sox. And Wynn, in full stride, was also interrupted by. a war. Competition Fierce The enormity of this man's fierce competiton against a man with an ashen stave in his hand is mirrored in figures. W h i t e y Ford has only 175, as of last year. The great Red Ruffim; with all that Yankee power only made it to 273, Burleigh Grimes collected 270, the incomparable Bob Feller, 266, and the masterly Ted Lyons only 260. The only active pitcher within a furlong of Early Wynn is Robin Roberts who has 244, and Robin won't see enough ball games for the rest of his life to fatten that score by a fourth. Perhaps Early Wynn ilidn t real ize it at the time he came up to the Senators when I was a cub. but he had something extra which over-nowercd the incompetence of Clark Griffith's rehired rejects from better years, and all ot tne Cubans that old Joe Cambria wet- backed into Orlando. A boy like Rene Monteaguido mieht have a cute motion toward first base, but somebody would beat his brains out when he aim ed his left hand at the plate. Boooy Estalclla might hit a fast ball out of the oark. but they curved him out of the majors. Roberto Ortiz wound up as an outfielder, instead of being "faster than Johnson." Some the old flutterballer, Dutch Leonard, and the beanpole kid, Sid Hudson lasted in other dimes. But mostly a pitcher on the Wash ington Senators occupied the posi tion of stand-in for a steer in the stockyards. Mean Learner Not Wvnn He was never great in Washington. He was merely mean. He learned. If a man had a cute motion to first. Early made his culer. If he couldn't think of any better pitch particularly with somebody like Jake Early (we were heavy on Earlys in those i days i catching he would throw !tl.I Knll nt tlin huttnr'c ItAnH Hie iee slit Xike ,n earlier ',i"'ar's- ted his chin and threw tight be fore the announcers learned to call it "tight " This past spring the old boy tried to sweat himself into shape as an unpaid member ot the White Sox in order to go for. that one more big win, which would mcrcge with his name and give it immortal ;the rasc 0f Earlv wynn I am sending up a small, prayerful smoke signal to the effect that he will catch on with one of the big league clubs and collect Ihe magic No. 300 of which he was cheated last vcar when Joe Pcpitone ot : ti, vnnir iulti.rl him nut of : .". ... . ... immortality witn a two-run nomer By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) One of the nice things about being an armchair strategist is that you can plan the invasion of an emire continent without having to fire a single shot. Among the sandbox warriors in Congress, the name of Rep. Dan iel J. Flood, D-I'a., stands near the top. And small wonder. Without leaving his seat on the House defense appropriations sub committee. Flood recently mapped out a grand design for the con quest of Communist China. As you can see, Flood thinks big. Most of the other armchair strategists in Congress have been occupying themselves with nothing more ambitious tnan tne conquest of Cuba. Flood offered his battle plans, free of charge, to Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Unfortunately, however, I am unable to tell you what Taylor's reaction was. The printed transcript of tne hearing leaves some large gaps in the discussion, largely because of Taylor's reluctance to discuss the subject tor publication. But this much I can tell you: When Flood is planning a mili tary maneuver, he makes Hanni bal with all of his elephants look like a piker. The Flood plan for the con quest of Red China is so breatn takingly simple it's a wonder someone hadn't thought of it before. The first half of the plan calls for Nationalist Chinese agents to infiltrate the mainland and line up support for an invasion south of the Yangtze River. Present Second Half The second half calls for Russia to assist in this venture by mov ing her troops into Chinese-held territory in the north. "Does it intrigue you at all?" asked Flood. "Off the record," said Taylor. Flood said that "Moscow is not going to start a thermonuclear war for Peiping." Off the record," said Taylor. Rather. Flood said, he was convinced that Russia was only interested in protecting her own borders and that "nobody, but no body," would help the Red Chi nese. "Off the record," said Taylor. The discussion continued in this vein for quite some time, with Flood elaborating on his slrate- Heritage Players Due In Sutherlin The Heritage Players, touring drama group from Eugene, will make a return visit to the area in their Monday night presentation scheduled for 7:30 al the Sutherlin Christian Church. The group will present the drama "Rehearsal In Kerioth," in a repeat of its recent presentation at the Winston Chris tian Church. Ron Coulter, formerly of Win ston, the troup's originator and di rector, is also the author of the drama. Coulter is a graduate of the University of Oregon in speech and theatre and is a special drama instructor at Northwest Christian College in Eugene. He recently toured the Orient in State Depart ment and USO performances. The Heritage Players, (former ly the Christian Drama Troupe), were originally sponsored by Northwest Christian College but are now an independent non-profit organization. They arc now in their fifth year of touring with their plays which combine quality relig ious drama literature with the tal ents of experienced and dedicated Christian performers. Although the group usually performs in church es, it is a policy to contribute its services to hospitals, orphanages, retirement homes and institutions of correction. Monday night's play deals with the experiences of a modern young actor ana actress who are unsvm pathetically rehearsing the roles of Judas Iscanot and Mary of Mag-dala. WHAT IS AMORTIZATION? When a ebt is gradually reducMl by the means of -anodic payments which art sufficient te cover current interest ond dissolve thc debt by moturity dole, it il referred to os amortisation. Our bonk mokes horn loens available en the omortiiotion twsls to enoble borrower! to rcoay more easily and increase equity foster. II you plon to buy or build e home, see our bonis (or linencinj first. DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE Kntburg Oakland Sutherlin gy and Taylor responding off the record. That made it difficult to read . between the lines. I gather, however, that Tay lor's enthusiasm was somewhat bounded, for Flood ended his pres-. entation on what appeared to be a rather lame' note. "Nobody else will .talk about these things but me around here, ' and so it just enlivens an after noon, perhaps," Flood said. "Off the record," said Tavlor. UNCLE AL'S STORY CORNER by Alan Knudrson of KNUDTSONS' JEWELERS . "TALK ABOUT . 1 STEELHEAD!" ' , "Silver-side salmon were so thick just below the dam (at what is now Umpqu? Park) that you couldn't wade into the water more' than knee deep". This was the statement of Frank Standcliffe made to me a few weeks ago. From 1908 to 1921, Frank and a ; man by the name of Burr Jones operated a commercial fishery on a section of the South Umpqua Riv er from just below the old Alex- ander's Bridge downstream to the !?!, wfr0?j!S' 'hicn was about (the old piers of this bridge lie underwater just a few feet down stream from the piers of the recent ly washed away . "swinging bridge ). This suspension bridge used to span the river about 400 yards downstream from the old mill dam at the fairgrounds. In those days, any rancher liv ing on a creek or river had no trouble obtaining fresh fish in sea son Most were provident enough , to smoke anil put away quite a quantity of salmon or other fish, as a sort of seasonal, chore, that ... made filling the winter larder, a , little less expensive. If the runs , were large and fishing circum stances easy, fish were even chop ped up and worked into the garden plots as fertilizer. For Frank and his partner, com mercial fishing was an after work job. most of the time being done at night or in late afternoon. Using 22 handmade set nets and 2 110 ft.' drift nets of 6'-a" mesh they caught in one night 700 stcelheari. Frank recalled that this bountiful haul waa made Feb. 15th of cither 1908 or 1509-that the Steclhead runs "were always good until March " Frank made some other interest ing observations concerning fish' population at that time. It was his opinion that the "south fork was never too good on Chinook, but was excellent for steelhead." He recalled having seen steelhead jumping the dam in a solid mat of fish estimated to be 200 to 300 fish in the air at one time. He also opined that silvers were by far the most numerous in the South Ump qua and chinook the most nu merous in the North Umpqua; this statement he made with the res ervation that he had gathered this information about the north fork from talking to the Pearsons and others who fished the north river.' How'd you like to buy fresh salmon or steelhead steak today for 3 to 3'4c per pound? That was the going price that Frank re ceived for his fish on the Portland market! BANK 1
