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THE LIGHTER SIDE: "Maybe. Them Vietcong Didn't Realize You Are Just an 'Adviser Sir!" 1 Eloquence Shown o r i a I IP a q y On Budget Cutting r 4 Hit Nwi-RivUw, Rotaburg, Or. The budget which Roseburg voters are being asked to support at next Tuesday's election is a practical schedule of ex penditures. It holds the line on normal municipal spending, while proposing a moderate capital improvement program which will benefit the community in terms of future development. This budget sets forth improvements vitally needed by the community. It de serves voter support. Of particular merit is the planned out lay of 45,000 for street improvements. The plan is to provide a program of ar terial street betterment and assistance " to property owners in financing residen . tial street paving. Lagging residential street development is perhaps the foremost problem con fronting Roseburg , today. The city has only 59.5 per cent of its opened streets paved. This problem is dramatized in terms of economy when one considers studies which ' indicate taking care of graveled streets is about four times as costly as the upkeep for paved streets. Hence, from an economy standpoint, the community would eventually gain in a monetary way from the enhancement of its street system. True, street construction costs have been high in Roseburg, and this factor ' has doubtless contributed to the lag. But the city administrators are now in the process of framing a new policy de signed to liberalize. front foot construc tion costs with the idea of making street projects more attractive to property owners. The city seeks to lower these costs by means of more extensive parti cipation in various aspects of the con struction. ' The request to broaden the use of un told blast area development funds to pro vide financing for park and swimming pool improvements also deserves . sup port. This proposal which appears as a second proposition on the ballot cannot be measured in the usual terms of mu nicipal economy or efficiency. This is a plan backed by community, leaders who are interested in giving Roseburg a better image and the appeal is on an esthetic as well as practical ba sis. Significantly, perhaps, the plan has .'. encountered no appreciable opposition ; from Roseburg citizens, , But then reai ,, dents here are traditionally enthusinstic about park development and are very ) proud of the parks they have. The question has been raised: Why buy more park lands when we can't de velop what we have? The question pre- supposes what is not true. Development, of Stewart Park over the past half-dozen , years has been effectively consistent. It is highly attractive recreational cen ter, praised by visitors and envied by many other communities. More develop ment of this site can be anticipated. But Stewart Park is in relative con trast to the river site plan. The new park is envisioned as a passive facility not a place to play baseball, but a beautification strip that will enhance the appearance of the central business area while preserving strategic "open space" for the enjoyment of generations to come. This will be a place of trees and lawn which welcomes the visitor in a warm tnd friendly way and adds beauty to be appreciated even more by the local peo ple who live, work and do their shopping In the area. Civic groups have already grasped the idea with relish. Already in terest hns been expressed for providing an artistic water fountain or a memori al. , .and development of a chapel hns Hang The meadow lark is on the wing; the tulips are waving their greeting to . spring; and the telephone solicitors are out in full force again. These solicitors are a hit-and-run group generally ready to sell their wares by any telephone persuasion, no matter how trying to the customer. We need say o 9 . Talum from ll.i (ilaa 40 YEARS AGO April 27, 1913 Incendiarism is believed to be responsible for the destruction by fire of the home of Sheriff Sam Starmer on Winchester St. last night. The building was to badly damaged by fire and water that it will probably be found necessary to rebuild the entire structure. . Preparations are being made to 145 S. S Mam ST. Roiaburg, Oraoon Talaptwn. ORchard I-J3JI Entarad wond claia matttr May 7. IfM, at tha peat offlca at Rotaburg, Or tan, undar ail of Marcti t, tin. Publlihad Dalty Excagt Sunday by i NEWSRPVIEW PUBUISHINO CO J. V. Brannar ftibllKu.- Tht Nawt-Ravlaw I, a mambar at tha L'nltad Praia IntamaHonal. NEA Sarvka, Audit feuraau of Circulation and tha Ortgon Ntwtoapar PueHahara Aaaoctallon. National Advartlilng Rapratantttlvo la Nawipapar Advartlilng Sarvlca Co., Ruas Building, San PranclKO Calif. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' Carrtar ano Rotaburg P. O. Bovaa 1 ' month. IMS, a monthi. ItoJO; t yaar. Mt.OO ' By M.I. In Oragom I month, sl.Mi I montha, UMi 4 montha, WOO, 1 yaar ; jit puttlda at Or agon: 1 month. i.?5i month, u a, 4 montha, 110. Ml 1 yaar Roseburg Budget Is Practical Up The Phone Quickly r n of The Nawi-Ravlaw meet representatives of the Yeo man's lodge who will be here Boon to investigate the proposed site for the children's home which the lodge expects to build at some time In the near future. 25 YEARS AGO April 27, ltM Henry Ford, 7-t-ycar-old auto magnate, sat down at luncheon with President Roosevelt today to talk business. "Umpqua Ski Club" Is the offi cial title for the newly formed ski group, Roseburg and Douglas coun ty's first venture into the realm of outdoor winter sports. 10 YEARS AGO April 27, 1951 The Informal faceting commit tee for Bob George, new Roseburg football coach, turned the Satur day luncheon at the Umpqua Hotel into an organizational meeting for an athletic booster Club. (The club is now known as the Indian Club.) Appointment of Karl S. Mollard as general manager of the smelt ing operation at Riddle was an nounced today by the Hanna Nick el Co. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1963 been suggested, if the land is available. The American Legion post is interest ed in developing a building on property adjoining the park for use "as a commu nity facility. This building would be de signed so as to complement the park fea tures and incorporate the landscape ben efits. Urgently needed swimming pool im provements will also be realized if the blast fund proposition is approved. There is not much point in arguing this need. Roseburg must either bring this pool up to standard, or close it down. The plan to provide "hot water" for the pool has every swimmer's hearty endorsement. Residents in communities all over the country are concerned over the increas ing cost of government and high taxes. They should be. (Although in spite of this concern, there is mass absenteeism at most municipal budget elections.) Municipalities, of course, are faced with the same problems of rising costs that confront all other areas of the busi ness economy. They must also meet in creasing demands for public services. Administrators are caught between the pressures for services and the pressures Cor curbing taxes. It's no easy task. Municipal employes require and are entitled to the same opportunity for pay increases on a regular basis, as are re ceived by employes in private industry. Departmental operations must be kept at certain standards consistent with the increasing services performed. These things are added to the problem of mu nicipal budgeting. Hpw to keep taxes down in the light of rising costs and add ed services is, indeed, a problem of con siderable proportion. The city budgeters have done their best. The budget reflects an effort to make better use of existing personnel. One example of this is in. the Police De partment where it is planned to replace a male desk officer with a woman pre viously assigned as a meter maid. This will relieve a police officer to perform regular law enforcement duties. The re maining meter maid 'will handle the me ter program alone but will cover ground more rapidly buy use of a motor scooter.' The Police Department exemplifies the problem of expanding municipal serv ice. The department has 18 uniformed of ficers and one civilian. Statistically, that means 1.37 officers per .1,000 population. Those who' wonder at the growth of po lice agencies should consider the cle . mands made upon modern law enforce ment. , Crime pays no attention to municipal budgets but, on the contrary, requires more diligence from police agencies. As more and more automobiles crowd the streets and highways, police depart ments become involved in ever-increasing investigative activity for the vehicu lar carnage. The list is endless but the result is that law enforcement has be come a complex, expensive thing. It is also a complex field in which police of ficers must possess high qualifications to be accepted and then are exposed to many hours of special training so that they can keep pace with the changing facets of police investigation. All things considered, this is a sound and reasonable budget. It represents the middle ground between conservative and progressive philosophies espoused by members of the budget committee. It is not an extravagant budget. It asks the public to continue to sup port those programs which it now has . . .and to move ahead just a little. little about the greater benefits which can be received by doing our buying from local people. They can offer serv ice, and buyers can demand accountings from them, in person. Catching a fly-by-night telephone salesman is not that easy. The telephone should be hung up quickly when they come on the line. County Tax Deputy Serves State Group Nclda Svarverud, chief tax dep uty of the Douglas County Sher iff'a Department, is serving on the planning committee of the State Tax Commission's 10th annual Tax Collectors Inservice Training School, scheduled May 23 and 24 in Salem. The school is held in compliance with state law requiring the com mission to instruct county tax col lectors in the matters of law, le gal interpretations and the many detailr of the property tax collect ing process. At a recent meeting in Salem attended by Mrs. Svarverud, the committee outlined a preliminary program calling for speakers and panel discussions on subjects of prime interest to those in the prop erty tax collection field through out the stale. List year's school drew a rec ord attendance of 108, including 15 sheriffs, from 31 counties the largest number of counties ever represented. t Mister Donald Iddon, a reason ably testy visitor in our midst for the past double-decade of his toil for London's Daily Mail, writes himself a good piece the other day which I propose to steal trom. Don's offering to the homefolks back in Blighty deals with politi cians, and the headline is: "They Smile and I Can't Bear It." By gum. he's got a point. We have plumped so much personal ity into politics that we might just as well hire Danny Kaye or Sid Caesar for the Presidency, and sling a crowd-pleaser like Judy Garland in as Secretary of State. After all, who's got prettier legs? Dean Rusk? Ike, and I fault him not for his eight-year job as a reformed gen eral in high office, made it on the Elsenhower grin. Truman combin ed i Mack-the-knife grin with a mediocre piano performance to knock off The Little Man on the Wedding Cake, Tom Dewey, who had a funny mustache and a gap in his front teeth. ' Smile Tried Dick Nixon tried a smile, but his face didn't fit it. Ho could not out smile the combined Kennedys, starting with Papa Joe, who pat ented the open-mouthed approach to immortality in the dynasty he founded. All the Kennedys smile.' Jack. Jackie. Bobby. Teddy. Teddy, barely out of rompers, smiled his way into the Senate. Bobby smiled his way into the Cabinet as At torney General, although he had never tried a case. Jack, and Jack ie, and Caroline and shortly, I presume, John Junior sprayed enough teeth around to found a fortune in toothpaste advertise ments. What the hell is everybody so happy about, once the political bug bites? You read a resume of an average front page, where there is nothing but assassination, storm, tragedy, revolution, taxes, air crashes, submarines disappearing atomic fallout, Russia, China. In dia, all cuts and classes and crises, ana everybody smiles. Smile Becomes Smart The late FDK really shoved the smile into modern politics. FDR tilted ins chins, jutted his cigar ette holder, and committed that big, moose-jawed grin for four terms as President, and I have no Tugman State Park Dedication June 6 Dedication ceremonies for the Tugman Memorial State Park at Eel Lake south of Reedsport have been scheduled for 2 p.m., June 6, according to Forrest Cooper, state nignway engineer. The 460-acre park is eight miles south of Reedsport on US101. The park is named to commemorate the late William M. Tugman, former chairman of the state Parks Ad visory Committee. He was an Ore gon editor and publisher who de voted much time to promoting state parks. Loran Stewart, chairman of the State Parks and Recreation Ad visory Committee, will be the main speaker at the dedication. Tugman Memorial park was ap proved lor acquisition and develop ment in January of 1962. It is one of the newest additions to the Ore gon State Parks System. The land was deeded to the state Highway Commission by the state Game Commission. For the time being, the park will be for day-use only. Main ac tivities available are fishing, swim ming, picknicking and hiking. The lake has a sandy beach. The High way Department plans to build camping facilities at a later date At present, camping facilities are of views on world problems be available at the nearby Umpqua tween Kennedy and the defense Politico s Smile Getting Tiresome doubt that the smile might have accounted for another hitch if death had not intervened. Certain ly Wendell Willkie's tousled bangs and general air of barefoot boy couldn't vanquish the patented FDR grin. Mr. Roosevelt managed to outgrin Hitler and Hirohito, the Great Depression and the death of the Blue Eagle, the resentment of the Supreme Court, assorted Re publican opponents whose names escape me, and even survived staunchly some of the more color ful doings of his own family. Perhaps the finest ham in the history of politics and here I re move a slight touch of Mickey from Mr. Iddon is our newest, most important American citizen, Mr. Churchill. Nobody ever touch ed Sir Winston for hamming it up the prop cigar, the double-domed derby, the V-for-'victory fingers. the brandy-and-champagne acces sories, and the kind of orotund ora tory that would have been a credit to the ancient Athenian word spouters. Rocky OK Our Mr. Rockefeller is coming on pretty good with the smile busi ness, and I will wager him to out smile any of the other contenders when the Republicans come up for slaughter in the next elections. Barry Goldwater's smile lacks ha News Analysis Iranian Land Reform TEHRAN. Iran (UPI) Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlcvi's land reform program is running into opposition from thousands of rov ing tribesmen who do not want to turn in their guns and give up their lawless way of life. Most Iranians enthusiastically support the program, and since its introduction last winter many large estates already have been split up among the peasants who formerly worked on them. But officials trying to carry out the land reform in some tribal areas have been greeted with gunfire, and troops sent to en force the law have had serious clashes with the tribesmen. Eight gendarmes and 32 tribesmen were killed in one recent rifle battle. Limited Ownership For the average peasant, there Change In Cigarettes Urged Sn Cancer Fight WASHINGTON (UPI)- A gov ernment cancer expert says peo ple apparently won't give up smok ing, regardless of evidence tend ing to link it with cancer. He said the answer might be to change the smokes, not the smokers. Dr. Kenneth M. Endicott. direc or of the National Cancer insti tute, told a House appropriations subcommittee in testimony made public Thursday that research is being conducted to either elimi nate cancer-causing factors from cigarettes or adding chemicals to counter them. TO ADDRESS OFFICERS WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy Friday was sched uled to address a closed meeting of several hundred military and staff officers of the Defense De partment at the Pentagon. The morning session was ex pected to consist of an exchange ' mility: in today's game, Barry, you got to combine a sort of little- boy-wistfulness with the dentifrice bit. Offhand I would say t n a 1 Scranton can outsmile Romney, but they both lack Rocky's solidity. Perhaps a background of really solid money parlayed over the years gives a special seal of ap proval to the political smile. We have touched on the fact be fore that the TV age would have ruined Abe Lincoln, and that Bob Taft. rest his sincere and uncom promising bones, never really made it with the people because of a sort of oatmealy appearance. Dick Nix on blew the duke on TV, with the odd components of his face comic up top, villain below when he ran afoul of the Kennedy hairdo and the Kennedy grin. But it is getting terribly tire some, all this personality loosed on the world. I would love to see us elect an ugly politician someday, to high office a man with a vin egary kisser, like Silent Cal; a man who looked like a dyspeptic baby, like Herbert Hoover: an hon-est-to-Gawd, ugly fellow like Hon est Abe. And without smiles. Or pretty wives. Or proo children. Just one man who had something to offer that Sergeant Bilko couldn't do better. (Copyright, 1963 by United Peatura Synd., Inc.) can be no quarrel with the shah's unprecedented decision to restrict individual ownership to 75 acres, nationalize all forests, and offer the lands arour.d religious shrines to peasants on 99-year leases. The shah showed the way by giving the Ministry of Agriculture 3.5 million acres of his own forest land, valued at more than $200 million, to be split up among the peasants. The reforms were sorely need ed. In the past, 90 per cent of Iranians working the land were tenant farmers who paid four fifths of the harvest as rent and for seed, livestock and equipment. But the migratory tribesmen do not have the same problems. WHAT IS A "SPECIAL' Tli if it checking account plan in which checks are paid far before they are used. It is sometimes the mtnt cconomicol plan for those who maintain a imofl balance in their checking account, and write only few checks. Our eiperienced. helpful bank tellers will be glad to help you decide whether the pay-at-you -go or the regular checking acount is the best plan for you. Come in soon. DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE Roseburg Oakland SutheHin By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UP!) Rep. Jim Wright, a lyrical Democrat of Texas, looked out the window the other day, noticed a change in the weather and began to rhapsodize thusly: ii Willi bjiriuguuiv UlUbauuiiiiB iw all over, nome owners in every part of the country are busy work ing on their lawns and shrubbery mowing, trimming, pruning. "Here in Washington most of us in Congress are doing another kind of pruning. We're trying to make intelligent cuts in the na tional budget." Wright penned these lines in a press release that seemed to me to capture the very essence of springtime in Congress the es sence but not the conglomeration. Metaphor Incomplete What I mean is that his gar dening metaphor, while valid as far as it went, was incomplete. Budget pruning is by no means all that goes on at the Capitol during this season. For every lawgiver that you see up in the branches with a pair of pruning shears you will find an other down on the ground pour ing on the fertilizer. According to an old rule of greenthumb, intelligent fertilizer spreading may produce even bet ter results at the grassroots than intelligent pruning. Many members of Congress are both pruners and fertilizer spread ers, frequently at the same time. One more word about pruning. It is important always to prune very carefully. Otherwise, you might pare off the limb you are out on. If that happens, no amount of fertilizer will save you. - The Almanac By United Press International Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 1963 with 248 more to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury and Mars. Those born today include Ulys ses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, in 1822. On this day in history: In 1777, Bendiet Arnold defeat ed the British at Ridgefield, Conn. In 1937, the first Social Security payment was made in accordance with the provisions of the Social Security Act of. 1935 In 1941, Athens, Greece, fell be fore the German invaders. In 1917, baseball fans through out the nation observed "Babe Ruth Day" in honor of the se riously ill home run king. A thought for the day Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes said: "He that proclaims the kindnesses he has received, shows his dis position to repay them if he could." Hits Shoals They like their way of life and fiercely resist change. The tribal khans or chiefs own vast estates and command the firm allegiance of their men. Live on Robbery Many tribesmen rob travelers; others supplement their income by raising opium poppies. To stamp out this lawlessness, the government decided to dis arm and resettle the tribesmen as well as parcel out their chief tains' land. For the average tribesman, the resettlement plan would be better deal. But distrust of the government, loyalty to his chief, and attachment to his rifle seem to exert - a stronger pull. ACCOUNT BANK Another popular springtime ac tivity in Congress is cross-pollinating. The latest census shows that more congressmen try to cross pollinate the budget rather than try to prune it. Taking a lesson from mother na ture, they have found that if they carry a little pollen to someone else's flower, buzzing loudly about it, someone else will sprinkle a little pollen their way. This is why so many of us tax- ' payers have hay fever. 1 - Planting is, of course, also im portant at this time of year. Al most every congressman is trying, to plant something, even if it's only a foot on some bureaucrat's back acreage. In addition, a sizable number of budget horticulturists devote their efforts to watering it down. All of this feverish activity, of which pruning is only a small part, , explains in large measure why the budget grows i such peculiar shapes, luxuriant in one spot and stunted in another. It could be worse, however. There is always a possibility that one or more congressmen will carry Wright's garden metaphor to the ultimate extreme and take up grafting. 4 Z5Z UNCLE AL'S STORY CORNER by Alan Knudtson of KNUDTSONS' JEWELERS "I've got something I want fix ed," said the elderly lady as she placed her well worn leather purse on the counter and began fumbling through it with her wrinkled hands, which bore the marks of the years and much hard work. Because of what appeared to be a problem more of poor eyesight than . a search among the diverse objects contained in the purse, she felt each item in turn, finally identify ing a small cardboard pill box, which she took from her purse and opened feebly, after first pulling off the two rubber bands that held it closed. Inside the box, wrapped in a handkerchief, was obviously some object guarded and treasur ed by her. "It's in here someplace," she said, somewhat apologetically, for having taken my time in the searching operation or, per haps, it was because of a sort of anxiety over what my verdict would be concerning the repair of her jewelry. Lying on the handkerchief was a costume jewelry necklace of a pe riod long past made basically of lead, set with rhinestones which were much stained, partly with the constancy of wear, but mostly by sheer attrition of age. If those glass brilliants did, in some long ago time, sparkle and glisten, it was difficult to imagine as I look ed at them. "My husband gave it to me a long time ago, and I want it fix ed. It comes apart here," she ex plained, pointing to where the link of the chain had worn through the soft metal. "And I want those blue stones put back in the middle part of it." I would have given anything to have been able to tell her, "Yes. ma'm, we'll fix it up, and you can pick it up day after tomorrow." But repair was not possible. The strange shaped rhinestones were not obtainable, and the lead orna ment was worn beyond repair. Perhaps she knew this might be the outcome, but she did insist for a few minutes that perhaps 1 could cement it some way and substi tute other colored stones in place of the blue ones that were missing. In the end, she finally gathered up the pieces in the handkerchief and put them in the box again, saying as she did so that she knew it wasn't an expensive piece of jewelry, but that it was a piece of jewelry she kept as a keepsake. I reflected for sometime after she left that her husband might have given her something else, perhaps even less expensive, but designed and made with heirloom responsibilities. Perhaps a small sterling pin for a few dollar;, would have cost much less then, and now would still be beautiful, and also repairable, in case the years of use had worn heavily upon it. Every woman, it seems to me, should have one or more objects that bear the sentiment of oc casions long gone. Many of our objects of association -can be brok en, wear out, must be discarded for various reasons. But a well made piece of jewelry" goes on through generations, in each be ing described avidly as "the neck lace that Grandmother wore when she was married" or "the pin that Dad gave Mother in 1925, when they celebrated their 10th anni versary." (Advertisement) Lighthouse State Park. I aides. i
