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1 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Another Hot Line Mountain Climb Is For Intrepid Cdi t oria f fa$ ;-,V H 1 ' r 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Douglas County lias a dojf control law which is almost useless, and the reason is, if you'll pardon the expression, be cause it has no teeth. Several years ago, the county voter approved institution of a permissive state law aimed at stopping dogs from running at large. , , , ' Most people thought this would solve a big problem of dogs, whose owners were not keeping them under .control. But it turned out that the law was aimed at the wily dog, instead of his owner. ' II boiled down to the question of whether or not one dog control officer, ranging over 5,000 square miles of coun ty could catch the dog before he got hack home. ' , , , If the dog could be captured before he returned home, he could be impound ed at the Douglas County Humane So ciety shelter until the owners came to rjaim him. However, if the dog could leave his home, trample shrubs, chase livestock and generally be a nuisance, and return home before he could be cap tured, he was (and is) virtually safe. True, 'the law is still there, but it's practically worthless. If the dog control officer ami the distressed properly own er who is disturbed by, the dog can find out who owns the dog, the property own V can sue. This means such a property owner would huve to pay costs of hiring a lawyer and bringing it into court in a civil action. If the dog owner is found guiltv of letting his dog run at large, he will bo fined $10. '; . By Charles V. Slanton Dunes Seashore Hearing Won't Carry Much Weight ' Arguments both for and aguinst the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore Park were heard Saturday at Eu gene. The henving arranged by Sen. Maurine Neuberger to give Oregon people a chance to participate, was conducted by Sen. Lee Metcalf, Montana, representing the Senate Sub committee on Public Lands. ' The Kugene hearing, while permitting local expression oi Be of little weight in any final made in Washington. . A very interesting feature of the argument concerning the park Is sue is (hat peoplo who live nt some dislanco are all for turning the area over (o the National Park Service. They anticipate that crea tion of a national park along the seashore will be a big boost in Oregon's economy. ' On the other hand, pcoplo liv ing in the area are very bitter. They want no part of a national park. They can see little sense in turning over to (he National Park Service an area In which the major recreational resource al ready is in federal hands, being CJiitroIled by the United States Forest Service. In my opinion, the very attitude nf the residents of the area is as suring a transfer to the National Park Service. Status Quo Wntd It is evident from letters, state ments, testimonies, and other ex pressions from people of the area (except Douglas County) that they insist upon the slutus quo. They want nn change. They want no con trol. They want no regulation. They want no interference. Hut the trca u'0Kscd to be in cluded in a National Seashore has one very outstanding attribute. The whole coastal strip is most defin itely recreational In character. The recreational asset should and must he. preserved for future gen erations. I cannot fully justify in my own mind a huge expenditure from the federal treasury to create a nation al park in the area when the tame results could lie secured with far less cost if the existing recrea tional facilities, most of them al ready in the control of the Forest Service, were to bo developed to maximum use. But, such a pro gram would require cooperation from private land owners in the region. Program Poiiible II would be Mssible to create an over. all recreational and de velopment program between the Stale of Oregon, through its Park 3bo 31eu$ftcuicu Ui i. t i RoiabufO. Ormon Talypbon ORcbard ; 3,11 Entervd ai se.und clata mattar May ?, 1?0. Jl ISt w off lea al R9rtxirfl. Oft on, undw act of Alarcft 7, II'). Publlthtd Dally ficrp! Sunday by hCWS-RPVIEW PUBLISHING CO J. V. Brannar Pubblbar Tht N-wa.Rtvitw I a mambar of lha Unilfd Pram Imernalttwal, NtA : Sarvka. Audit Huraau af Circulation and rba) O'toon Nawtddpaf Publish!! Asioclalion National Advartiilno, Rapratantalivt ll Nawspaptf Adve'tialng Saivrta Ca , Run Building. San Franc Iko Call! lURsCPIPTION RATES Carr-a ana Roiaburo p o. Soaei I month. SI.7Si a montha, tin SO: I vaar. UI oo By AM. In Oraoon- I monh, II 1 montn, ta t ft monitn. f rtt, 1 yr-ar 1IIC0. Outtwa M Oraoon: 1 mofttn, tl.;i S monlht. IS lit t monlha, tlo.0 I vaar VI . Ore. Dog Law Needs More Editor's Corner highly desirable in respect to opinion win, in my opinion, decision r decision to be Division, the U.S. Forest Service, and the respective counties, through adequate zoning. Such a program could be accomplished for a very limited sum, as con trasted with millions that must be drawn from the public treasury to set up a National Park. But the private land holders seemingly aren't having any. Residents of Western Lane Coun ty have vigorously fought off all suggestions for zoning, land use or any oilier regulations which might preserve tho recreational re source, the primary asset of tho region. Coos County residents have been drugging their feet. Residents of Western Douglas County have been more coopera tive. The northern half now is set ting up land use classifications. While there has been some resist ance south of the Umpqua it is ex pected that a similar plan of land use will lie adopted there in the near future. Lands Nitdid No cooperative program has any thing to offer unless it includes I lie intermingled private land. It would actually be a joke if the Forest Service should engage In an expensive and extensive de velopment of Its own acreage, only to havo the Intermingled lands de veloped for garish, neon-lighted, noisy, honky-tonk uses, it also would be tlie height of folly to create a very fine recreational de velopment on a site adjoining an unsanitary, unpainted tarpapor sharktown. automobile wrecking yard, or a fish rendering plant. So long as the residents of the area are unwilling tu cooperate, and to Join in preservation of the recreational resource, a resource to which all people claim owner ship, while insisting upon maintain ing the status quo, coupled with complete rejection of all land use regulation, there is no alternative, as I see it, to the national park progruin, expensive though it may be. Tenmile Church Slates Mothers Day Program Special music Is planned for I Mothers Day it tin Tenmile Com Imunity .Meiliodisl Church on Sun .day mm mug al the Sunday School, j The children's choir under the direction of Mrs. Ralph Dwight. the junior rhoir under the direction "f j Mrs. Bill Centers and Ihe adult choir under the direction of Mrs Douglas Cmy. will sing special numbers with Mrs. F.ilgar Dwitht as organist, corresHndent Mrs. ; Walter Coats reports. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1963 Teeth A nuisance has to be very great be fore a property owner will go to all the trouble and cost of filing an expensive civil suit to see the dog owner fined $10. The legislature is now examining bills in both houses to change that law, so a person whose dog is running loose can be chargpd with a misdemeanor. The dog control officer himself could file the charge. This is the sensible approach. It's not only that dogs . running loose can be a nuisance, but lack of control by owners can be costly to sheepmen. In one of the worst raids last year, three police dogs killed 91 head of sheep in a period of two days. The owners of these dogs wore never found. Recognizing the big economic loss such a raid causes, the county pays live stock damages amounting to $7 each for ewes and lambs over fit) pounds and 5 for ewes under 50 pounds. This is about half the value of the livestock, but it still amounted to a cost to the county of $2, 131 last year. v . Dog control officer Bob Hall estiinates this much again was paid out by . dog. owners whose dogs had killed still other sheep. Thus, dogs on the loose were respon sible for more than $6,000 in economic waste involving livestock alone. True, dogs can't be completely con trolled, but with a stronger law to en force responsibility, it's logical to as sume dog owners would do more to keep their dogs at home. ! '. '. The Almanac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, May 8, the 128th of 1903 with 237 to fol low. The moon is full. The morning stars are Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. The evening star Is Mars. Those born on this date include former President Harry S. Tru man, in 1884. On this day in history: In 1511. Hernando De Soto and a company of Spanish explorers discovered the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn. In 1042, Vice-President Henry A.Wallace coined a new phrase when he said: "The century on which we are , entering can be and. must be the century of the common man." . In 1!M5, President Truman an nounced the end of the war in Europe on "V-E" day. In 1058,. former vice president Richard M... Nixon, touring South America at the time, was spat upon by leftist students at Lima, Peru. . A thought for the day Ameri can author Nathaniel Hawthorne said: "Mountains are earth's un-i decaying monuments." Riddle High Musical Slated This Week The Riddle High School Chorus of 44 student s w ill present, a music al entitled "The Guy From Venus," in two performances set for Thurs day and Friday of this week in the high school auditorium. Show time is 8 p.m. The stage action Is accompanied by a 15-piece dance hand accom paniment, similar to last year's popular presentation, correspond ent Erma Best reports. The major roles of the play are dual cast with a different set of actors and singers carrying the leads each evening. An admission charge will he made with proceeds lo help defray expenses for the proposed trip to the Riddle High School Band to the Portland Jun ior Rose Festival Parade on June 14, Jack Mahoney is music director for the Riddle schools. The CI Bill added 460.000 engin eers to the nation's work force, the Veterans Administration says. Seventeen years after VJ Dav there are 15.115.000 World War II veterans. Their average age Is 44, says Ihe Veterans Administration. 3n 2)ayJ Tolitii Itom tho Wal 40 YEARS AGO May , 1923 The drive to raise $6,000 for the pubhr library building starts tomor row and every individual in the city is akrd to do everything he can to help raise the funds for the new building The 23rd annual convention of the Oregon Federation of Women's t ilths will lie held in .Med ford. May ; 21 -24 it was annulment Unlaw IS YEARS AGO May I. 1938 Petitions will be placed in circu ! lation throiKlioul Douglas county in the near future asking the stale hulnietceiric commission for a pub-! lie utility district survey, it was decided at a meeting of representa tives of 28 communities meeting ; here last night. i t By ROBERT C. RUARK Lord knows enough has been written about our criminal iutvii tude in handling the Cuban situa tion, from earliest feeble tum blings until tomorrow's newest baleful bulletin. But the time, I think, has come, to quit. playing political pool with it. Certainly, the time has come to quit making side-bar deals, under- the-table barters, with the furry frenetic who runs the country. The lime has come to quit buying bod ies back and forlh with money and drugs and suggested tractors. The time has come lo tell James Donovan to find another line of work; the lime has come to tell Bobby Kennedy to keep Ins mouth shut and to quit hustling dough from admirers to make deals with. Tim Hat Com The time has certainly come to cease and desist from allowing Miro Cardona, the (' disenchanted Castroite, from making loud state ments about' Jack Kennedy prom ising him an invasion with six di visions of troops. Absolutely the time has come for the popularity loving President to stop shooting off his mouth about recapturing Cuba for the Cubans unless he in tends to send in a mess of Ma rines and planes and really knock off the joint. And the time, most assuredly. has come for Americans to stop putting themselves in positions where bribery and barter must be Implemented in order to buy them loose from Castro's jails. Amer ica should not really be in the and kidnaping business, shaking down the drugstores for money and products to leave in hollow trees in order to ransom the freedom of Ihe kidnaped. Lin Neoded One nf the great lines to enmc out of World War Two was: "You can't do business with Hitler." You damned well can't do business with Castro and the Russians, who seem varyingly to control or not control Castro. Somewhere y o u have to draw a line. Nobody ever really won. even in the sordid racket of diplomacy, by trying to conduct trade on the level of the gangster. Eventually you have either lo admit the swindle or call in (he cops. Cuba has been poison for Amer ica since we tacitly hacked Castro against the cynical old perverter of right, Batista. Batista's perver, sion of right was calculated along the lines of. the local crook who steals, bribes, occasionally mur ders a rival, but never really does anything rough enough against the syndicate to start a gang war or attract the attention of the FBI. Under the former sergeant Cuba was surface-prosperous. Havana was a jewel of a city; Varadero was a fine place to visit; the gnu jiro who cut cane perchance went barefoot, but shoes were not en Cjone dtj of TK NawiRaiaw Closing of the I lupous Valley to pheasant hunting, providing simi l lar action is taken in the Willam-1 elte Valley, was urged by the, sportsmen at the regular meeting; of the Roseburg Rod and (,un Club ; last night. A shortage of birds was the rrason for the action. I 10 YEARS AGO j May I, 1953 Annexation of Hucrest and West Roseburg areas in the City of Rose- j burg was favored by voters at a' special election. The vote in West' Roseburg was 148 !.;. and in llu cicsl. 29 17 Cosmo i;ilo of Sweet Home was low bidder on cstnstructinn of road -and bridges over a I2'j mile log ging access route into the Smith, River area. His hid was $:48,702. ! Time To Desist In Cuban Action tirely ne.ces.sary anyhow, and at least he had a suckling pig, the lechon, to add lo his basic black beans On feast days. Vice, tour ism, gambling, construction, rum, night clubs, fishing, mining, TV, theaters, radio, sugar and sun shine ail flourished. Nothing L.ft Of the lot, about the only thing left is sunshine to recommend the country. The output of murder has certainly increased; there is a housing shortage in the prisons, and certainly there is a heavy in crease in Russians, Chinese, Czechs, secret police, unpaid in formers, paid informers, and un-paid-for time on TV to allow Fidel an opportunity to conduct his us ual five-hour fireside chats. We have crumbed up Ihe Cuba deal from the beginning of recog nition of l'ldeL'when he was an outlaw' ghihg' against the limit ed sins of old Batista. We meas ured emigres, from the Batista regime, and from all the other old cynical regimes of Machado, Grau, and the rest; in terms of squads. Now,, as the Spanish joke has it, From Salem: The Senate passed and sent to the governor a bill banning lie de tector tests as a condition of em ployment. ?????? Il'c nrnViohlv incl 11 Wftll If Vrtll have an employe whose word you ran I trust wnnnui me am oi a lie detector, you'd better fire the guy, anyway. From San Francisco: The cost of living in San Fran cisco rose to a new all-time high in March 108.4 per cent of 1957-59 prices sharply exceeding the nationwide rise to 108.2, the U.S. Department of Labor reported yes terday. The department's consumer price index for the San Francisco area was 0.6 per cent higher than in December, 1962, 1 per cent above March, 1!H2, and 19.1 per cent higher than a decade ago. The Los Angeles index last month stood at 107.7 per cent of the 1957-59 lev el. Question: Is it all due to the high cost of living Or do von reckon Ihe high cost of LIVING IT VP might be partly responsible? From Chicago: The claim of some rheumatics that their aching joints can "feel" an approaching storm received sci entific verification recently. Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander, a distin guished rheumatologist who has pioneered various types of physi cal and drug therapy for Ihe dis ease, reports he has produced the "weather effect" in arthritis suf ferers living in a controlled cli mate chamber sealed off from nor mal outside influences. His experiments showed that the patients suffered a significant wor sening of symptoms when there was a combination of rising humid ity and failing barometric pres sure. These are the factors, he adds, that prevail in nature before anv rainstorm. So The next time votir rheumatic knee aches and ou say it's suing to rain, don I let anybody laugh at vou Your knee knows what il's talk, ing. about. let's be serious for a moment. Along with the lightener uppers, there is this serious and significant - In The Day's News - By FRANK JENKINS we have made Cuba the biggest country in the world, because: "The capital is in Havana, the gov ernment is in Moscow, and all the people are in Miami." Ricord Not Good I don't know what the Kennedy boys have in mind about Cuba, but it can't be very capable or even feasible, judging from the record. So far nothing the government has done had made any sort of sense, with the possible exception of the bluff Kennedy pulled against Ihe Russians last fall, a gutsy bit of business which risked a nuclear war to make a point which never should have been allowed to sharp en itself in the first place. But one thing 1 do know: The time has come to quit operating on a conversational basis with Cuba. The time has come for Mr. Donovan, the great negotiator, lo stay home. And the time has cer tainly come for Washington to tell the public what it has on its mind in reference to Cuba, for up to now all the public has generally been told has been a pack of lies. (Copyright, 1963 by Uniltd Faaturt Synd., Inc.) item in the news this morning: Nearly 4.000 employees of Kaiser Steel Corporation will get a bonus of about $80 a man, or some 45 cents an hour, in the first monthly cost savings distribution under Kai ser's new labor plan which in volves automation. The plan gives to workers each month about a third of the cost savings realized over Kaiser's 1901 cost level. It guarantees CONTIN UED JOBS, despite automation, which was extensively employed in the Kaiser operation during the month. Kaiser announces that during .March, the first full month of effective operation of the new plan, cost savings amounted to S2.000 and the workers' share of the saving will be $312,000 for 3.930 eligible employees. This is the interesting point of the story: Automation can be made profit able for both employers and em ployees. If it can he made to result in LOWER PRICES, it will be prof itable for CONSUMERS also. Attendance Good ! At Riddle Event j A capacity crowd of over 4i0 : appreciative parents and friends attended the annual Spring Con (cert of the Riddle Elementary 'School music departments last 'week in the elementary school ; auditorium. ' The program featured the 50 piece Cadet Band (seventh and , eighth grades I; the 5:l piece Inter mediate Band (fifth and sixth 'grades); and the Junior High School Chorus. Jack Mahoney is band director and Verna Goodwin ' is choral director and accompan ist, correspondent Erma Best re ports. The program opened with the Na " tional Anthem by the Junior High School Chorus and the Cadet Band. The Intermediate Band played a . group of selections and accomptn- ied a cornet solo by Pat Shea. The chorus gave a medley of service songs. Vocal solos includ ed "Whispering Hope." by Rita 'Deal. "Fairest Lord Jesus'" and i "Silesian Folk Song" by Myrna ; NewTOmb and Teresa Pearson and "Every Time I Feel the Spirit." by John Sorensen The Cadet Band played several pieces and accompanied a bari tone solo by Linwood McFarland. By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (I'Pll-Hard on the heels of the American expedi tion to lit. Everest comes news of another expedition that also was hard on the heels. An intrepid group, of which this correspondent was a member, has just returnee' from the summit of Old Rag Mountain, Va. That craggy, forbidding pinnacle known as "The Roof of Madison County," had previously been con quered only by approximately 325. 275 Americans, give or take a Brownie troop and the Young Re publicans club. Setting forth from Washington, which is the capital of the United Slates, we crossed the wide Po tomac, a river, and drove through a region of thick, virgin suburbs. Roads Were Passable To our delight, the roads were passable. We had been warned lhat they might be clogged with native vehicles. Eventually we came to Ihe foot hills of the Blue Ridge chain and established a base camp, where we took on extra supplies of ginger ale and cheese crackers. By unanimous agreement, the post of group leader was assigned to Myron Claser. a travel writer who was instrumental in organiz ing the expedition. Glaser was chosen mainly be cause he has a pair nf shoes with leather laces. Nothing inspires confidence like leather shoelaces. Having assured ourselves that Reader Decent Literature Group To The Editor: It is with considerable interest that I read of the censorship com mittee being formed in Roseburg and, in particular, Ihe standards set up to judge literature by. This group will have the easiest judg ing choice in the world it will eliminate every piece of writing there is, including the newspaper. Forever I suppose there will al ways be a group of people brilliant enough in mind to decide what I shall read. Letters such as this will not do much in rebuttal I know and, coward that 1 am, I don't propose to resist them. For it seems when such human beings once decide that this story, or this book, or this magazine is going to corrupt my morals there just simplyis no turning back. However, for the record, 1 want lo be put down in protest and give fair warning that I shall resist1 their effort with wholehearted un-j cooperation. And, even if there was I a case for the side of censorship. the standards to judge by. as set by 1 this committee, are far more cxten-1 sive than a stern dictatorship would : use. Who in the world would assume to be so holy, so almighty, so wise, so supreme in assurance that I, and I all of us, could not safely read any newspaper because the news-i paper would violate nearly, all of these standards. For example, in tonight's paper: 1 "Alabama Police Hold March- j crs." In the story that follows the! 5. vnu m i v t?l'&n'Wf iic- Ljmmp. Woman makes the home.. .we make the loan A woman'a touch makes a home, but good financing makes it a happier home to own. Want to buy or build this year? Let us help with the financing. For a home loan tailored to your needs, come in and ask to see on of our home loan specialists. UMPQUA JACKSON & OAK MEMBER OF THE S W'INGSi AND I CHN EOtSOATION. INC," SPONSOR. OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT I.N READER'S DIGEST. everything was in order, w be gan our ascent, our eyes fixed on the distant summit. After running imo a couple of trees, we took our eyes off the ! summit and began to watch where we were going. Among mountain climbers, there is a closeness and camaraderie lhat sort of brings a lump to your throat, particularly when you have 1 been eating cheese crackers. All Share Honor It would be a pity if the fra ternal spirit that bound our group and made it possible for us to achieve our goal were shattered i by rival claims over who beat i whom to the summit, j It really doesn't matter which j of us was approximately the 325. i L'TCtli American to conquer Old i Hag. The honor belongs equally ! to all of us. Someone had to be content with being approximately the 325,277th, the 325,278lh, etc. There wasn't room up there for everybody at the same time. Besides that, crowds make me nervous. Rather than bicker over indi vidual credit. I propose to end my account of the expedition on a philosophic note. Why should a man of sedentary habits lame himself with blistered heels, stiff joints and sore mus cles climbing a mountain? My wife asked me that question and I responded with the tradi tional reply. "Because," 1 said, "I'm stupid." Opinions Draws Lash From Reader news reveals disrespect for the law Xegroes challenging police to arrest them; racial discrimina tion; Negroes describing in detail how to beat southern law. All this really happened. It was not in a make-believe story. Therefore, the truth would be more damaging than fiction. My kids now know lhat people really do these things and not just that some people think you should do this. This might have a terrible influence on them. "Out of reason." you say! Quite the contrary! A self-appointed group, with th powerful authority of deciding pub lic manners and morals, eventual ly comes to this. Just last year a P.T.A., or soma such brilliant group, attempted to get the Tarzan books out of a school library in California. It seems lhat Tarzan and Jane weren't married by a Justice of the Peace in Burbank. Examples such as this could be recited furcver but. of course, our "protectors" wouldn't be so silly. That bunch down there didn't sup pose they would be either. O.K., go ahead and censor away I There might he a magazine in the supermarket there that will make one of your kids go out and rob a bank. If so, maybe I can smiling ly give up niv pleasure of reading it. Mclvin Bovce X. Myrtle Rt. Myrtle Creek, Ore. -'' i .r. ROSEBURG
