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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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ROSEBURG