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i i 3tews-ltoMew or la f fa "But You Promised!" The Editor's Corner By Charles V, Slanton 4 The .News-Review, Rote burg, Ore. BPA Has The Bonneville Power Administration nniy be the center of pro and anti-public power arguments for many years to come, but no one can deny the big Co lumbia River power project ban had its impact on Oregon economy. This year, the BPA is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It was on Aug. 29, 19IS7 that; President Franklin D. Roosevelt sinned the Bonneville Project Act. Since then, the project has prowil to surpass any other single river basin in the world in hydroelectric development. BPA's utility operation, serving an area of 220,000 square miles, reaches into Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana and a corner of Neva da. From its power capacity, it has sold U63 billion kilowatt - hours of power, enough to meet the current power re quirements of the entire United States for more than six months. It feeds pow er to publicly owned utilities (1,'5.1 per cent) privately-owned utilities (10.3 per cent) aluminum industries (30.1 per cent) and federal agencies and other indus tries (15.7 per cent). Power . sales to these sources for fiscal 1952 amounted to ?b'9 million for 29.2 billion kilowatt-hours. The industries served by BPA today represent a gross investment of nearly $400 million and pay annual state and local taxes ranging from $5 million to $7 million. Since its inception 25 years ago, BPA has returned more than $800 million to the U.S. Treasury, and was $20 million ahead of its scheduled payout. This is on an investment of ,$2.l bil lion in the total U.S. Columbia River Opinions From We Don Honor Diety As We Should, Claim Tuesday evening, while listening to Radio Station KQEN and its panel of high, school students, I felt someone should sound an alarm as I heard thoso precious young high school girls wrestling with the knot ty problems with which our nation is confronted. Somcona should try to awaken our people to the truth. Yet, I wonder if wo will listen to truth. I wonder if wo really want truth. While I was yet a child I remem ber hearing the old saying: "Give the calf enough rope and he will hang himself." Likewise, give a man enough power and he will destroy himself. Man now has this power in his hands. God has not left us in the dark concerning these things. The Bi ble, which is God's word, plainly tells us what will come to pass. The Uible, itself, claims to be the word of God. Wo're told in Tim. II 3:10: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profit able for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction In right eousness." While Russia tries to deny there is a God, and America claims to be a Christian nation, I am afraid wo must admit that we are a sin ful, pleasure-loving people. We aro not honoring God the way we should. Let's lake a look at our record! Broken homes, divorces, alcohol ism, juvenile delinquency, ate. Fifteen million smutty sex maga zines printed every month to be For DEAR ABBY: My wife has a parakeet and it's driving me nuts. It pecks holes in the plaster, peels paint off the walls and Hies over the table when we are eating. I mippo.se it's my fault because I'm the one who bought it for her. But, Abby. I bought a cage to go with it. and it's never In the cage. My wife says a bird is SCPPOSl'.D to be free to tly all over or It will get loony. I've seen plenty of para keets In rages and they didn't look loony to me. In fact, 1 think Ol IIS is loony. Advice Is needed, UNO OF HOPE DEAR END: You're parakeet, pecked! All birds (of the house pet variety) should be In cages. It's unsanitary to let them tly all over the house. K your wife doesn't believe it, refer her to an ornitho logist. ".DEAR AUHY: My son, as a lav- gives his neighbor a free ride to work every morning. He doesn't; want any money, and wouldn't ac cept any were it offered, but his grie Is this: He is kept waiting oulside her house every morning from five to ten minutes, making him late to work. He has given this lady several hints hut they don't seem to sink in. Have you any suggestions? IRATE MOTHER DEAR MOTHER: Yes. Your son should quit hinting end lav It on the line. The free-ride lady should ' Had Mighty Economic Impact read by one-third of the American people. There are more barmaids in the U.S. than college girls. Sev en out of eight children quit church or Sunday school before they are 15 years of ago. There are three saloons for every school. There are two liquor stores for every church. So the list growsj The Bible says: "Righteousness exaltcth a nation, but sin is a re proach to any people." Unless America repents and turns to God (and the Church needs to repent of her coldness and complacency, her worldliness and waywardness) God may allow com munism to conquer proud America and Britain. Only a true and sincere repent ence on our part, and a real turn ing back to God can cancel God's judgment. Can we not see the hand writing on the Willi? But I also must mention a bright er side. God has provided a "bomb shel ter" for his people to alt who will repent and believe the gospel and turn from their wicked ways. This Is a Holy God to whom we must givo account. Time is running out. Let us pre pare to meet God. Grace D. McKnight 1343 NE Commercial Ave. Roseburg, Ore, COP CALLS COPS LONDON (UI'H - A policeman recently called the cops when his wife, Amanda, took after him with a knife. Williams got a divorce on grounds of cruelty. The Birds! By ABIGAIL VANBIJREN bo told that If she Is not OUT IN FRONT when her "ride" arrives I she will have to get to work some,""1 rvi ecung -nenness other way. What do you want to ! ? Personality 'be ratings were bet she doesn't miss more than one 1 '' j The verdict of the psychiatrists? DI'.AR AHBY: Since 1 enlisted irei lli're It is. in nutshell: the Navv two years ago 1 have i " ,hesl, uplos epitomize what had five girl friends. F.verv tiniei'y "w hc relatively common 1 go home on leave I have' to dig adaptation of the population at up another girl and try to ,ik i we wish to express our mix her into getting married She'll sav ''"''''"Ks about this adjustment, ves before I go. and Hear John ( "Such a population would pro two months later. I am 21 vears ! '""'V statnlity or a firm hackbone old. stand six feet three, weigh 2001"', J f, fTl'cJu V' pounds, have blue eves ami 'Ink mn t' " '' brown curly hair. I measure MUNDANh AM) DULL :i2-:iB. Why do so many girls give . me up for someone else'1 j r" T T (I'SS JOHN KINO) Maybe so. DEAR T. T.i ' You're youngj ,his ?'l",,'l,,!ly fi,shil,n! Sailor. You will m..t m.,w more. I scribe would like to go on record foolish, fickle girls. So far you've only met five CONFIDENTIAL TO LYNNE: when he offered you the fin, you should have known there was some thing "fishy" about him. For Abhy's booklet. "How To Havt A Lovclv Weddi. ." send 50c i to Abby, Box 3:W5, Beverly Hills, Calif. , Everynody h? t problem.! What's yours? For a personal re-j plv, write to Abby, Box 3385, Bev-! erly Hills, Calif. Enclose a stamp-i td, jelf-addressed envelope, j MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963 System. Of this total, $1.8 billion is al located to power. Of course, everything isn't coming up roses. At the end of the annual operating year in 1902. operating deficits stood at $17,700,000. The BPA is working on this through payout schedule revisions, in creased sales in the region served and , through a California intertie. A rate in crease might even be in line. Administrator Charles Luce says on the subject: "We do not believe that as a matter of policy a federal power sys tem should operate in the red, and we are dedicated to taking such steps in 1963 as are necessary to correct this situa tion. The Bonneville dam and other dams in the system reach far down into south ern Oregon to help boost industry. The latest project is a new transmission line to the Ueedsport area to serve the big new industries coming in there. They also furnish electricity to much of the north ern part of the county through Douglas Electric Cooperative and to the Hanna nickel mine and smelter. The BPA estimates that 99 per cent of the Pacific Northwest's farms are now electrified. It estimates typical residen tial and farm families in Oregon and Washington today use about 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year and have an average investment of about $2,000 in electrical appliances. The Bonneville system may be con troversial, but its effect on the life and economy of Douglas County and the rest of the Northwest in its first 25 years has been tremendous. Readers Day's News By' Frank Jenkins Question fur today: What kind of person is the nor mal, average American wife? You'll be surprised. She is "astonishingly normal." She is physically attractive. She is emotionally healthy. She is a good mother. She is a CONTENT ED wife. But Oil, she's DULL! Who says so? Well, it isn't just back yard gos sip, or cocktail chit-chat. It is a carefully considered profile of the males, as reported at a meeting in St. Louis of the American Psychi atric association. How did the study that resulted In this conclusion get started? It's quite a story. In an attempt to discover the characteristics of "the normal American male," the psychiatric investigators first stud ied SI) men who 13 years ago as ninth graders had obtained nor mal personality scores on tests giv en to almost 200 Minneapolis stu dents. That study attracted so much at tention that Inter Ihe wives of 38 of these men who had married at age 2li were studied. The combined results were made public at St. Louis as a part of the Psychiatric Association's week-long conference. Most of the couples, it was learn ed in the study, were religiously devout and had attained the same levels of education. None had even temporarily separated from a spouse and there was no evidence of critical marital discord in their futures. On test items reflecting "con tentment with lot and life, effective ness and over-all adjustment" both Wlvt's ""soamls rated lugn, here with an opinion to Ihe effect that If ALL our Amertean young people who finish school and get I married and tackle the Mb of j making living and raising fam. j tly would go about it after the I manner of these young people who Uvere studied by Ihe psychiatrists ! we wouldn't need to do much wor- r " IH''" ,nc ,mw ' "l,r cmm lr ' ii I i IT PAYS TO P A I H O N 1 1 F. N E W S R E V t E W ADVERTISERS n "p : 1 1- News Analysis Right To 0k s Often By ROBERT C. RUARK I am not knocking the right of!bod' like ,lle Plaintiff, had indeed man to gain justice by taking his grievances to court, if he can af ford the fees and the lawyer's bite, but it seems to me that there are altogether too many sewages go ing on these days. 1 get the word "sewage" from Aunt Melissy Jackson, lale ' of Soulhporl, N.C., who was a suin' woman from the word go, and who once remarked in my presence, a great many years ago, that "MiMer .Lick itobbins, he got five sewages against me already." Aunt Melissy ran the corps of young women who headed shrimp in the shrimp-house, when she was not in court defending her self or prosecuting the unworthy, She ran the shrimp-headers with a hand of steel and tongue of fire. Melissy would plain snatch you baldheaded for getting out of line. .Melissy was called fierce like a tiger cat. Hut when Melissy entered into a sewage, she generally had some right on her side, as when she once asked: "Who spit at dat gob hot spit in dat chile eye?" and then proceeded to snatch the spitler baldheaded. The snatchee sued, in this ease, but Melissy won on the testimony of the spittee, who THE LIGHTER SIDE: is Youngsters Tell About Statescraft By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UP1) If I told you that a bonk had just been published under the title "How to Run a Country," who would you guess to be Ihe au thor? Leo Diirocher? David Suskind? Liz Taylor? Wrong. This book is a compilation of views on statescraft by a group of Caroline Kennedy's contempo raries. It was put together by Harold Dunn, a schoolteacher, from letters that children have written to members of Congress. nw tft mi n unv ut 1 lir nutnt that when anyone mentions i 'ic 10 itep. 1 nomas .u. ! bright savings b"v children, my Pell - R wash.. seeking the con i inclination' is to run, not walk, to I gressmen's opinion on China. Oil : 11,0 nen-est exit bert added that he had already i 1 hi.i ...in, ih ti.ot 1 ("out ot the mouths of babes oft 1 times comes Pallium." I j Kids More Erudite j But I find that when kids are ; writing to their congressmen they I ! display far more erudition and ! perspicuity than when they are talking to their parents, or Art I.inkletter. ! For instance, no one who has j ever engaged in a sibling rivalry 1 could help hot admire ihe little, girl who wrote to Hep. Paul A. j ; Kino, R-N.Y., asking him to j : "send me the form to disinherit ! sisters." This shows that civilization has made real progress in the last few decades. In my day. e would have asked for rat poison. It also is reassuring to note that tattle telling has become i groat deal more sophisticated than it was when I was a boy. j The kids apparently no longer 1 squeal on each other to parents 1 or teachers. Now they turn each i other in to the Senate internal se curity subcommittee. Informs On Jan i A letter received by Sen, (Thomas J. Dodd, D Conn., of ten -. v.ffn , did declare under oath that some-. spat a gob hot spit right in her eye. I do not so much hold with the recent civil action of a young man suing to get into college, irrespec tive of religion or color, as his reason. He sued, and lost, because his entrance examinations were 7 per cent below the required 85 per cent high-school average. , The caso first went to the State Supernie Court of New York last Stepember, and was upheld, as is popular in most court cases of this nature, these days. But re cently five justices of the Appel late Division of the Surevume Court of Brooklyn reversed the earlier decision. In effect, the appellate boys said that what the litigant ,,eeuuu was i ou .v. nu.cn a lawyer as a tutor. They just said that the iwty nail iiu uinmcAa iiiumimj.viii aiuuiiu wun such ucucaie rnacuin- ;ery as a person's ability to pass a required set of standsards. The., case now goes to the Court of Appeals in Albany. i I see also that an admitted homo sexual has filed a suit against the Labor Department, in which he doth declare that homosexuality is not sufficient grounds for the i government's failure to rehire that group reads as follows: "...Jan keeps her fingers crossed when she sings Ihe Star Spangled Banner." A child's world in respect to sex likewise has changed consid - erably, as witness the letter schoolgirl addressed to the "birth control section" of Congress. The book doesn't say to whom it was delivered, but the text of the missive went like this: "For my class project 1 am to get all the information I can about birth control. Can you help me or am 1 too expectant?" A juvenile constituent named formed his own opinion so don't give any facts. If Gilbert continues (0 refuse to he inlluenred bv facts, he probablv will be elected to Con-'' gross himself some day. Although their letters are char. acteristic of the modern genera - tion. the book makes clear that there is one area in which kids haven't changed hit. They still can't spell worth a dime fJbc3lcu)s-ncuicu US S P V.i'rl RotftHJ'tl Orwon Crttfrtd m f,ufxj ci.m rnjmejr Vdy 7, .l t poi otiKC t Rosfburfl. Ort gon. vndtr (Kt of rUrt 1, '173. NEWS-RPVIEW PUBLISHING CO J, V Brnn?f Publisher ffirmSrr al Ihe Uflirco Pres International. NEA Service. Alkju Bureau or CirruleNon the Oreuor, NfA-iosoer P-.ioiir-en A.oc-et.ei National A3ve't.v:o Orre'enttlve I Nrwcsper Adve'tlint Sf'v ce Co . Rusi iuiiding. Sa 1 "rancLco C!" SuOSCPIPTION RATES Ce.r er eno Poiepura p O Bate 1 rrKV-tft, It S: nwnths. SIB SCl 1 year, SSI (W Bv W Ir. Oregon; 1 month. $1 7S; 3 montni. f4 yj; trwtfts. Ifl CC I -er 1IC oytv.re of Orears. 1 inontn, St 3 n-onthr. swi; I montsj, 110 5C; I year tJi Justice Overdone him,- after he had voluntarily quit the service. The middle gentleman in question, of i D"Klas County k sweep years, had voluntarily quit I P !"k J," " me service, wnicn ueait wun ner- ...... ... c.,l nf,. i . u . i-, sonnel work, after the Labor Do- paiinient Had accused him of con - tinning homosexual activities. He had passed examinations after his resignation, and had asked the gov ernment to rehire him, which the poor, old, tired government didn't, having had some experience with homosexuality in positions of hir ing and firing. (Note: During the late unpleas antness, a very brave Marine cap tain I knew, temporarily person nel officer of the Navy base in Al- jgiers, La., went a long time to jai'.j i r,. J.iiinl,' i., , .,:i ,.' i basis of homosexual interest. If you auce,e( , his ,emands got a leave. If you didn't vou didn't get home to see Mom and , e kid SiStOI'J. According to the gentleman who ......... 11 iu ,11 Kiiiii. 111 an wilU is1 bringing his sewage against (he government, he does not refute the homosexuality charge, but states flatly that "his sex life, like his his religion, is a private affair, and has no bearing on the case." The Civil Service Commission has said that the gentleman is not eligible for a job as personnel manager because of his immoral conduct. The instigator of the suit says that homosexuality is not immoral in nature, and the finding is arbi trary and capricious. I really do not know how all j these suits will come out, and i couldn't care less, as I remember a fraternity brother of mine who I once tried to beat a draft-dodging rap 011 toe grounds Dial uccause h.0...a', l,n.mosc.xl:al llc, culdn.M .-,1.1ml nit: ii-iiiiHuuun 01 going 10 war with so many handsome fel- And 1 i ,.,,i,,. ,1,,, Soulhport. N.C., Aunt Melissy Jackson got to he something of a i bore with all her sewages. At the . moment, the boredom has not les- sened with undue recourse to the 1 courts. (Copyright, 19U by Unilrt Feature Synd., Inc.) Local News c, , . St. Francis Xavier Altar Society is haying a card party Saturday .!! 18, t P-ni. t the rutherlin Community budding . The public is invited. There will be door and taoie pi izes. Mr. and Mrs. J. w. r, Atrs. Charles Johnson and Mis. (;l''', Baker, all of Willows. Calif.: :Ml- ami ,irs. i-.mnmt nutter of : Yakima. Wash.: Mr. and Mrs. Joe McCultough of Long Beach, Calif., Mr. Klleii Bus of Holla. Kans. Mrs. Audrey Edwards. Appleton I (-'i,v' lo-: Jlrs Russell Wright, 1 1''1"'0. Calif. : Mrs. Larry Williams, V.1".'": 1 .:"r Jlrs- i-iuvii i.raviorn, tiugoion, Nans.; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edwards. Ren ton. Wash.; and Mr. and Mrs. El don Zane of Med ford were here recently to attend the funeral of Mrs. Maude Baker Tliev were guests at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sade. Mr. and Mrs. Randall Baumgardner. Mrs Iris Nicholson. Marion Zane. Lolvd Butler and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rasmusscn. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTKCTH, plrnwinl nlk.llllif tmoti-ncuii pottrfr, iiou. twth mart ftrmlT- To at nd tlk in more 1KETH on your pit.. No (pnrr, )r.ooV. PR" Vn?r OT fwltnt; Chtvk )iU!f txVr' idetiMsr orf;. (' PaSTKKIH tt .uiy drug coumei County Loses Good Friend With 'Doc' Wellman's Death A miKhty good friend has been lost by the News- Review. The sudden death of Glen (Doc) Wellman has removed a frequent contributor to pur Reader Opinions column; cms who has served both the newspaper and the county's thou sands of bowlers, one who, in a far more important role, contributed in a most vigorous way to the advancement of Douglas County as a poultry center. We can be thankful "Doc" went quickly, instead of suf fering a lingering, painful death. He had filled his "three score years and ten" with a lot o:f living. And the active years of his life were given in service to others. In my esti mation there is no other higher standard for measuring success. Wellman became known as "Doc" many years ago when he entered the employ of the Doug las County Flour and Feed Co., operated for so many years by the Bashford family. Originally one of Douglas Coun ty's pioneer flour milling opera tions, this concern branched out into feeds as the raising of poultry became an infant industry. Wellman was called in as a spe cialist in poultry diseases and as an expert in poultry feeds. Not only did he devote himself to the welfare of the companv but, a natural promoter, he gave most energetic and able service to ad vancing the poultry industry. Show Organized In company with several of the early day turkey raisers, he was one of the principal figures in the start of the turkev raising, indus try in Douglas County. He heloed organize the original Northwestern I county. Turkev Show held for manv years I Ever impatient of extravagance, in Oakland and later moved to i inefficiency, hypocrisy, Wellman Hoseburg. It was in large measure frequently contributed to Reader through his persistent "pounding" ! Opinions in The News-Review. Al that a place finally was created j though he might have been classi bv the National Poultry Associa- tied as a conservative Republican, tion for the broaubreasted turkev. he never, failed to criticize his own ! for which Douglas County excelled. I After the classification was estab - ! lished for the broadbreastcd tur- 'n;iiHii;n iiiiKt?v Miuwa. " . i i uoc always nil iies&fu uiu as . - u (r.K,'tpt, 1PWSDaPrma. 1 " 1.,rmu, ifrci,i i writing for publication. was a good friend of this newspa- One of the most interesting and I per and was loved by its personnel, best read advertising features ever i lie will, indeed, be sorely missed produced in Douglas County was j by those of us who knew him well the weeklv "Feed Bag," a four-1 and who so appreciated his vigor-column-by-10-inch "front page" cd-1 ous expressions of opinion. 9n 2)aJ Token from the tiles 40 YEARS AGO May 13, 1923 Two expert dip-netters. cxperi - enced in the task of handling salm - , . . , , ,- ,1 0 ?',.d ''"'I1' hvc been s ationcd : at Winchester by the State fish, I Commission through the efforts of, ! ,he Koseburg Rod and Gun club.j j the lioseburg Rod and Gun club. 10e.se men win mi sumiuu i-. , along tne original Oregon and uaii the dam at Winchester, or else will f0i-iiiu railroad line and Coos Bav ronstruct a chute through which Wagon Road in Western Oregon the salmon may reach water above; t0 j;eCp tne iumi,0r mills operating the dam. . in the region during the next two The Roseburg Rod and Gun Club ,. jme months. The Almanac By United Press International Today Monday, May l.i, tne . 133rd day of i3 with 232 to fii(,.., The' moon approaching its .,,.(.,,. j .,.he1 m0",. ing stars are Venus. : JuFiloi- and Saturn. 1 The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: ; In 1G07, the tirst colonists to establish a permanent English , settlement in the new world start- j ed to build their fortress com- j in unity near the James River, in ! Virginia, which later became 1 Jamestown. In 18-lti, Congress declared that ! a stale of war existed between the United States and .Mexico. 1 In 1!M0, Queen Wilhelmina, 1 C.mvn Princess Juliana, and key I figures of the Dutch government! : amvcl in England alter fleeing f,.,n ,nt. Nazl invaders of the1 Ncult,rt;ims. . Jm 19 , - ,,rim(, Mijstel. Winston 1 Churchill said in a victory address ' to the British Empire that Britain would lhl'ow 1"'1' c'-tire military "t-ii" uuuni oiuu-s m the war against Japan. A thought for the day English author John Morloy said: "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." jMii PI WOOD and DUMP or BLOWER SERVICE 2" Heavy Planer Ends Peeler Cote 1" Planer Ends Oak 2x4 Planer Ends Dry Slob SPRING RATES ON 2" PLANER ENDS AND PEELER CORE APRIL-- MAY --JUNE ONLY! ROSEBURG . OS 9-8741 ited every Monday by Wellman. His miniature newspaper appear ed regularly in The News-Review. It carried information concerning care and treatment of poultry, cur rent news of the industry, some editorial comment, occasionally a short anecdote, and a brief "com mercial." Readers might miss the rest of the newspaper, but few people ever missed the "Feed Bag," even though not interested in raising poultry. Couldn't Quit Following retirement Wellman couldn't quit entirely. He was interested in bowling. He became secretary of the Doug las County Bowling Association. As such he edited "Pocket Splits," a weekly sports page feature by The News-Review dealing with a re- ! port on bowling activities in the I party when he felt the party to ' be wrong. He was a firm advo- cate of a cigarette tax, not so much because of the revenue it might raise but because he felt cigarettes are productive of cancer and a tux :,iii hi ,.o,i,. innito nn ...i. .....w ..0..v I sumption. ! "line" was a erand nerson. He Cjone $i of The Newi-Review held its annual salmon bake with I entertainment provided by the ! Douglas County Concert band, j 25 YEARS AGO May 13, 1938 The Interior Denarlinenl an il nouneed vesterflav it wniilrl sell 1 20.3 million board feet of timber Bombed twice in 19 hours, Bar- celona. Spain, counted 60 dead and 150 wounded as the cost ot new insurgent air attacks. 10 YEARS AGO May 13, 1953 Construction will start in August on a new J. C. Penney store for Roseburg, it was announced to day. For the second time in a" week, a liery logging truck crash claim ed the life of the driver. A man identified as Austin Willis, 44, Can yonvillc. burned to dcatli in the cab of his loaded truck about one mile north of Myrtle Creek on Highway 9.1. HARRIS f'lumbing & Heating, Co. 1501 S.E. Stephens Phono OR 3-8173 SAWDUST LUMBER CO or OR 3 5508 f-S IN YOUR I f KITCHEN Fjr Only faucet , Cartridge! I