The'
Editor's Corner
3y Charles V. Stanton
PI., . f) n
More Than One Way to Go to the Dogs
4 Th Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore.
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1963
Youth Programs Need Community Support
The recent necessary cutback in the
summer Pee Wee baseball program in
Roseburfr helps bring into sharp focus a
subject which deserves our serious con
sideration an adequately financed,
lompetcntly supervised summer recrea
tion program for young people.
A belief that such a program is not
Ihe responsibility of the school district
specially in a limited form was, ap
parently, one of the primary reasons that
the board of education of District 4 de
fined to appropriate more than $4,000 for
the Pee Wee program for 1963. The think
ing of the board and the budget com
mittee in this matter, is sound. The
responsibility rests with the entire com
munity and financing is one of the pri
mary problems with a recreation pro
gram. The money can be raised in one of two
ways, or through a combination. Tax
money can be used for the program or
funds can be obtained by voluntary type
fund raising ventures. This year's Pee
Wee program will be financed by a com
bination of both.
An adequate program, however, should
include a variety of activities for both
boys and girls with participation avail
able in several different categories.
Many people, of course, will maintain
that such a program is unnecessary -
that it would cost too much money and
the kids could just as well be left to their
own devices. "After all," many adults
will say, "nobody provided us with fancy
playgrounds, athletic equipment and
swimming pools when we were kids."
This argument would hold water if
conditions were the same as they were
25 years, or more, ago but they aren't.
For one thing many youngsters have lit
tle or no home supervision these days.
Many mothers are working five or six
days a week and the youngsters, in
many cases, find time heavy on their
hands.
The vacant fields most of us knew as
young people are no longer available for
pick-up baseball games. The clear, cool
streams where we often swam are some
imcs now polluted or stagnant often
cluttered with broken bottles and tin cans,
making swimming in the "old swimmin'
hole" either dangerous or impossible to
enjoy.
Then too, the "town team" often had
broken baseball bats and slightly beat-up
balls which were passed on to the kids.
This supply of equipment hnd disappear
ed with organized adult baseball in most
areas.
No one can logically argue with the
i-alue of a swimming program for young,
people. In addition to being one of the
finest exercises in which one can engage
in this physically-underdeveloped nation,
it is of inestimable value as life saving
protection especially in light of the
growing interest in boating and other wa
ter sports.
Handicraft, archery, tennis, golf the
list is almost endless. All of these fields,
and most of the others, are worthwhile.
With adults having much more leisure
time, it would be beneficial to have train
ing in ways to enjoy it and the time for
such training is in the early years.
The cost of such a program would not
be great. Probably a program for this
area should be spread over the area of
the school district so all of the young
sters in the community would have a.n
equal opportunity to participate.
In fhe newspaper business we like to
say "Advertising is not an expanse it
is an investment." The same premise
:ould apply to a summer recreation pro
gram. Now is the time for the formation of
an organization of some kind to take steps
necessary to determine if the community
will support some such program for 19C4
and subsequent years.
- In The Day's
News
By FRANK JENKINS
Lel'i llk todav about an English-1 "to Hot In touch with fellow Esper
man who thinks there ought to lie. antists Is to look in the phone book
WOULD language. Ills numo Is
William L. Siniiikins. and he lives
In Berkshire County. In England
He is a rotlrcd banker, and back
in 1S50 he decided to roam the
world.
lie ban visited 40 different conn
tries since then and has had many
interesting experiences ana nas
met many Interesting people. And,
he says, he has enjoyed every
minute of the time.
adds
"There is one complaint. Trot
ting around over the world, one
finds so many people ono can't
talk to. Why can't we adopt a UNI
VERSAL language like ESPERAN
TO, so that we could all ennversc
together wherever wo travel?"
Mr. Simpkins himself Is an Es
peranlist, and wherever ho goes,
he savs, he spreads the message
of Esperanto and hands out leaf
lets from Esperanto's national
headquarters in Meadvillc, Pa.
"Koreign languages are very dif
ficult to learn lor the average English-speaking
person," he said to a
reporter in Portland the other day.
"Hut not so Esperanto. I learned it
fluently In six months. There's a
Harvard student who learned It In
three weeks."
Esperanto, he told his Portland
Interviewer, is perfectly phonetic
each letter has a single Invar
iable sound. Accent Is always on
the next to last syllable. The gram
mar has but lfi simplo rules, with
no exceptions. Words are self iden
tifving: nouns end In "o," adjec
tives In "a" and adverbs In "e."
lie added that although B0 per
rent of Esperanto's "roots" come
for the local' Esperanto organiza
(Jon, and when you find an Esper
anllst you're happy. But, once you
leave him your language troubles
bob up again."
To identify himself as an Esper
anllst, Mr. Simpkins wears an iden
tifying triangular-shaped lapel pin.
To another Espcrantisi, that
means: "You can talk to me and
1 can talk lo you."
??????
Well, everybody to his own likes.
Mr. Simpkins likes Esperanto. And
it would be wonderfid in these days
if there were a world language.
But
Approximately 270 million people
already speak the English language
according to the best estimates.
More people speak English than
any other language except Chi
nese, which Is too complicated to
become a world language. French
probably comes next after English
possibly as many people in the
world speak French as English.
And there are only a FEW Es
peranllsts. Common sense tells us
we'd belter slick lo English and
French as a means of getting un
derstood over the world.
The Almanac
By United Press International
Today Is Tuesday, May 21. the
141st day of 1003 with 221 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Salurn.
The evening star is Mars.
Those born today are under the
sign of Gemini.
On (his day in history:
In 18.12, what is considered to
be the first Democratic National
Convention got under way at Bal
timore. In 1941, a German aubiiiai-lnn
sank the U.S. merchant ship Hob
in Moor in mid-Atlantic.
In 1948, President Harry S. Tru
man sent a special mcssaee lo
Congress proposing statehood for
Alaska.
In 1962, the American Medical
Association labeled President Ken
nedy's proposed medicare legisla
tion "a cruel hoax."
A thought for the day English
poet Chaucer said: "Boasters by
nature are from truth aloof."
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
te' The
lllf New
Nation Needs A Good
Program For Disposal
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) Every
now and then something pops us 1
what?" Flood inquired. "Can
those birds be put in inventory
and used as support sometime
..1.1 nn..n..nilnn9 Cn lhl
that seems to fit in with my pet 7
. i u ii i'! be reworked? What happens to
eiuiiumii: iiii-ui j , w.iilii ia .aiiu
"disposalism."
Although it gets rather compli
cated around the edges, the basic
I would recommend turning them
over to the Navy. It could use
them to hold the mothballs for
the mothball fleet.
concept of disposalism is quite
i tuple.
It rests on the postulate that
we are Hearing the point where
it will be harder to get rid of
things lhan it is to acquire them.
Already we can see signs of
creeping disposalism. It is, for
example, easier to grow more
grain lhan we can use lhan it
is to dispose of the excess pro
duction.
Atomic power can now be read
ily produced, but getting rid of
the radioactive waste materials
has become a major problem.
And so on. .
Notes House Testimony
A new manifestation of dispos
alism came lo my attention in a
volume of testimony published
over the weekend by the House
defense appropriations subcom
mittee.
As might be expected, it was
Rep. Daniel J. (Silent Dan)
Flood. D-I'a., who laid his finger
on the problem. In fact, he laid
his thumb on it, too.
Flood posed the question of
what Ihe armed forces intend to
do with their old ballistic mis
siles when Ihe models now in use
are made obsolete by more ad
vanced designs.
"Will they be just scrapped or
those birds? We have not done
this yet but what do you think
we might do?"
As you can see, when "Silent
Dan" poses a question he touches
all the bases and takes the scenic
route home.
The Air Force officer who was
in the witness chair replied that
"we just do not have a specific
disposition plan now."
Congressmen Not Disturbed
Although Flood and other sub
committee members did not ap
pear particularly disturbed, this
negative response fairly made
my hair stand on end.
In my opinion, nothing less
than a crash program is needed.
This is not the sort of problem
that can be solved overnight.
After all, there is a limit to
Ihe number of things you can do
with old missiles. They arc a bit
large to convert into salt and
pepper shakers and I doubt there
would be much demand for them
as flower vases.
In times past, they would have
made a dandy item for Fourth
of July picnics, but in many
areas now the use of fireworks
is prohibited.
And, the game laws being what
they arc, you would need a spe
cial permit to use them for duck
hunting.
I'm just thinking off Ihe top of
my head, but as a stopgap plan
Alert News Reader Launched
Effort For Soldiers' Home
Douglas County has a facility pouring more than $3
million each year into local economy because Roseburg had
an alert newspaper reader.
The Veterans Administration is celebrating the 30lh an
niversary of its hospital in i'.csebur.s. But this hospital was
conceived several years earlier. The thought that Rose
burg might become . .v I . suah an important develop
ment resulted in an outstanding exhibition of community
unanimity and iletermiiumL!!.
The newspaper reader was the late V. C. "Bill" Hard
ing, then secretary- of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce was " "; ' : :
uie nouin umpqua ttiver in west
Roseburg.
Harding and others immediately
began a program of securing en-
ing removal of the railroad terrain-! dorsementa from other communi
al pavroll, the principal source of i ''es- Probably because they thought
revenue for the area. 1 "seburg was pursuing a cause to
Harding picked up his newspaper! De. considered lost trom the start.
urgently casting about to find ac
tivities and enterprises to save
Roseburg from becoming a ghost
town. The danger was great follow
on the 12th day of March, 1929. and
observed an item on one of the
back pages that the Veterans Ad
ministration was planning to locate
a branch soldiers home some
where in the Pacific Northwest.
The secretary immediately call
ed in his Board of Directors and
some of the civic leaders. Only elev
en days after the item had appear
ed in the paper. Roseburg had
all of the principal cities in Ore
gon gave their support to the Rose
burg bid.
Portland was a holdout but. in
December, it finally yielded to pres
sure, leaving Roseburg as the sola
applicant.
Charles McNary was U. S. Sen
ator and W..C. Hawley was rep
resentative in Congress from the
First Congressional District, of
which Roseburg, in 1929, was a
comparatively recent First World
War, was located on 47 acres along
3n 2aifd Cjoixe $3i
Taken from the files of The News-Riview
40 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1923
A veteran railroad promoter says Martin as Democratic gubcrnator-
ptans for construction of a railroad ' lal candidate, and Republicans se
from the limber east of Roseburg
to tidewater at Marshfield depends
on completion of primary promo-
lion work. He says he has fi
nancial backing from two rail
roads but needs $20,000 from Rose
.-,... .....I ln,Ttl,., W-Inf eattmrt
hS. V and " introduced
rr I!?. B.h ha,, identical bills specifying that the
J ,r LTtJ S n 5 f i h011'e Planned for the Pacific North
d ers Home. Roseburg was, and f (, d d t f ,ha
still is, veteran minded The state c d
home housing principally a num- A w N f , ad, father of Rep.
bcr of aged veterans of the Civil : w , Norhla(1-vas senm
War, a major population from the c f Q As
Span.sh-Amer.can War. and w.th d , , g , he had a(,vanc.
a vci, in. vcii-i ana i.... ...c uni . , . nvPIU1rsri n imnn he
death of Gov. 1. L. Patterson while
serving in office.
Norblad wired the state's en
dorsement of the Roseburg propos
al and urged passage of the bills
introduced by McNary and Hawley.
Then followed a long period of
activity. Roseburg sent representa
tives back to Washington to appear
before various committees.
Numerous inspections were made
by V.A. officials of the Roseburg
site.
Realizing that Roseburg appear
ed to be on the verge of success,
some of the other cities of Oregon,
especially Eugene, sought to get
inlo the act and wrest the facility
from Roseburg. A particularly
strong contender ' was Vancouver,
Wash.
Bui the House passed Hawley s
tponent. In the state race, Henry
Hess dcleateu incumbent Charles
Opinions From Readers
Substitute Use Might
Lower Price Cf Sugar
To The Editor:
GOP Solon Charged
With Shenanigans
WASHINGTON (I'Pn GOP
Chairman William E. Miller has .and lakes only two hours from
started a new argument w 1 1 h I start to oven-ready. The recipe is
the administration's Cuban policy! free to anyone who wants to bake
the time we lost dad. I was out in 1 little better place for bis having
my yard, watering one of the love- ibcen here "
ly plants that had been sent to his , , !, , , , .
funeral. I had started to shed a i 1 know tllat ,or one- sl,a" ir
fn.u il..nbin ,.r 11..1 -i-.. i to make a lilllp crfintpr oftnri in
Just this week sugar has again iof h,u(, ,.,..,. ..... .,.inc, , ; fulfill n,v nl.tip.-.ii,,n .i i.,no .
ureal in l,rir- lun'l !. . t r, ..
...... ... ... ,vv m
taken
it about lime we began to lake this
prire soaring in hand?
Some time back, when bread
reached a price double its worth, I
started baking my own. 1 have a
sourdough recipe that is delicious
! justify my slay here on earth, for.
A lillle hoy of six years came by. ias my little friend has said, "Dad
He often putters around the yard dies can see you all the time from
with .lie when I'm working there, j Heaven." So. I may no longer neg
lle asked If he could help me. No-1 led little, and big. things as I
tieing my tears he asked me, "Why ! could when we were ony a coupe
are you crying?" I told him I was! of towns apart and Dad coudn't
crying because I had lost my fa-! see what 1 was doing or leaving
ther. I undone. I know I will have lots of
A look of surprise came over bis company.
lccled Charles A. Sprague as his I
opponent in the November general
election.
10 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1953
Western Oregon counties yester-
H,.irt nf -,.v a,,,i.Hn ' ,.,L..h, ...i.. r i,J , fu.r:bill June 11, 1930. The. bill was
Work lias starlcd on the Kohl- timber lands dispute. Clackamas I 'u"r., ui v""fj t. '
liagen apartment house. Mr. Kohl- County, in behalf of the 18 West-
hagen has rejected all bids on the ' ern Oregon counties benefiting
apartment house and will build the I from Ihe O&C formula had filed
structure on a subcontracting plan. suit against the government de
ne estimates he will save $25,000 ' mandmg (hat 472,000 acres of land
by subcontracting jobs. L. W. Mctz
ger has been given contracts for
concrete and framing work.
25 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1938
Republicans nominated Morris
be put under jurisdiction of the De
partment of Interior rather than
the Department of Agriculture.
This would have given the OiC
counties greater returns on timber
sales. U. S. District Court Judge
Bowker and Democrats named Alexander Holtzoff said the govern
Huron Clough in party primaries ment did not consent to be sued, so
yesterday as candidates for Doug- he dismissed the suit.
las county judge. J. Ross llutchin-l It was announced today that the
son was selected by Democrats as i Legion baseball season will start
candidate for county commission
er, and R. D. Thomas of Elkton
was picked as his Republican op-
Sunday in a county league includ
ing Sulherlin. Myrtle Creek, Drain
and Roseburg.
1030. Julv 3 the bill was signed by
President Herbert Hoover.
(To Bt Continued)
I UTTLE LIT
A successful compony president
is one who has a worried look on
all the vice-presidents' faces.
mini I.OIIU, i.im.,,.i - ukinii if President Kennedy I Ins own anil will send a cUnmeil '
easier .o .... . '" --"" . planned lo abandon the U.S. base self-addressed envelope. . '" " '""."' ? " .i. , ' ?' . cloMn ,hat 1
He then gave some examples '...,, . , ... ... en?" he asked, "My daddy did." thank God with all mv heart for a
Bon.n tagon." ie s.ut .o ne " ." . ZSZL,. , J " ,r 1 assured him I was certain this ! wonderful mother and father, ll
oiler, anil added : "cu vi oi .....-.. ...,. , ,,, ,nr. .. e, uie puonc, , , know niy ,,,, j , ,
kanti Britan mondvogaganton. man, also quoted news reports as, should slop buying these high pric-j gratitude.
, l.l I. miint. livinri Ilia! "irdBIl inil lUnnr - a.,1 lltjmie llt.tn .... Illl'll lit- ilflltl. 1 Ull XIIIIIIIII KI1I1U'.
report
ren
anil iiu-n uimsimi-u. iw ,,-1 .. . .....p...... ,,.,k... ,, ,, K - -- ,
, do you want lo meet an hngnsn showed Ihe Kussians were ouiui-1 down. There are now a number of " " wwiiies go in neaven:
n.vlr'" inn a naval base at Ranes on the I ennd ivpilrmr. on iha murk) I they are with you all the time-
Then he gave another example: I northeastern tip of Cuba. He asked They substitute nicelf for sugar. not ,lko whpn hey live at home
"Ml havas 69 jarojn meaning i Kennedy it such reports were
"I am 69 yeara old." He added:
"Esperanto ml satus" 1 like Es
peranto. Maybe that's easier to translate
lhan Latin, or German, or French.
He evidently thinks so. But, look-
true
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D Minn,
replied to Miller's questions by
calling them "simple, mischievous
nonsense, without any foundation
whatsoever." He said the GOP
ing ai me sum in prim, one i-.n . . ,,. Pn(,a(,jng in "monkey
itrip W U IH IV l INK,
"All you have to do," he aM,
Dbc31ciusttcuicw
Sunnie (Wellman) Fov
i25 Merne Drive
Corvallis, Ore.
I have Ihu date written lo sn i nil re too busy lo be with you. i '
Morse and Rep. Duncan concern- Mv tla(l(V can " Ihe time, aa a I a
ing the price of all goods and I ,rcl" vvh,n " lark- Even then he fnOrSC ASKS UUStfir
ciled what happened when Coolidge I know' ''N111 Khvni 1 '" Mommy ) . ..
sat on his hands and let prices run "' " lu"',!, d"llll' tu ' i Qj CXlIO WdMIOnaerS
maav Thin loans worn i.v Thn o we don't cry anymore. Please ,
don't cry and hurt your daddy
Get What could 1 say. I silently prav-
MIAMI (TPli - "Warmonger
ing" Cuban exiles should lie de-
BrMlfMT
Th Ntvrt-Rcvltw Is
UnHto Pri IntrnntloAil,
came Hoover and nun.
Don't let it haoivrn ai'jiln
I business and shenanigans to ; on your congressmen and our rres-! ed that this child s faith would ported from the t'nited States
spread doubt and confusion when ulent ..Make (hem see that we don't never lie jaded in the process', of , Ihe next boat." Sen. Wayne
he has no facts." i want America to re forced inlo growing up as all loo ollen . worse, l ore , said recently.
'"I'lwns. ' Morse railed for "a bloodless
We are so lucky to have had our ) victory" over communism in Ihis
dad for so long. 1 cried al Ihe ' hemisphere and he said it's !
funeral. I cried for our own loss, ready on Ihe way.
but I cried more for the poor chil-! "When those refugees return
dren of this world whose numliers 1 from one of their raids, they
are untold who have not had a real ; should he met bv marshals, tossed
father as we did. into iail and sent back on ihe nrvi
Humphrey said tliat "apparently ; ruin h' .rm,"w"' ',nr-
P. O. Box SSJ
Myrtle Creek, Ore.
. Resident Is Grateful
For Father's Influence
Dad used to say: "Friends are h"t." Morse said in a speech he
me GUI' slrategy Is to raise
rifltwo oaciuro i hu i manrt that the President set the
rnttfwj it Muni ci inor Miy t, i doubts to rest "
UK, .ii lit pi,r mic il Roiburfl, on-; mmM
Ofl. undtr Id 0 Alurth I, 1171 "
Publnhrt Dtlly EtcDt Swxlir by
twseview puolumino to tUEinA LOWhOV Wini
FubliiKr i " 1 -
.. ! To The Ediior
M OKAiNK (ll'lj A Eugene, i k.,,,m I, . I ,.., -.,.! I .,i ..I,., I,,, ' j , fore K.inil. fnr lr.l
Nt A Srrvlcr. ' Ore lirimr .i,.l !lral,, I. ,.11 : -"' "Wim-i. -
uii Buru m ciifuianw im o., ,.,,' , , " : I lie iNewsHcuow nave read Uie anil crn-d logelhrr. I want lo He said t uban exile raids were
k4ww MMmi ... . ' , , , k i, ." !' :"lunins and letters written by mv thank all our fi tends for their svm- forcing the role of Ihe aggressor
N,N:r izxvz rrzl iS'S rLiJ ida"- nn ' "'" ,ml man-v m st..e,. ,nds.dded
vixii" si f".c,o cut .annual inaniomi pur Kodeo here hesitate lo wrile Ihis letter. Hut fatnilv is rich imlerd nhrn vou thai Ihe West is Binning a blooil-
cirm iHiSRMNeo"'o.ti - i h ay SUnhm both j I would like lo share a very much-; measure richness by friendship! less victory atr communism in
nwm. ii ii, . mvym. u, l ym. i7oo . ",lv's of the competition in the ing exenenre with evervone who 1 Dad also said that out of all sor-. this hemisphere.
rnimi)"'i,"i,,"i0'r,J Tf-V" 'i." ", , r"llns '" 1 m n1IHl has lost a loved one row comes some good if you ..ulvi -You can alrcadv see it hanpen-
XT-vZlSl .'.,' tT": ''L"lo'n2 ouUco!e in! . "A h.Ue cM ,hall search for and .hat "no man has ; ing ,n Cut.,'" he I J "Ten-
- .nwiirn, rrwlht. tUi I tHr "r "muuim uuil IIUHIK Wlin lt3 IPAII IliPMl. llnW itllf' : ripht !rt nvwH l.i In nn IK.. .- n l - c ..
ft pims. j ihi is wriltrn just Hk fromlfanh withoul IrvmR lo lpa it a wit two )eart co."
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