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3t)C 3ttts-ltwicu 4Th News-Review. Roseburg, Ort. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1963 "What Makes You Think I'm Interested?" X3X Cjone (J3ij Taken from Hit files of the News Review . OFFfRS POOR IXCUtl ST. PAUL, Minn. tl'Pl) Tb Highway Department said Thurs day a pedestrian charged with ignoring a "don't walk ign"told the judge he thought it was an advertisement for a taxi company. -.-c ; "aameaao- t it m 1 "i" Interesting Facts Unearthed Did you know that in 1856, what was known an Camas Prairie, in western Douglas County once belonged to Coos County? This was one of the interesting facts unearthed by the League of Women Vot ers in their latest project, a study of Douglas County characteristics. The year-long study appears likely to become one of the moBt comprehensive ever made. The first report to chapter members showed that Douglas County was form ed Jan. 6, 1852, and Winchester was se lected as the county seat. Douglas Coun ty in 1856 took in the Camas Prairie area and part of Jackson county in order to bring all of the Umpqua River and its tributaries into the county boundaries. Then, an act was passed Dec. 18, 1862, by the territorial legislature, combining Douglas and Umpqua counties. This was brought about because the county gov ernment of Umpqua County was finding it difficult to meet current costs. The county seat was moved to Deer Creek in March of 1854, and Deer Creek was renamed Roseburg in 1855, in honor of Aaron Rose, one of the area's first in habitants. These tidbits of interesting information lead off the study, but there's a lot more to come. The League is going into much more complex areas as the year of study progresses. Included are studies of struc ture and functions of the county govern ment and all the integral departments involved. Mr. Education Honored Again Mr. Education of Douglas County has been honored again. He is Eugene Fish er of Elkton. This week, he was named chairman of the state Board of Higher Education. Probably no one in the history of the county has garnered more honors in the field of education nor done more in the heady atmosphere of educational policy than has Fisher. He has been active in the field of edu cation for almost two decades, and dur ing that time, he has established firmly that it doesn't necessarily take a person from the big town to do something about the destinies of education on a state, and even a national, level. The Elkton man has proved that one man can do something about something as vast as the field of education. And we salute him. Sisters Cities List Is Growing Roseburg will be joining a growing list of Oregon towns which have joined the "Sister City" movement when it se lects ila sister city. The League of Ore gon Cities reports the following cities have affiliated: Coos Bay with Larvik, Norway; Corvallis with Antofagasta, Chi le; Eugene with Chlnju, Korea; Forest Grove with Bornova, Turkey; Klamath Falls with Rotorua, New Zealand; Lake Oswego with Puco, Chile; Medford with Waimale, N. Z.; Milwaukie with Nago, Okinawa; and Portland with Sapporo, Japan. All of these have programs actually un der way. Opinions From Readers J2L Mails Deteriorate Steadily In U. S. Foreign Spending Lashed At Ridiculous, Repulsivt To The Editor: A billion ii t thousand million, 1 see in the paper where Con gress wishes to give India another billion dollars. Just what the United States will set in return for this has not been clearly delineated by the purported givers, la the pur pose to buy fricndshipT If so, now much friendship do we have for the billions of dollars we gave to tiolli Russia and China in worm War II? What did we get from those countries for the money spent, the blood spilled, the lives lost to bail the hides of those coun tries out of mortal hock? Did the money spent provent the Chinese 110m becoming communist? Government Broke Our government ia broke already being MM billion in the rod with gold flawing out of the country. This $304 billion, or tho green backs issued for It, is what jacks tip the cost of living. That Is the poor money, which does not repre sent either goods or services but dilutes the value of the good mon ey that does represent goods and services. We are told and aro in the habit of thinking the federal debt docs not amount to anything even though it ia the primary cause for tho increased cost of liv ing. Yet, also, somewhere hidden in our income tax or withholding statements we are all paying more than a trifle just to rover the interest on it. In 1WM when the debt was eighteen billion dol lari less than it la now, the in (crest paid on It for that year was nine billion dollars. If we divide 181) million people into 9 billion noiurs, mat would require every man. woman and child in the United States to pay SMI each just to Keep up with the interest. For a family at live this would he S250. of course it is not paid that way. Some will pay more and some will pay less depending upon their earnings; yet everybody who works will pay something just to keep the Interest paid nn an In creasing public debt. Think of what it would mean if each of us could get about a hundred dollars of that interest money to put awav for his own old ago each venr for the 45 years from ago 20 to age 65. That money would give one $4,500 without interest. You would have considerable more with the interest paid on it, which I have not attempted to calculate: but you n ay in your spare time nr use your nanKer i interest table. Expertness Lashod The senators and representatives who beliove that we should send all this foreign aid are very expert in talking out of both sides of their mouths. On the one hand we aro an "affluent society" that has more than it needs, and on the oilier hand our individuals anil communi ties arc so poor (not as poor as Uncle Sam with a $304,000,000,000. 00 deficit) Hint we must havo fed eral aid for education, health. housing, and just about anything mat you ran imagine. Tho best way for each reader to determine how 'affluent a so ciety's we really have is to count how much he lias left over when he finished paying for his fam ily s lood, clothing, shelter, and educational expenses. Inasmuch as the federal govern ment is already brake, tho only way that they can get the money for India is from the sweat and toil of those in this country who work by increasing taxes or spend ing that which they havo not (de ficit spending; which through in flation comes out of everybody's pocket anyway. It is because we don't say much about these things that congress gets the idea that wo don't care. We have been giv ing this money lo these countries for about eighteen years, since the end of World War II, about $100 billion of it. Are we heartless for withdrawing it now? Isn't it about time they were weaned? , If hunger is acute, and charity is the abject, let us, under tho aus pices of the American Red Cross, send them a few boat loads of the agriculture surplus we have ac cumulated and cannot use. Loans Noodtd One may not make true friends by continually giving. If we are to help India or any other nation lo .self respect and respect for us, it is better to transfer to them I lie concept of our culture of our free institutions rather than our money. They would like both us and themselves belter than if they would borrow the billion dollars for private enterprise, to be paid back when they becaino self sup porting. It was our free Institutions that allowed individual Americans to ilovise and lo put into plans of op erations methods which resulted in a material plenty. Yet the working people of America work long and hard for what thev get. and need not npologi.c to anybody for hav ing ii. ii niese oilier countries will model themselves after us, they may have bnlh (he spiritual bless ings of liberty and increased ma terial wealth. Perhaps whether there was initial wisdom right alt er the war of giving all these other countries money may or may not be so. Yet this was generosity and might be within the keeping of a generous nation hut the idea that we have to do it now in order to survive Is both ridiculous and re pulsive. Strangely, most of those who are forever for giving our money away ininK we should mod el ourselves after the countries we are giving our monev to. Did somebody sav'l926 or 18? I was talking about 1776. , Hoy E. llanford. M.D. 2564 W. Harvard Ave. Roseburg, Ore. By ROBERT RUARK i I presume the trains are still running, although I have not met anyone recently who has ridden one for any considerable distance. But I do note that Eastern Airlines, which is in stark trouble with its longer services, is doing a thriv ing, 70-per ccnt-of -total air trade Willi its old piston aircraft on the shuttle runs between New York, Washington and Boston, routes serviced by six airlines. The shuttle run, if you don t know about it, is a walk-on, buy- your-ticket-aboard service which offers no food, drink, or fancy fa cility. It merely runs every hour, and if. one plane fills up, they lay on another. About 2la-million people have ridden Eastern's shut tles alone in the past two years, and about the same number will travel the shuttles in 1963 alone. Sorvico Improves I note, too, that improvement in bus service has made an enorm ously profitable operation out of the Greyhound people's land-liners, and folk who once scored buses as a genteel means of travel now ride them out of perference in certain - In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news todav? HOLD YOUR IIATI In Washington, the Defense l)c- V,-i.MrS,,!lm!; 10 dri" -MILB-, hole in the ground and bury at its base a "post-attack" com mand control licadquartcra for emergency use in any nuclear hol ocaust. Presumably, after a nuclear at tack Willi lOOmegalon bombs ev erything would be dcslrovcd. From the bottom of the milc-ileep hole experts would then emerge to di rect the job of reconstruction. The cost of the bole and the headquarters at the bottom of it estimated at mora than Sioo million. Opinion as to the project is divided. The chairman of tho House Armed Services committee is against It. So is (ieneral Thomas rower, commander in chief of the Pacific Air Command. Defense Secretary McNamara It presumed lo be for It. ????'' It aounds weird. But at that it makes more sense than some of the other Washing ton i proposals to spend a hundred million dollars. For example: The United Klale U nlinninn double-header space shot to the iiriKuuurnooa oi me planet Mars in the autumn nf nail Ii u-miM i, the pioneer effort tor a MANNED sum aiHiui a uccauc laier. Details of the planned double header came on the eve of a two- daV SVmnmillltl nn lit nlnrfmn ol Mars, lor which many of the na tion s lop space scientists are gath ering at Denver. Mars is supposed to have an at mosphere much less dense than that of the earth, hut still an at mosphere. Many straight, dark lines can be seen on it through the telescopes. Decades ago, Perrival Lowell of the Ijjwell observatory at Flag staff, Am., believed these lines were stripes of vegetation along the banks of canals, and that thev proved the existence of a verv de veloprd form of life. He believed that the regularitv of the lines showed they were planned by intel ligent beings. The purpose n( tins proposed spare flight to Mars would be to FIND OCT. Probing question: Do you reckon modern man hist might b getting too big for his britches? More about Mars: the planet was named for the god of war in Roman Mythology, soldiers of the Roman legions, go ing lo war, carried chickens that were sacred to Mars. They led corn to these hiids just before an impending battle. If the chickens ate hungrily, it was a sign that the liori o( Baltics was on their side and thev would he sure lo win If the chickens re fused to eat. the Roman soldiers believed Ihey would CERTAINLY LOSE. Fortunately fur the military cam paigns nf early Rome, chickens seldom fail to eat when feed is spread before them. sections of the land. Greyhound Is , English as a race write compul- burgeoning, while the trains speak low with a very poor mouth. There is a parallel here, too, in the fact that mail service Has been threatened to be cut off or not even started to new buildings in New York City. Deliveries in many areas have been curtailed. It sometimes takes a week to re ceive a letter in Manhattan from Brooklyn. This, of course, despite all that corny old jazz about not rain nor snow nor sleet, and the fact that the Post Office just raised rates on airmail, first class, and postcards by a penny. Why Float? I don't know why we have fleas in the Post Office, but it seems to have been deteriorating steadily for years and years. You can't blame the sloppy, sloven service it took five days recently to de liver to me a first-class letter in New York from Philadelphia, a train haul of two hours on the fact that there are more people, the cities are bigger, people write more. The city of Londo.i, England, leads the world in size, and the THE LIGHTER SIDE: MP Hole Manufacturer Wasn't Interviewed By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPl)-In cov ering astronaut Gordon Cooper's space flight last month, the ra dio networks were at times hard pressed for material to keep the airwaves busy when nothing much was happening. 11 seemed lo me they inter- threads would strip or pull out and the thing that the screws or bolts held together would begin to shake, rattle or come apart Hocked Wife's Rlnas In 1949, Baruch formed a com pany to work on the problem. raising capital, among other methods, by hocking his wife's viewed every person who had brings. Two "years later they had any remote connection wun tne space program, and then they in terviewed his brother-in-law. On occasions, when there was a delay in the countdown or some oilier uneventful interlude. I got the impression they were going out and dragging people in off the streets. Even so. there was one angle sively. You can't buy a bloke a beer without receiving a thank-you note, and people habitually use the mails for short communications rather than employing the phone. But in England you get this aft ernoon's letter tomorrow morning, and you average, in my digs there, three or four deliveries a day. Somebody, in England, knows how to run a post office. The plight of the train, the suc cess of the airline shuttles and the buses, and the slack-lipped ineffi ciency of the Post Office in Amer ica point a moral, it seems to me. There has been a general weaken ing of efficiency in most of the services, and perhaps people who are interested in the future of said services better pause for thought and then shape up. Chores Done For instance, the unbelievably high prices charged by such crafts men, as plumbers, carpenters, and bricklayers, have produced an en tirely new breed of do-it yourself Americans. Perhaps they don t lay a brick or fix a roof or unplug a drain as well as the pros, but they do the chores passably well. While the overpriced craftsmen have dealt themselves out, in a great many small-bore jobs, an entire new industry in simple pow er tools has flowered and prosper ed, Plywood has largely replaced the plank in home tinkering. Cop per tubing has rendered elbows in pipe-joining practically obsolete. Any adult can bend a copper tube. I think the railroads, apart from slow freights and slower commuter trains, have lost the ball game. Nobody is going to build his own railroad to overcome the old-fashioned smugness and malfunction that drove the trains to the shunt ing yards and the passengers to the air, but the warning is clear. The airlines were forced to reform themselves to heed the customer's cries of pain over cumbersome ticketing and baggage - handling procedures, of arrogant passenger handling and sloppy scheduling. 40 YEARS AGO Juno I, 1W3 Five shots were fired by three highwaymen who last night at tempted to halt a traveling sales man who was on the road between Canyonville and Glendale. The auto driver, sensing a holdup, stepped on the gas and drove his car by the trio at a high rate of speed and the outlaws, in firing on the machine, failed to do any damage. The man whose name was not ascertained, was traveling toward Glendale at about 9 o'clock in the evening when the three men step ped into the road and flashed men acing revolvers. The salesman later stopped at the J. B. Hart Store near the Jones ranch and word was telephoned from there to Deputy Sheriff Bran ham who got in touch with "Two Gun Hopkins" at Canyonville. The two men closed in on the holdup spot but the men had taken to the brush and were not found. 25 YEARS AGO Juno 8, 1938 Ten Democratic senators pro posed today that a three-man sen atorial committee be appointed to investigate charges of politics in relief which might arise during the 1938 political campaign. The resolution was introduced by Sen. Tydings (D-Md.) just about the lime Harry Hopkins was telling re porters that Sen. Gillette's renom ination in the Iowa Democratic primary showed that the WPA was not playing politics. 10 YEARS AGO Juno I, 1853 The last big stumbling block to a Korean truce was swept aside today with the signing ot a prisoner exchange agreement, but South Ko rean opposition shot to the boiling point as their leaders vowed to continue fighting. COWS LIKE POLKA FORT ATKINSON, Wis. (UPI) Mrs. Carl Lange said she and her husband noticed a milk pro duction slump during the two months their barn radio was broken. Mrs. Lange said . production after it was fixed and added the cows seem to like a "good lively polka." ' Qbc3lcwsltcoicw '. MS 5. C Main ST. RoietourB- Oregon Telephone ORchard 2-3331 Entered as seond ds matter May 7, t920, at the pc: office at Roseburg. Ore gon, under act ot March 2. 1873. Published Dally Except Sunday by . NEWS-RPVIEW PUBLISHING CO. J. V. Brenner Publisher The News-Review is a member of the United Press International, NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Circulation and tht Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. - National Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co..- Russ Building, San Francisco Calif. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carr ei ana Roseburg P O. Boxes 1 month, 51.75; months, Slt-SO: 1 year, $31.00 By Mj' In Oregon: 1 month. $1 75; 3 nonths, $4.50; 4 months, $9.00; 1 year $18.00. Outside Of Oregon: t month. $.75; 3 months, $5.3i months. $10.50; 1 year $ 1 1.00. it licked Although mon than 50 patents , Compare with the damn the-custo-cover the process and others are mer attitude in (he postwar( t0. being obtained all the time, tha ! dav.B airiine operations are mir- BRING YOUR- Sawar Drainage Septic Tank Drain Field Excavating PROBLEMS T0-PRE-MIX CONCRETE PIPE CO. OR 2-2694 UNCLE AL'S STORY CORNER by Alan Knudtson of KNUDTSONS' JEWELERS You won't ever hear a conversa tion like the following in OUR store: Customer: "Is this watch water proof?" - - Salesman: "Oh, yes, ' it says so rignt on me oacK oi me waicn . . . . right there, printed on the metal." Customer: "Can 1 wear it in swim ming?" Salesman: "Well, it's waterproof, but I don't think you ought to wear it in c vimming!" Customer: "How about if 1 wear it in the shower? Is it guaran teed waterproof if I wear it in the shower?" Salesman: "Well actually, I would n't recommend that you wear it in the shower . . . but it prob ably wouldn't cause the watch any damage at all." Customer: "Well, what I mean is, ... if I wore the watch in the shower and ... let's say it leak ed and wrecked the watch . . . what happens then?" Salesman: "Well, I suppose we'd just have to repair it for you if it leaked and it was damaged." Customer: "Does the guarantee mvp thai1" ' Salesman: "wnai oo. you mean: Customer: "1 mean, if the watch was damaged and had to be re paired . . . will you repair it for me; or what?" Salesman: "Uh . . . no . . . we couldn't do that. Now the com pany might, repair it, 1 don't know." Customer: "This tag on the watch says this watch has been tested by the U.S. Testing Corp. and is certified to be waterproof and is guaranteed." Salesman: "Yes, that's true. Kach watch has been tested and is guaranteed waterproof." Customer: "That's what I mean! What happens if it DOES leak?" Salesman: "1 don l ininK n win if vou take reasonable care of it." Customer: "Let's say it does, though! My watch that I'm wear ing is always fogging up under the crystal and I can't seem to find anybody (watchmaker) who. can keep it from fogging up. rne last time n toggea up it cost me ten dollars to get it fixed! Now, if tills watch thai you're showing me fogs up and it rusts, who pays the bill?" Salesman: "Under those circum stances l guess you a nave iu- Customer: "How come it's guar anteed then; I just don't get it!, What do you mean by guaran teed?" FACT: "Only a Relex or a Mid watch is guaranteed waterproof indefinitely (with periodic re sealing if necessary). If a Mido or Rolex watch leaks ANY kind of moisture, we will repair it or replace it FREE." (Advertisement) acies of competence and courtesy. Opposition Needed One of these days we may even principle of the Baruch screw hole is so simple that even I can understand it. It merely involves putting a lining into a threaded hole to re- see , demonstration of practical inforce the threads. This doubles i . t; . jn that the broadcasters apparently I tl strength of the threads, so I yourself dentistrv We are already "1 !i.on.er.i.n"lie "Li'""" onlv h"f " ,mn' bol, or "ufe to the noon we have re- . i .V, screws are nccaen. ur you can i cen,iv kickei o(f another Telstar. to nil in tne gap. ,; use the same number but make..,, i u-nnrtnr if it ,vniH ha .im I have just been interviewing j them twice as small. lrl, ,r ,h !. oifire Ita. the man who manufactured the screw holes for Cooper's capsule Unaware Of Importance In rocketry and other fields where weight is vital, the Baruch screw hole is a blessing indeed partment to get the lead out of its pants? It is a monopoly, you know. against all tenets of good govern- has only a limited acquaintance jwith nuts and bolts, screw holes may not seem very important. I ! was unaware nf how vital they are, and some of my best friends ; are nuts. WANT TATTOOS OUTLAWED j BARROW. England tt'Plt 1 Schoolmasters have asked the government to make it illegal to ' tattoo a chilil under 16 without parental consent. II Cunlilfe. headmaster of , Risedale secondary school, said He was shocked to find (seven bo in a physical train 'ing class had tattoos, including ione with "a naked woman along hn forearm." , axNinai il icm-is ui niniu ku.itiii I" ' ' V,'"S!J 'V """''. wh0'"i company now does an Sll!nrenl defined by our attorney minion annual uusiness ana nas general, and there is no real reason plants in six countries. whv some bright voung people If there is a moral to this cain set up an optK)Sition service, story, I think it can be expressed , i,,.ph n the rr.,f;i vtm wh., las follows: Don't waste time try- sa)5 the government has to han inc to build a better mousetran: Oi. But atler talking with Eduarrl build a better screw hole instead. (Coovriatt. IHj by Uniffd FMhir. Synd , Inc.) narucn, preform tu ine lieu-ion Corp. nf Danbury. Conn., who was here this week on business, I will never take screw holes lightly attain It would perhaps he going too far to say that Conner couldn't have urluted at all without Mu nich's screw holes. However, there is no gainsaying that they represent a major contribution to the space program. They have made passible ad vances in the ue of so-called light material aluminum, mag nesium, plastics, fiberglass, etc. ! that would not otherwise have been possible. i "These materials had one com ; mon limitation." Bamrh ex 1 plained "The strength of the .threads in the material was less i than the strength of the screw or I holt used to assemble it to some- thing. j "Lnder heavy stress, the Family Plan Far The Entir Family Mean - Ornery - Big BRAHMAS All Tht Thrills And Spills That Go With Thtm Will Be At The Rodeo. 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