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4Th News-Review. Roseburg, Ort. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1963
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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.
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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." '
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Although mon than 50 patents , Compare with the damn the-custo-cover
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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."
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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
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