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The' Editor's Corner Jit "The Time to Fight Is Now, Au Revoir!" 4sThi Newi-Rtvitw, Roseburg, Ort. Fire The explosive situation facing Douglas County and the rest of Oregon in its for ests this summer was emphasized strong ly last week by State Forester Dwight Phipps. He told the state forestry board the extreme fire hazards resulting from the Oct, 12 typhoon blowdown would probab ly lead to expanded use of the forestry shutdown during the summer. ' The potential hazard to the state's for ests is described by many as the great est in history. The latest Forest Log, a slate Board of Forestry publication, points out some of the most disastrous forest fires in North American history have resulted from buildup of slash fuels which fed them. This debris, which may include flashy dried needles and branch es, pitchy limbs and chunks of logs and bark is forest, fuel in its most hazardous condition. This time, nature has created the big gest slash pile ever seen and it is worse than the traditional man-made log ging slash. Access to blowdown areas is relatively poor, making fire fighting a tremendous problem, . Heavy blowdown areas contain vast quantities of fuels, sometimes 15 to 20 feet deep. . Compared to logging slash, this has better burning potential because much of it is held above the ground by limbs and tree trunks. Thus, it will burn hotter and faster. - ; Of course, despite the immensity of the Educators Reveal Varied Reactions To Legislature By ZAN STARK and ANN H. PEARSON SALEM (UPI) The Educa tor! responsible for Oregon's stu dents came to the 1963 legislature with pleas, cajolery,; and warn ings that the level of eduation mutt be kept up. ; Thoir experiences with the leg islature ranged from cordial to rugged. 5 When It was all over, their feelings ranged from satisfied, to mixed, to outspokenly adverse. The biggest problem was money. Education will take more than half the MM million for the next two years. The most bruising fight was over the college and university system. which got the most detailed re view of any subject before the legislature. Walsh Urged Mere When the legislature convened in January, William Walsh of the state Board of Higher Education jabbed his glasses at a commit tee and dcclarod the system would fight for more than the gov ernor had proposed. , It ended up with a little (ess, but In view of the money prob lem, It fared well, Higher education came out with a $77.3 million general hind oper ating budget plus $2 million for a hospital transferred to its medi cal school from the board of con trol. It was given a $44 million build ing program, using both bonds and general funds, although a por tion of it is contingent upon voter approval of a bond Issue. And It got $1.7 for salary Improvements over and above built-in raises. The main cuts in the operating budget came from a reduction in new teachers. Under legislative pressure, the system also in creased student fees, particularly for out-of-state students. Deterioration Claimed When it ended, Walsh called it "the hardest blow hiRhcr educa tion has suffered In 20 years. . . it means a real deterioration." Chancellor R. E. Ltetiallcn spoke more softly. He said the system "fared well In some areas u)fl suffered setbacks in others." Tokan from the I 40 YEARS AGO and other buildings Is now being fi June 10 ,1JJ cut at the Kenton and Norrls mill f It was announced today that Til- east of town. The company hopes r. following a custom set many to "spud In" by Julv 4. A gc tears ago, will again be the scene ologist making a general survev f a big 4th of July celebration, says he Is sure that oil will be Both July 3 and 4 have been soli found in Douglas Countv. and the aside for the celebration. They will structure in Sutherhn valley is the . , men wnn Slums, contests i ana leaiures. sucn as wild West movie thrillers in the shade Incorporation papers for the Suth erlin Oil and Development Co. are being prepared, and it was an nounced that timber for the derrick Jbe3.ciu$-ttcuicu U S. e Mlm ST. RoMbufS. Oftoon Ttkchona ORchtrd J-Jlll Fnttrrtf it , uod cliu malttf May t, lW. Jl ttw pot) otflra at Rotrbura. Ota eoa undtr act of Anarch 9. w. Pubtlilwd Dally F-icapt Sunday by NEWs-lVIEW PUBLISHING CO J. V. trannar Publluitr Tra Nawt-Rtvltw it a mtmbar ef lha Unllw Praw IMprnallonal, NA S'rvlca. Ayd.t Burtau of Clrrvlahon and lha Oragen NtWKMptf Publisher! Auooaflon i halonal Atfvtrllilno. Rpraia,itativa tl Vlampapar Advarilitng Strvica Ca. Run Building. Sar. FranclKo Calif. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tarr-at ano Rotatxirg P. O. Boitl t month, tl.fi; monthl, Ilfl.JOr ytr, 111 00 tJ"''. . ' month. II.Hi s rr-M;s)l moMM. W.OOl I yar Jmonthi, mi, mantni, llt.Ki I yaar Danger Calls For He was critical of faculty cuts, and said inadequate salary money will cause the, system to "slip back an additional step or two. His praise took in graduate pro grams and scholarships. The new chancellor also spoke well of the committee thut gave him his baptism of fire at a leg islature. Its members, after work ing with him through the session, returned the praise and called relations a "decided improve ment" over 1961. But a few other legislators were rankled at education pressures, and termed Licuallen the legisla ture's "highest paid lobbyist." Clov. Mark lliitficld called the legislature's actions "detriment al to the quality of higher edu cation." Frtedam Left Intact In an area perhaps more im- fiortant than money, however, ligher education came out of the session with ils freedom intact. The lawmakers talked, as thev always do. of spelling out just wnere me aonars are to be spent, as is done In other budgets, but i they didn't do it. I for lower education, from erarie one through community colleges, 1 the legislative experience was' quieter and happier. Hatfield and Superintendent of Public Instruction Leon Minear noted that schools got what the governor requested, and the com munity colleges got a littlo more. The legislature approved $141 million for aid to schools, an in- creaso of about $10 per child. It still left the state's share of school costs at only about 39 per cent. special rrograma Helped Special urograms sot J.va mil lion, community colleges, $4.3, the department of education and vo cational rehabilitation $4.1. Tlio legislature said It's possible for new community colleges to be created, but they won't get any slato help for a while. Of equal importance, the legis lature overhauled basic school funding, separating special pro grams and changing to a more realistic count or school children. Its appropriations come out to $143 per child the first Year of the biennium and $152 the second. of The Nawi-Rayiaw best he has found in the state JS YEARS AGO June 10, Wl A public hearing started in Ilose burg today before the U. S. Army Corps of Kngincers in which pro ponents of canalitation of the I'mp qtia River tor navigation, irrigation and power are urging a study. To-! feet nf killing federal aid to edu day. as if timed for the hearing. cation, which will be in the long it was announced that Sen. Charles i run jtit another bureau for the lib- McNary had introduced an amend- ment to the flood control hill for a thrce way survey of the river. 10 YEARS AGO June 10, ItSl A 14 5 ear old Roseburg golfer, Carole Jo Kabler, walked away with top honors at the Southern Or egon Junior Tournament held at Med ford A Ilosebuig man, Capt. Vernon Gravning has been awarded a gold i.r in ii f . ,hZ!t .i . tl m.r Z,. .n ,. ' MJV for meritorious acts while partlci- paling In aerial flight against the Communists in North Korea. MONDAY, JUNI 10, 1963 Caution job of meeting the fire hazard, much is being done to minimize it. Foresters are exerting tremendous ef forts to salvage the blowdown, with the cooperative increase in sales by the U. S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Man agement. They have their work cut out for them because the salvage in Oregon is estimated at 6.2 million feet. This is almost as much as the total amount of timber harvested in 1961. More access roads are being opened as rapidly as possible as another step in coping with fire danger. Fire fighters are also doing some big advance planning. They are mapping the areas of blowdown to make possible quick dispatch of fighters in case of fire. In addition, they are posting areas with dan ger signs to warn the public. Travel in the forests, of course, will be subject to per mit. The unpredictability of lightning will throw many a scare into the. fire fight ers, but man will be an even bigger con sideration., Care in the forests this summer can't be stressed enough. Forestry and fire fighting agencies have already started pleading for this. More than ever before there must be a close cooperation between the fire control agencies and forest land owners. And more than ever before, ev ery visitor to the forest must gear his activities to averting a conflagration which could burn thousands of acres of trees from our future. The Almanac By United Press International Today is Monday, June 10th, the 161st day of 1963 with 204 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1776, the Continental Con gress appointed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independ ence. In 1864, (he USS Kcarsarge sank the Confederate cruiser Alabama off Cherbourg, France, during the uvu war. In 181)8, U.S. Marines began the invasion of Cuba in the Spanish American War. In 1942, the German Gestapo burned the tiny village of Lidice, in Czochoslovaika, after shooting the 173 male inhabitants of the. town, and deporting the women and children to concentration camps, A thought for the day Henry David Thorcau said: "It takes two to sneak the truth one to speak and another to hear." Reader Opinions Biggtr Families Hurt By Income Tax Squeexe To The Editor: It has long been accepted that large families were food for our country. Every year on Mother's Day tribute is paid to them for their great contribution to society by their act of motherhood and the work of raising children. Don't mis understand me, I pay high tribute to them anil they well deserve the recogntlion. Now (lie morc-children-you-have-the more-yoU'Pay philosophy has caught up to the situation of in creasing school budgets. These are often almost unbearable, especial ly for the lower income families which generally have the most chil dren. Large families have thus be come economically unfeasible and the new state income tax law puis the squceie on those parents who are least able to afford it. It is going to be Interesting to watch the development of this so ciological problem. It may give emphasis to what a famous educa tor said in California some years back. I can't remember who it was or where lie apoke ind at this date it will he wry hard to affi davit this. Hut 1 can give the gist of his words: Ho said that as long as we have compulsory education that the quality of it will go down and the cost go up. Now we have it. Some other sys tem will have to be worked out, and 1 hope It is on the state level where the people still have the prerogative of a little control. This is an area which the Liber ty Amendment will help by keep ing the solution of the problem on local level. It will have the ef- erals to waste money in, and the taxpayer will foot the bill of waste ful spending. So the Liberty Amrmlment is much needed to i keep our problem at home. i Stacy Adams : I. O. rlo 427 I Ynncalla. Oregon GREETING FOR JFK ,,v,-,i i t . , JJ."Nc?.1,1 11 U V A.mon'! 100.0UO Hawaiian! cheering Presi- Kennedy Sunday was one ttho took ,, , h BoJton ,c. cent bv waving this sign-"Aloh- tr, Jack." By ROBERT C. RUARK It Is indeed small wonder that a sudden rash of threats of Negro vi olence in the North, as well as in the South, should begin to make top headlines in the papers; tiiat the hatc-the-white splinter groups are suddenly being dignified; or that such as Adam Clayton Pow ell is predicting that Washington, predominantly Negro-heavy, is go ing "to be the scene of one of the worst race riots in history unless certain things are done." Our militant Negro leaders read the papers, read the roster of tho new members of the United Na tions, and see nothing but a recita Governor Calls Legislature One Of Modest Achievement Editors note: The fallowing cri tique ef tha 1943 Oragon Lagitla ture has betn written expressly for UPI by Gov. Mark Hatfiald. By GOV MARK HATFIELD i Writttn far , United Press International I SALEM (UPI ) Six months ago, ion December 1, the budget pro gram of this administration was presented. On January 14 further recommendations were made in my message to the legislature. It was obvious in both instances that it would take courage and fore sight to support the broad reforms recommended. A governor, in choosing his rec ommendations has two alterna tives. Ho can set major signifi cant goals that are in the people's interest, in the broadest sense, or he can timidly ask for what he thinks he can get without con troversy. In neither case can he expect to bat 1,000 per cent. Of my 64 major recommenda tions, 39 have been adopted. For the additions of welfare staff (providing a new emphasis on re habiliation). for the efforts to ward identification and treatment of sex deviates, for the extension of concern for the senior citizens in medicare and homestead re tention, for the legal armament in the war on traffic fatalities, for the creation of a department of commerce, the legislature may well take pride in meaningful achievement. But any measurement of the longest, costliest, and the first fairly-compensated legislature in the state's history must note in adequacies described in terms ranging trom tragedy to regret. In some specific categories t h e performance was, at best, inade quate. That constitution revision was not referred to the people is a discouragement to those of both parties who worked so construc tively on the document and a fur ther delay in providing Oregon with a constitution equal to our needs. The dismantling of civil de fense, an action that may be emulated elsewhere in a wave of Irrationality, must give aid and comfort to the Kremlin and Cuba and China. We spend billions to conquer space but we deny thou sands for preparedness at home a sad commentary on our value judgments. And, we watch pro posals for Improvement of work men's compensation slammed back and forth in legalistic and parliamentary maneuvers of de lay and diversion that lengthen the session, and inflame the tem pers of temperate men a sorry performance indeed. As with previous sessions, patches were added to the cray quilt of inequitable exemptions, allowances, and rates to our tax structure. The legislature failed to fart up to what its successors will one day ha to provide a Negro May Lose Favorable Opinion tion of successful violence. Old Jomo Kcnyatta of Kenya is today the first Prime Minister of Kenya, a land which kept him jailed and detained for a period of nine years as leader of the infamous Mau Mau terrorists. Gichuru Graduate Joino's minister of Finance. James Gichuru, is a graduate of the prison pens. Peter Koinange, in charge of Pan-African affairs, fled Kenya after implication in the murder of one of the older, stead ier paramount chiefs, and ived in' exile under threat of arrest if he returned to Kenya. Joseph Morum bi, minister of state to the prime basic reform that will provide a more equitable and adequate tax program. Orcgonians, through their demands over the years, have developed a "high service" state but our population cannot support such a standard of govern mental excellence without further influx of new industry and an ex pansion of existing payrolls. In a special message I pled for labor - management legislation which would deal with the devas tating strikes and lockouts which have crippled our economy in the past. The proposals endorsed by a legislative Interim committee were killed. Other interim committee rec ommendations, the product of two years of study, were for the most part ignored. This, plus the refus al to submit to the people pro posals for revenue reform and for reconstituting our government is in itself an indictment of legis lative inaction. And what of the future, of suc cessive legislative sessions? Un less there are problems I do not now foresee, little would be gained by calling a special session for the return of those who la bored in this regular session. There Will be those who say a legislature is known as much by the bills it does not approve as for the legislation it enacts. In some measure, the peddlers of the status quo have won a vic tory. But if the people prefer a more constructive approach to the needs of our slate, they will have an opportunity to so express themselves at the polls in 1964. With more adequate legislative pay. candidates who previously could not afford a biennial winter and spring in Salem mav be in duced to seek membership in the legislature. Whether a "better" I legislature or "worse" will be ' seated depends on how informed the individual citizen becomes be- i twecn now and then and howl clearly he iccognizes the imtiaet this legislature lias made on his I daily life and that of his family, j j The democratic process pro-; j vides for periodic review of the; I actions of the people's represent-; t atives. The decisions of 1964 will ; declare the people's appraisal of i i the value of 141 days of modest i acnievement, massive inaction,! and notable mistakes. Beonchlnci out too fast is co oy to find yourself out on a minister, is another remaining out- of-bounds for the duration of the emergency. Oginga ' Odinga, a grcot friend of the Communists and agitator without parallel, is Min ister for Home Affairs, and it wasn l long ago that his passport was ucing wunneiu and his per son searched. So it goes. Ahmed Ben Bella made his place as Algerian chief of state by Deing jailed while his long distance terrorists wrecked h Frencli hold on Algeria. Most of me current chieftains in tiie Mid dle East bought their present emi nence in blood. Makarios, now the boss Cypriot. was once exiled as a pumic enemy. Khrushchev was portion to the blood baths in Rus sia, and was supposed to be in on uie liquidation of Lavrenti Bcria. Terrorists Offend - Ben Bella, in the recent Pan Africa meeting in Addis Ababa, coolly offered 10.000 trained ter- rorist mercenaries to invade a land far from his own, Mozambique and Angola. The fearful massacres of March lo, 1963, in Angola, were touched off by trained mercenaries mounted in the Congo. Violence has been Hie touchstone, to emancipation, in the East and in Africa, with small exception and that emancipation is not se cure within the ranks of the win ners. They knocked off Lumumba and Sylvanus Olympio. and have had a half-dozen attempts ' at Ghana's Nkrumah. But the pattern of violence has been such that the inference is that the bad guys win, when logic and legislation fail. Up to now, until recently, we have avoided the kind of bloody mass action which leaves its im mortal stain on both sides. Indignity Suffered The American Negro has iuffer- ed great indignity since the day uie tirst Yankee slave trader im ported the first Yoruba or what ever to this continent. Most white Americans recognize this, and are hopeful of remedy. As a remarkably fine editorial in the Wall Street Journal was saying the other day: "The inevi table problems of change have turned chiefly on the speed and manner of desegregation. The Ne groes have had more than a gener al feeling working for them; they have had the specific advocacy of the most influential commentators, religious leaders and government officials. "Especially since the 1954 Su preme Court decision, they have had the nation's legal system in deed, the whole instrumentality of government geared to " the achievement of their objectives. This is why we believe that they should now be wary of losing the pnre of the world s good opinion, j The Journal points out rightly i iii:it t lie mobilization of a couple of thousand organized people be they women ban-the-bomb march ers or Negroes with a cause which winds up in stoning the police without some civic attempt at control, might be only an argu ment for anarchy. And that while jailing little children is a sorry spectacle, it might first be asked who threw the children in against the police? It's easy lo understand that Ne gro leaders feel they are gaining so much that now is the time to strike for everything they've hun gered for, but if they use planned violence in city after city they stand to slow down their cause rather than speed it up. The Journal concludes, and it cannot be said better:. "If mob vi olence is a last resort, it is no less true that a decent respect to the opinions of mankind is one of the most powerful arms in the Ne groes' arsenal. We hope that, un der the spell of a dangerous and uncertain weapon, they mil not let go of that prized possession." Amen, brother. C0Ofrfnt, 1H1 by Un.lod f aahira Synd , Inc.) By Charles V. Stanton Quality Of The Legislature Called Lacking In Efficiency The acrimonious end to the recent session of the Oregon Legislature leaves little room for pride on the part of the average Oregonian. The adjournment was marked by bitter ness, quarreling, wrangling and name-calling. There was some good legislation, some bad legislation, a great amount of political brawling, irresponsibility, dis sension. Yet there also was a lot of serious work done by committees and some very close application to certain problems by the assembly. Oregon voters at the last elec tion gave the state's Legislators permission to fix their own salar ies. Writing in the Oregon Statesman, Salem, former Gov. Charles Sprague says: "Can't help but won der what the vote would be if the public were to get another chance to vote on the salaries of legisla tors." . I seriously question that the Leg islature gave the people of Ore gon a satisfactory return for the faith the voters placed in legisla tive responsibility. It seems to me that the quality of the Oregon Legislature has de teriorated in a frightening fashion. Perhaps my memory is at fault, but it seems to me that the intro duction of politics into the Legisla ture as a major issue only a few years ago has greatly impaired the efficiency of the legislative body. Merit Emphasized For a good many years party affiliation didn't make much dif ference in Oregon politics. We had governors from both parties. Our legislature was made up of both Demociats and Republicans. They considered legislation on merit rather than on party support. I'll admit that a good piece of legislation seldom gets through en tirely on its merits. The better the legislation, the better it. is as a piece of trading stock. Few leg islators ever will admit that they trade votes. In fact, they'll make vigorous denial as a rule. But any qualified observer has a far dif ferent opinion. However, it has been only in late years thai political rfiliation en tered into legislative considerations as a guiding factor. Now the legislature divides along party lines. Legislation is consid ered more from the standpoint of party influence than actual merit. Republicans blame Democrats; WASHINGTON WINDOW COP Senators' Principle On Civil Rights Is Weak By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The weasel-worded Republican statement of civil rights prin ciples achieved last week by G.O.P. senators says little and means less. The Senate Republi cans committed themselves to a series of generalized statements and some applause for their party and for Abraham Lincoln. The moment of truth for Senate Republicans will not come until they must stand up and be count ed for or against the Kennedy Administration's civil rights pro posals. The Republican Party po sition on the issue of civil rights will not be fixed, however, until the Republicans have nominated presidential candidate and tne nominee says where he stands. But the nominee's stand won't mean anything, either, unless he is a man of courage. There will be a Republican platform, of course, and a Demo cratic platform, too. But plat forms are shady documents writ ten more to appease pressure groups and to gull the voters than to commit the party to any course of action whatever. Platforms A Sham Party platforms have come to be both a shame and a sham. conceived in conspiracy to delude and defraud the voters. If this were not true the civil rights showdown now approaching in Congress would have taken place during the first weeks of the Ken nedy Administration. Both parties wrote into their I960 platforms noisy claims of undying love and understanding for the Negro and his problems. The Democrats out-promised the Republicans on civil rights, words being cheap and the North ern Negro vote being necessary to the reborn Democratic Party if it hopes to elect a president of the United States. It did not occur to WITH THE NEW tichtt kxth in frtfit f Hvwartf'i Mtn'i Wtjfif n tntirt family can tttfi4 Hr nlf ... . June 15 - 8pm June 16 - 1:30pm Democrats blame Republicans. Each party seeks to maneuver the other into unpopular positions. In this connection the Daily As- torian says: One of the more ridiculous aspects of the wrangling over taxes was the spectacle of Re publicans and Democrats jock eying to pin on each other the responsibility for higher taxes. It was rather infantile politics at a time when responsible leadership was needed on both sides. Other observers contend that neither house of the Legislature had adequate leadership. There was much confusion, conflict, lack of discipline. Politics wasn't confined only to the membership of the Legislature. Gov. Hatfield apparently is most ambitious politically. He submitted a very elaborate program. He how "points with pride" to the fact that a large part of his legislative suggestions was adopted into legis lation. But it also is a fact that ITatfiM ic an amhltinllc RAnnhli j can and that he faced a Legisla- ture with Democratic majority. Ideas Founder Thus, despite his claim of better than 60 per cent on his program, the fact remains that his proposals for a Department of Natural Re sources, tax reforms, civilian de fense, more money for education, net receipts tax, etc.,- were wreck ed on the political reefs. The pro posals adopted were chiefly of mi nor importance while the major ideas foundered. Our policy of introducing party politics into state legislation hasn't given us any improvement in gov ernmental conduct, in my opinion. I feel it's time to get back to the old practice of considering men and measures on their merit rather than on party allegiance and poli cy. the Senate Republicans last week to refer to their own 1960 Repub lican platform for a statement of civil rights pledges principles. There are three or four pages of civil rights pledges and prin ciples in the Republican platform, the lot having proved to be worth somewhat less than the paper it is printed on. So long as the vot ers are willing to accept cam paign promises but do not com pel performance after the elec tion, politicians of both parties will continue I" defraud the citi zens by making promises they have no intention of keeping. Campaign Pledges Ignered A lot of presidential campaign oratory is the same kind of politi cal guff. But a presidential can didate is available to be chal lenged after a political campaign. lie can be cornered and his cam paign baloney can ha repeated In him. This happened once to the late Wendell L. Willkie after he was defeated in 1940 for the presidency. In a senate commit tee hearing. Willkie ''was con fronted with some choice pas sages of his campaign speeches and asked for comment. "That was just campaign ora tory," Willkie replied, and no one in the room or in the nation was either surprised or outraged. So it is with civil rights. Senate Republicans came up with a lot of double tail: in the form of a statement of civil rights princi I pies. But they ignored wholly their own party's civil rights ; pledges in the 1960 platform. The Democrats under Presi dent Kennedy suddenly have dis ! covered a civil rights crisis in the United States. So. they decide that the emergency required them to make good on some of the 1960 platform promises they so happily made to win Negro votes in New York, Pennsylvania, Il linois and elsewhere. FAMILY PLAN s 5.00
