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"And I ry to hang en to This Till You Get Back!" . Tlic ' Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton Jtt 4 Th Newt-Review, Roitburg, Or. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1963 Government Wins Assent -- .rt' - - n: .(-.. Douglas County is starting to blossom . with green mats, decals and bumper stickers which say simply: "Welcome to Oregon." It has joined the rest of the slate in an increasing consciousness that Oregon should try to become the most hospitable state in the country. The reason: People like to visit friendly places. Being friendly is natural for DouglHS County, but there's reason to think a lit tle extra effort can pay some big divi dends. There are the natural and fulfilling div idends of being kind and helpful to peo ple. But the state Tourist Information Division and the Roseburg area Cham ber of Commerce believe strongly that such friendliness will also pay off in more ' tangible benefits. Last year $217 million was spent in Ore gon by tourists who came from other slates. In addition, an estimated $184 mil lion was spent by Oregonians themselves on vacations within the state. The visit ors from out of state stayed an average three days in the slate. The Travel Information Division feels this is a good indication the state is doing well in attracting tourists. The next step is to keep them here longer. It estimates that if every one of the visitors who came to the state last year had stayed one more day, they would have spent another $57,383,343. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce also has some pretty impressive statistics about the impact of the tourist industry on a community. It says that if a community can at ,ract just a couple dozen tourists a day throughout the year, it is comparable to acquiring a new manufacturing industry with an annual payroll of $100,000. The manager of the Medford Chamber of Commerce puts it another way. He says 100 tourist fanillies visiting the THE LIGHTER SIDE: New By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPU Accord- Ing to a magazine article pub- lishcd this week, the United States is cxnericnclng an inven tion explosion of even greater magnitude than the population ex plosion. Our old Yankee ingenuity is aparking new ideas so fast that the U.S. Patent Office can't keep up with them. At last count, it was almost 200,000 applications behind. To reallio how really big the backlog is, one must consider a alatemcnt made by Patent Com missioner David L. Ladd in an interview with U.S. News & World Hcport. Ladd said the problem could not be solved by hiring more em ployes. 1 never thought I'd live to ice the day whan a bureaucrat would make a statement like that. Picks Up List It shook mo up so much that I stopped by the Patent Office and picked up a copy of It week ly list of new Inventions. I could immmcdiately understand why Ladd was fooling desperate. During that one wock alone, his office issued more than 000 pat ents, the scope and variety ot which would make your head spin except for a few inventions that apparently were designed to make your head stop spinning. Here are just a few of the de vices that wero awarded patents In that period: A disposable paint brush; a machine (or skinning fish; an ap paratus for measuring the length ef trousers; a retractable awning that you can run out over your auto's windshield when It slnrls to rain. A self-cleaning ash tray; a hair brush that is grounded so that It removes static electricity troin hair; a serving spoon that you can cat when you have finished serving. New Mousetrap There was even a new, though not necessarily better, mousetrap. If my understanding ot the way it works is correct, it lures a mouse into a container where he eats so much cheese he becomes too fat to Ret back out again I assume the mouse stays there MS S. (E. Main St. Rouburg, Ortaon trnttfid at tecond clatl matter May 1, H, ! the poil otftcu it Rotrburf, Of Con, under act of Mirxn J, lirj. Pubiiirtao Dally Ectet Sunday hv NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO V. Brenner Publlthtf ,.:z. N;"i"r." v .b.,r "m Auau Bureau m circulation ana tin oreacn Nevnvaper ruBlllhert Mioelalion. National Aoni,in, w,wtii I, ! Nawteaptr Anvtrtning sarvica Co , (tun i ouiiomg, san Francltco, Calil. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 Carrier and Rosatmrg p o ftori 1 month, 11,15, s montht, lift 5ft, ) year, fit 00. 8 Mall In Oregon: 1 montli, tl.Jji 3 "wnthi, H so, t monlhi, It oo 1 year 11.00. Oulaioe H Oregon: 1 month, II is; rnorilha, ti ll, rnonthl, no , i year It Pays To Be A Good Host Ideas Bog Patenting Office , until Hie ally diet and lack of exercise raises his cholesterol content to the point where ne suf fcrs a fatal heart attack To my mind, however, nothing points up the complexity of mod ern life quite so much as a new type of brassiere invented by a lady of Bridgeport, Conn. This dovice is described as having aeven segments, one being a pair of shoulder straps, each connected at its forward end to said upwardly directed apex of a respective transition member and connected at its rearward end to the upper edge of said band at a point adapted to bo disposed at the back of the wearer." All of that just so some doll can look good in a sweater. No wonder the patent office is swamped. Opinions From Referral Action Urged By Yoncalla Resident To The Editor: In an editorial last Friday you said killing this legislative budget will result in fiscal wreckage if it Is referred to the people and they turn it down. Now what happens if elementary and secondary education is slowed down one year? What will the long range harm be If our system of higher education has to just hold the line for a year? When a business, large or small, finds itself so messed up that it doesn't know If it is making or losing money what does It do? 1 know of a firm in Kugeno which was a subsidiary of a largo cor poration that the corporation's auditors found In that condition. Did they study It until next year and then make recommendations? No, they shut down all opcraUons for a week while the auditors dug iu anu me management figured 3n 2)aiJ Tiktrt Irem the Kiel YEARS AGO July 10, m An unusual morning thunder storm occurred in Roseburg this morning. The storm was local in character and is thought to have icit oniv i. ; ley. The thunder was accomnanled bv a heaiv ri,,im.,,.. ..V. " nowlPour of rain ap- proximately .15 Inches of rain fall- ing in almost halt an hour. 15 YEARS AGO July 10. 1911 Purchase ol property on Rose . ,""l "?m the Junjoriwiih five heavy explosions with .' V.K" ::.n' '"mni 10 ""d 'r playground purposes wai an-1 Rogue River Valley are equivalent in in come to 31 average truckloads of logs. Now, how do we as individuals do our part to boost that growing industry which is becoming more and more important to our economic lives? The Travel Information Division points out that, ironically, our status of having one of the best highway systems in the United States is one of the biggest prob lems. It seems to lure the tourist to move farther and faster. It works against the desire to stop and see the wonderful scenery and sites of interest. The division wants to gear Oregonians to doing the tourist a favor slowing him down. It contends that once a tourist is slowed down and routed to a local attrac tion or event, he invariably is grateful to the good host who convinced him "to stop awhile." This is the approach being taken by the county with its information booth at Charles V. Stanton Park. But it's ulti mate benefits can only be achieved if everyone in Douglas County is willing to do his part in the visitor-host program. We have plenty to "sell" the tourist. We have sights, sounds and activities to please practically every taste. The green welcome signs have set the stage to get those tourists to stop to en joy these attractions. Our job now is to become acquainted with our own county, so we can answer the questions about these attractions. We must be genuinely courteous. If we don't know the answers to the tourist's questions, we should di rect him to the source of that informa tion. By your friendly and helpful actions, you are doing both him and yourself a favor. He will have added to his vacation enjoyment, and you will have helped in- xi i r.. rnMo tui-A crease trie uiuuine iium uicgvn o mnu largest industry. It pays to be a good host. - Ml we Almanac By United Press International Today la Wednesday, July 10, the 191st day of 1963 with 174 to follow. The moon Is approaching its last quarter. . The morning start are Venus Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day In history: In 1890, Wyoming was admitted to the Union as the 44th state. In 1908, William Jennings Bry an was nominated by the Demo crats as their presidential candi date for the third time. In 1960, Russia shot down a United Stales plane in the Soviet Arctic. In 1962, the Tclstar satellite re- layod television pictures from the United States to fcurope, and American received clear pictures back from Britain and France. A thought for the day Presi dent Abraham Lincoln said: "Towering genius disdains a beat en path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." nut the trouble and devised a solu tion. That is businesslike. Can't government be run in a business liko way? A few years ago I understood from reading The News-Review that the City of Roseburg was in an awful financial mess. Did Rose burg wait until next election to do something about it? The procedure followed was called by your news paper "an austerity program" and it went into effect immediately. Correct me if I am wrong. Did this wreck Ituscburg's economy? Did it ruin the educational system of the district? Did it ruin the city and do untold harm? if It didn't break the city, why should it have to break the state? Last election the people of this slate gave our legislators a tree hand to set their own salaries. This brought on two things: First, instead of raising their salaries an amount that the taxpayers could stand this year with future Increas es that would bring their salaries up to a fair level in a few years Gone ef The Newi-IUW.w -i.,r-n-ru'L ijvi juiji.r ijr ijrijiij'ijai nounced loday by the School Board. The lot, loo - by 120 feet in sire will be leveled and otherwise im proved to make it available for use. It YEARS AGO July 10, 153 A black pall of acrid sulphurous smoke spread for hundreds of miles over and around Anchorage, Alas ka. today, and a thick bianket of: . k m.ttmA t 1: I .! .inn, i.un iium me toiranici eruptions. Touched off early Thurs day, three active peaks let loose smoke columns reaching urm.rd at least 40,001) feet. .'J 4". , -,-.. '111'.! I ( II J li W I I Ml I I ' iT '1 J VI.. J '. T Lf 4 1 1 I I O ' By ROBERT C. RUARK Sitting in the next room as I scrawl these words with my goose ouill pen. which I din in a mixture of lampblack and water, is an old portable record-player, which cost like 60 bucks over 10 years ago and has never busted once. It has withstood the importuning, if not the downright onslaught, of variable Spanish electric power. for all these years, without blow ing either its top or its tubes. It still spins with great good will at both 33 and 45 rpm. I understand tins machine, it will sort o come when I call. Stacked in odd corners are oth- -III The Day's News- By FRANK The big news today? I reckon it's still the communist pow-wow in Moscow. What goes on there? There are two angles to the news. One is that Premier Khrushchev is meeting with former NATO Secretary Taiil Henri Spaak, who a Belgian. The meeting is said to be in the Ukraine. The Ukraine is one of the Soviet Socialist Re publics. The official story is that he is remaining far from Moscow as a calculated SNUB to Old Mao and his Chinese communists, who have Readers and would not be burden on the taxpayer all at once, they played hog and did it all in one big push. That one act brought our economy to the breaking point. Then, sec ond, they raised most top state salaries, plus increasing the slate employment by 1,800 persons. These powers did not go with the authority for their pay hike. But this they did, which further strain ed an all ready overstrained budget. Now this advice to kill the re ferral petitions is just some more "liberal" philsopophy that very neatly nullifies the conservatives' efforts and seeks to abrogate the citiicna' constitutional rights. If we wait for the next legislature, then the raises in top state salaries will all lie in etfect, the 1.800 per sons will be on the public pay roll, and most of the money will be spent, plus the legislative sal aries being increased. Everybody knows it Is almost Impossible to "cut" any govern ment spending once it is in cnVct. However, by prompt action it is often possible to stop proposals Irorn becoming expenditures. Time is of the essence and that is why the people should use their con stitutional privilege of referral ac tion. It is one of the few rights of freedom the people have left. Let's use it, before we lose it! Stacy Adams Box 427 Vuncalla, Ore. ONI LOOK IS ENOUGH SAN FRANCISCO (I'Plj Seems you can sometimes tight City Hall alter all. frank Wilson's ear collided i with Mayor George Christopher's! car June 27. Wilton ritnH f,ir!. ...... (ailing to yield the right of wav r . ramp up lor trial niestlay before Municipal Judge Bernard Ulick-jGen. "' . .; police reports and said: lase : dismissed. Playing Should er machines, of much more recent vintage and much higher prices, looking like the carcasses of dead mastodons. These record players will do everything but cut your hair and walk the baby, supposed ly. The only trouble with them is that they're always in hospital for further surgery. They start fast, but they're no good in the mud, and they always manage to cast a shoe or lug out at the turns. Power On Wane And this is simple stuff. I am not an esoteric music lover. All I ask is a comfortable amount of noise to drown out the screams of the wounded at cocktail parties, or JENKINS come to Moscow for a conference with their Russian communist part ners. Is that a snub? Well, how would you feel about it if you had arranged a big confer ence on the good of the order with a person you were supposed to regard as an associate and he ran out on you deliberately? You would be miffed. But As Hamlet remarked to his tin. cle: 'One mav smile and smile: and be a villian. At least, I'm sure it may he so in Denmark. It mav also be so in the com munist hcirarchy. Old Kroosh and Old Mao may be putting on a show for us in the hope that we will let down our guard so they can hit us when we aren't looking. What do our diplomats (our pro fessionals in this sometimes com plicated business of diplomatic in tercourse) tnink of it? Well, they have their fingers crossed. They point out this morning that these current Moscow IDEOLOGI CAL talks (the diplomats also use big words) are concerned with the MEANS rather than the ENDS of communist doctrines. Moscow and Peking, these West ern diplomats say this morning, agree tnat communism should wipe out Western capitalism. . .and so their dispute is over whether this should he accomplished through Moscow's policy of PEACEFUL COMPETITION or Peking's policy of armed revolution which means KILL OEF the capitalists and take over their world. So They add Khrushchev might pursue h 1 s talks with Western leaders on "kev issues of tension." but he wouldn't lose sight of the Marxist-Leninist goal of COMMUNIST CONTROL OF THE WORLD. We must always remember that in Lenin's Ten Commandments of Revolution. Commandment No. 2; reads: "There are no morals ini nnlilife " I Commandment No. 6 reads: "Truth does not count unless it, serves and end. Commandment .No. 9 is "Promises are like pie crusts: Made to be Broken." And here is Commandment No. 10: "Scheme. . .tigiag. . .retreat. . . anything to hasten the coming of communism. We mustn't permit nurselve, to forget that Khrushchev is a com - munist PLANS SDEN VISIT STOCKHOLM Sufrlen H PIi Karle (Ulmore Wheeler, il' S Artnv rhlef nl et.ff it Sweden Aug. 1M7 a, a guVst nr the Swedish army, it an - nounced Tuesday. Records Be Simple to help me over a tough evening of copyreading. The electric pow er in Spain is mainly on the wane, when it is not on the wax, and is prone to make a highly strung gadget nervous. But even with a regular power flow, I would never attempt to compete in the modern record playing race. You do not simply play a record today. You have to take a two-year course at M.I.T. before they will sell you a really hip modern noise-maker. This ma chine cannot be bought whole, like an automobile. It must be PUT TOGETHER, or other people's children will sneer at your chil dren. 1 ha"e before me a prospectus for an "XAM High Fidelity Loud speaker System," which was just flown in by two unfrocked astro nauts. At random, I quote you some technical terms: It Reels Mind "Tweeter, woofer, rumble filter, speaker impedance switch, 50-15,-000, cps cartridge, mode selector, phase switch, stero preamplifier," plus some old-timey things like watts and amps. 1 would delve further but it reels the. mind. From other information I see that "some of the microphones used, representing the best of all manufacturers available, are the RCA-44BK, Tclcfunken U-47, West ern Electric 1142A, Altec 630B." Furthermore, "the edited tape is re-recorded into a master disc from a Fail-child type machine through Pultec equalizers and a Mcintosh 200-watt amplifier to a specially built cutting head mount ed on a Scully automatic lathe." Strictly between me and my flux density, if you won't rat on me to the people that hang out with the center-pole diameters in cone resonance headquarters, I am go ing to lie down on my wire-wound L-pad and turn on Old Faithful again and play a little scratchy Bing Crosby. Old Faithful may not have much in the way of sound- pressure level characteristics you know, the woofer SPL of 90 db at 3 feet when cnergued by a 2V signal in its frequency range in an anechoic environment but it plays in the rain and can hit with men on base. Gobbledtgook Meaningless As a boy who remembers that you used to have to crank the things so that Victor's fox terrier could hear his master's voice sing ing "Three O'clock in the Morn ing," this new-fangled gobbledc gook Is as meaningless as the av erage briefing from Washington, and uses much the same language. Mama didn't raise her boy to be no electrical engineer, and I'm too old to go back to college to learn how to spin a record which will play "Houn' Dawg" right back to me. except for the scratch in its defective surface. My cross-over characteristic will never bridge my gap depth, and If they throw any more of this stuff at me, back to radio I go, and wreck the record industry. Play, Don. (Copyright. 1U by United Feature Synd., Inc.) Church Publication Board Tax-Exempt LSAI'EM "-'P'1 Oregon Tax - our Judge Peter Gunnar ruled Tuesday that the Board of Publi cation of the Methodist Church is a tax-exempt religious corpora tion under the Oregon eorporate excise tax law. The ruling reverses a State Tax X" . .ul UKa "rm : i".1 "r8",,""on " 8UDJ"ct j to taxation. The Board of Publication of the i Methodist Church is a not-for-i profit corporation operated by Mhe .Methodist Church as a print ling, publishing and book selling i concern. !or , Z .ZKV t , because it competes with private ; enterprise. By Reward, Threat Tactics Does the federal government have the right either to pun ish or reward cooperation? If there is disagreement with federal policies and prac tices, is it a prop;r use of public funds to dip largess from the pork barrel for those who sanction the disputed pol icies while denying equal distribution to those who object? A case in point is found in the widespread disapproval of the administration's civilian defense program. . There is a great fear that states, such as Oregon, refus- ing to participate in the program, will be denied govern ment contracts. Consideration reportedly also is i being given a proposal that federal funds shall be denied states, coun- ties or communities which dispute the federal government's :..:! rights program. Regardless of the right or the wrong of the civil rights contro versy, there is a great resentment in southern states concerning hav ing compliance forced upon them. These states contend that the de termination of civil rights is a matter for the states, not the fed eral government, and they object to having the "law of the land' imposed upon them by the cold steel of bayonets. The South once fought the world's bloodiest war, based on ratio of casulaties to the number of men engaged, over this very issue. The proposal recently has been heard that there's to be no more federal money spent on defense contracts in states failing to con cede to the federal program. Growers Threatened When wheat growers recently re jected the administration's allot ment plan, these growers were threatened, before the referendum with a dumping of surpluses and a ueiiDcrate and forced reduction table. The offer was made at a in wheat prices if they didn't con- j meeting arranjed by federal ne form. The administration reported-! gotiators Monday night. The firm ly even bought radio time with 1 employs 55 men. taxpayer money to threaten wheat -Ine Northwest lumber dispute gl0Wcls- went into its 35lh day today with Here in Oregon our wheat grow-, no other major developments ex ers, through their association, pected until at least Thursday. The spent many months and large sums LSW is scheduled to meet with of moncy to develop wheat mar-! the Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Port kets in the Orient. They now dis- land Wednesday, but no further pose of a large quantity of wheat strike action is expected until aft m the Philippines, Japan and else-! cr the union's executive council where. Now, because growers meets in Portland Thursdav. didn't go along with the adminis-j stl.ike, and i0ekoiil in ih in !ra"0ll? S " J? d S ! dustry liaTe" Idled "'about m being dumped into the foreign - . U-.,....o ..,.tv markets our Oregon wheat grow ers developed as a private deal. Commenting on the defeat of the Freeman plan, "in the face of an administration threat," the Na tional Association of Manufactur ers reports. Surplus Threatening "The existence of enormous stocks of government owned sur plus wheat hangs as a threat over the commodity markets, and there li.T. ..iSiU'ia"C.C,th,a.L1J,e.y williber of workers idled in ilfe dispute not oe mimpeu ana drive prices down to a ruinous level. Pait nm-. formance of the Agriculture De partment suggests that such sales might be made to 'teach farme.'s a lesson'." A number of years ago an ef fort was made to create a Colum bia Valley Authority. One of the provisions of the federal act was the power to reward counties which participated and to withhold funds and aid from counties which resisted. But, in addition to threats and fears of reprisal for non-cooperation, there's reward for coopera tion. The Neubcrgcr billboard legisla tion, for example, provides that those states cooperating in the i government's interstate highway construction, by barring billboards along Freeways, shall be reward ed wilh additional federal money for construction purposes. Bribe Possible Many people contend this con stitutes a bribe. On the other hand, the proponents say that if the fed eral government is to appropriate money to be used in road con struction it should have something JULY PAINT WE GIVE TOP QUALITY Oil Base, Exterior vkml REG. $7.50 Gal. 3-Srep Aluminum 70R STEP STOOL u 1 648 S.E. ROSE ST. Ph. 672-1616 Horn. 0nte) ft Operated to about the roads it, moncy wm Jci DUji(j . 1 . ., : ' II we are iu ai-cupi una jJtciui&e, -t M ...:,u ih.i kA eral government has the right to both punish and reward, of what virility is local government? Yamhill Ply Firm Rejects Union Bid By United Press International The Yamhill Plywood Co. at McMinnville has rejected a union offer to resume negotiations while its members go back to work, Business Agent Ted Aaron of Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union Local 3-213 said Tuesday. The union went on strike June 6, but the company resumed full operation 20 days later with non union workers. Aaron said the union offered to remove its pickets and send its men back to work if the company would return to the bargaining .,., Meanwhile, 1,000 Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union members walked off their jobs at St. Regis Paper Co. plants at Libby and Troy, Mont., this morning-. The action came after a contract ses sion broke up Monday night. Earl Hartley, executive secre tary of the union, said another 400 will walk off at Klickitat, Wash., "in a day or two" unless some agreement is reached. TIlA llnnl.n. rl.il.n II... I lo about 21m . .,wu. The LSW was scheduled to meet with Georgia - Pacific Corp. in Portland Wednesday and then hold an executive council meeting Thursday in Portland. . Mark Asks Observance Of Captive Nation Week SALEM (UPI)-Gov. Mark Hat field has urged Oregonians to observe (he period July 14-20 as Captive Nations Week. "This week affords an oppor tunity for all Americans to re affirm their determination to honor agreements to work cease lessly for the freedom of those peoples of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, cast Germany, Estonia, Hugary, Latvia, Lith nana, Poland and Romania. We owe these people no less. "The captive peoples of central and eastern Europe have never ceased to strive for freedom, ac tively when the opportunity pre sented itself, massively when ne cessity demanded," Hatfield said. U-SAVE STAMPS Gal. mm NOW Sj3
