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or i a i P a e Mined Waters mm?. 14 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. THURSDAY JULY 18, 1963 Keep Fire Away From Utility Poles Bonneville Power Administration has issued a bulletin urging all landowners conducting field burning operations to take every precaution to prevent their fires from igniting poles carrying high voltage lines. This is an excellent piece of advice and warning. It concerns not only the Bonneville lines but all utility poles. The cost to utility companies of poles lost through careless burning each year iR enormous in the Pacific Northwest. Bonneville estimates expense associ ated with the replacement of a single pole at approximately $1,000. This is moder ate, it would seem, when one considers the cost of the pole, loading at the storage dock, hauling, expense of linemen to clear the old pole, installation of cross arms, replacement of pole and rewiring. Many of our utilities have their poles situated adjacent to roads. Often they are located in sites surrounded with tall grass or bushes. The location follows roadways because roads make possible the move ment of equipment and supplies. Some of our major power lines, however, take a cross-country route, which adds to the cost of replacement. Such lines, though, usually are hung on high towers and are not as subject to burning as are the poles carrying the feeder lines in the rural district. Bonneville's bulletin urges an ad equate firebreak around the base of each pole before a landowner starts burning pasture or brush land. It also is recom mended that the lower part of a pole be thoroughly wetted down before and after burning. Pole fires, it is stated, can be started by direct flame contact or by sparks lodging in cracks in the poles. Poles will vary greatly as to their ignition point and flammability depending on age, specie of wood, preservative treatment, moisture content and the weather. A safety precaution is added : "Any person attempting to extinguish a fire on a power pole should be extreme ly careful to avoid using any spray or high pressure of water within 15 feet of any conductor or power line. There is danger that the water stream might con tact the high-voltage line and allow the electric current to be conducted to the person holding the hose." It is recommended that the rural fire department or some protective organiza tion be called to assist in extinguishing the blaze. With the great number of wooden tow ers, power and telephone poles scattered throughout all of Douglas County, the Bonneville bulletin carries a message of particular importance to local residents. War Waged Against Quackery Why are people so vulnerable to quack- cry when it comes to health matters? That's what the Second National Con gress on Medical Quackery will seek to determine when it meets in Washington Oct. 25-26, under sponsorship of the Food and Drug Administration and the Ameri can Medical Assn. What follows naturally is the second goal for the meetings: to determine what is needed in health education to help the public protect itself against charlatans who prey on the ailing. In 1961, the First National Congress on Medical Quackery sparked action at stale and community levels to move against the unscrupulous who fatten their purses at the expense of those pitifully eager to grasp at any straw to regain health. Newspapers have been in the forefront of those spreading light for their readers on the subject of medical quackery, and various government departments a n d health agencies have long been waging the war against the quacks. Whatever the forthcoming meetings produce in the way of weaponry against the charlatan is all to the good. V a mmm mmmmmm. 'fx$4MjiJ v.,..-..- .v -,.r- ,i IWjWWWWBWW-i:, M.',Mir7OTWW - WT ' Will UU .T THE LIGHTER SIDE: Analogies Helpful In Money Measure mm WASHINGTON WINDOW Ay: I A Public Needs More Facts On Nuclear Tests Issue By LVLE C. WILSON United Pr International Tlie American people urgently need to know moro of tlie official facts and opinions about tlio pro posed nan on nuclear weapons tosts. It is tlie American people who must make the final judgment wnetner a test Dan on tno Dams now proposed would be in tiicir in terest or against them. They dare not make a mistake. Several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appeared early this year before the Senate Armed Services Committee. More titan a fortnight ago, the joint chiefs pre sented to tlie Senate prepared ness subcommittee a report on the proposed test ban treaty. Thry are against it. That much has been leaked. But why they are opposed and all of the questions thereto related are facts being withheld from the American people. Some of the top brass have testified before Senate groups. Their testimony likewiso is secret. ParhlDl Toa Gfninui Perhaps President Kennedy Is being too generous in making con cessions to tlto Soviet Union. If The Almanac By United Pratt International Today is Thursday, July 18, tlie 109th day ot 1003 with lti to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star Is Mars. On this duy in hlstorv: In 1014, the United States Army created an aviation section with in the Signal Corps. In 1932. Uie United States and Canada signed a trrntv i .in.-L op the St. Lawrence 'River into an ocean lane. In 104U, President Franklin 1). Kuoscvclt was unanimously num. .nated for a third firm hv tlm Democratic Convention meeting in A thought for the dav Greek philosopher Plato said: "0( all the animals, the boy is the most unmanagcauie. 1 so, who lias a better right to know about that man the Ameri can people? Throe Democratic senators, all members of tlio armed services committee, wrote to President Kenncdv earlier this year warning in substance that further test ban concessions would be unacceptable to the U.S. Sen- ale. I lie text or that letter also is a state secret tno. The senators were Chairman ltichard B. Rus sell. Ga.. Stuart Symington. Mo.. and Henry M. Jackson, Wash. When such members of tie President's own party become un easy about concessions to the So viet Union, tlio average American reasonably might also become un easy. The average American citi zen lias been showered with mas sive propaganda in behalf of a nuclear test ban. Good Book If citizens would care to in form themselves of the argu ments against a test ban on the basis now proposed, there is a good book available. Intel mem citizens will want to read this book whether they are for or against a quickie test ban. The title is "Nuclear Ambush," by Earl Voss, published by Henry Kcgncry Co. of Chicago, at 5tt.su. A bargain. Voss is a veteran Washington newsman. Dr. Willard Libby, University of California, in an introduction wroto: "Mr, Voss lolls the story of the soviet arrcstallon of our nuclear arms development program for tlirco whole years and our con sequent gift of an opportunity to eaten up, which tncy nave accented. I He nuclear test ban Is a good example of Soviet tactical opera tions and 'Nuclear Ambush' is a very good description of how they have succeeded in this activity." Pros and Cent Voss explores the weight of the fall-out argument against the weight of the argument that a test-ban is, in fact, a Soviet am bush. He recalls Dr. Edward Tel lcr's statement of Feb. 1, 1963 that a test ban: Would prevent vital improve mcnt in U.S. atomic explosives. Would not interfere with So viet Union atomic progress. Might endanger the NATO al liance. Teller said the Chinese would not be restrained even though the Soviet Union signed an absolute test ban. But, the United States would be expected to persuade France to accept the ban. "The Russians may desire a ban for that very reason," Teller wrote. "They arc rupportcd by widespread public (U.S.) clamor. I hope that patriotic congressmen of both parties will resist the pressure of a public irightened by crises and misled by the mir age of peace. Days News uy Frank Jenkins The big news? ' As this is written, it seems still to be the alleged split between the Russians and the Red Chinese. At the moment, there anuears to have i been a definite and WIDE split ! ana tne itussians appear to be re lieved and RELAXED by what has happened. The Red Chinese anuear to be glum and angry. m me Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton By DICK WEST u-Knivr.TO.M (LTD It seems like only yesterday, or maybe last Tuesday, that kindly statisticians were trying to help us understand a million dollars. It was commonly supposed that a million dollars was too large a sum for us to comprehend all bv ourselves, so these statisti cians would undertake to explain it in terms we could grasp. I don't recall the exact dimen sions of a million dollars, but the analogies they used went some thing like this: A million dollars laid end to end would reach from Hominy Kails. W.Va., to Grit. Tex., or if placed one on top of the other would form a stack five miles higher than a giraffe on tiptoes. I'm sure they meant well, out, frankly, these comparisons were never of much help to me in comprehending a million bucks. Whenever I tried to get a men ial picture of dollar bills stretched out from Hominy Falls to Grit, my mind would take a wrong turn on the outskirts of Chili, Wis. Perhaps if they had used S5 bills, or hud placed the dollar bills side by side rather than end to end, 1 could have grasped it. But 1 doubt it. At any rate. 1 have gone through life withuut having a very firm concept of a million dollars. And now I learn that I am hopelessly behind the times. In a press release issued this week. Rep. Thomas M. Pelly, a Washington Republican and stat vistician, endeavors to help us un derstand a billion dollars. Apparently someone raised the ante while I was trying to find inv wav back from Hominy Falls. Pelly wrote that no one "is capabic of conveying in ordi nary, simple and understandable and graphic wurds just how im- , mense, how almost uiiineasm a- ! blv vast is a billion dullars." 1 Nevertheless, this did not deter : him from giving it a go. I As one illustration. Pelly noted ' that "with one billion dollars you could buy 500.000 new autonio- i biles each costing $2,000." 1 llaybe so, but you would need Un awfully big garage. ; "Placed bumper to bumper (htise cars would extend 1.5U2 miles, about the distance from Cleveland, Ohio, to Salt Lake jCity, Utah," Pelly continued. I On that point, at least, he speaks my language. I can readi-K- vUmilbo a traffic jam stretch ing from Ohio to Utah even if I can't envision a million dollars lend to end. I "One billion dollars in dollar 1 bills would cover a building lot that is 51 feet wide and 219 feel long a little more than a quar- ; ter acre to a depth of 3 feet 7 inches." Pelly added. 1 That might not be a bad idea. We could use it as a parking lot for some of those 500,000 cars. Flegel Will Head State Committee SALEM (UPD-Sen. Al Flegel, P-Roscburg, was named chairman i of the Legislative Interim Coin j mittee on Education which held its organizational meeting here to day. ! Selected vice chairman was Rep. Edward Branchficld, R-Med-ford. Flegel said the major job of tlie committee would be a "look-see" j at the Stale Department of Edu i cation. He noted there has been ! confusion over the department's ! work in vocational education and i rehabilitation. i Tlie committee also plans to look into the state's community j college program and the recodifi cation of the state's school laws. Russians Cannot Be Trusted To Keep Word On Test Ban Just why the United States should be so :ill-fired anxious to get :i treaty with Russia barring nuclear bomb tests beats me. Not long ago we had an editorial cartoon showing Averill Harriman getting ready for a trip to talk over the pro posed treaty wun tne Russians, resident Kennedy was in These dispatches say: "Joking and bubblinu with thusiusm, Premier Nikita Khrush-: holding a shirt and lolling Harriman to bring it back with v.ituv muiiwiicu UiU rviLTlllliU LillKS mm on a nuclear test ban agreement I n,,. .,i., u,,,.,.,-,,,,,,, 1,i tl,u l,u .,,. , VfisterdJIV n a lln-nn nnrl a l.,,lf ."v- " iiui viuli. uihivs m hour conference with special U.S. i "nKer ot losing its shirt if Russia is trusted, and British envoys. He jovially i International events are shaping up to the point that a suggested signing the agreement test ban treaty could easily be another of our international right away. blunders. "Ited China, whose feud with! the first place, a treaty with Khrushchev has reached the point Russia isn't worth the paper it is ""''. whereupon China would have of a split, took angry note of the j written on. Time and again Russia ; 11 fl't'(' ha"(l lu so ahead and lest talks. A Peking broadcast charged has made agreements only to '101' homos and weapons without that the negotiations were based break them whenever it fell like com petition V on what it called the 'utter hypo-1 doing so. II has welched on its. Would Russia then he in a posi ensy of President Kennedy's 'debts, has refused to nav iu n r tinn in l.i china i.. tin, t,,viin strategy for peace." dues, and otherwise has shown for the communist world while we promises of the Soviet government sat with our hands tied, victims IOt OIllV was Khrushchev in a In he rnmnlnlnlv u-,.HI,l,.. nl a ,i ,.n .,.i.,h jovial mood. The Moscow dispatch- In fuel, one nf the rlm-trinne ..f nlni" es add: ' eoillllllinism k that il i nm-IWI. : l: i L. Newsmcn saw E. II. Harriman Iv fair In make useful nlnhn.. a,l ...i' .'"""'..'.. 5 V "l ,lac'e (U.S. negotiator) and Lord Hail-' to dishonor the',,, whenever e.. .... .... ... '!.. u snm"l, ttc sham (British negotiator) come out monism will benefit ih-rnhv , .':., A '" " dn as'.e;: nf the klnmlin In ., c "u-.-.j- .V. f.' ." "' "OWing Kill . "f '".mi ji juai n.v snuuiu uie L MUCH we that (hi. Itnti'in minic 1 n-...,,1f .n I.. . .. . , . . ...... .... ........... ...... ..... L.Lu.M.h in auyai riu: i-ais. iaiaics oe secKing in mase a con both were laughing and smiling tract with a naliun which has as they talked with their associa-1 shown time and again it has no ,cs- honesty in its governmental make- ; up? voesiion. uut there's another interesting word isn't to be trusted in any respect? 'SEE' LISTON PATTERSON World Heavyweight Championship FIGHT AT r"i; -.i i'ZI 635 SE Stephens 672-1616 MONDAY... JULY 22nd 7:30 PM on CLOSED CIRCUIT DOUGLAS CABLE TV . . . FREE COFFEE . . . Can there be with Russia? WHITE HOUSE NOT SURE WASHINGTON (UPI) - The White .House says it is not sure whether President Kennedy will be in town Aug. 28, when a Negro-sponsored civil rights march of 100,000 persons is planned. There have been reports Ken nedy will be in Texas the dav before to speak at a Democratic fund-raising birthday dinner for Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. GOOD INTENTIONS WICHITA, Kan. (I'Ph - Mr. and Mrs. Sam Springer moved in to their son-in-law's home while he was on vacation "so it wouldn't be robbed." Shortly after they moved in. ac cording to police, burglars slipped in and made off with an estimat ed $ti5.000 worth of Mrs. Spring er's jewelry. 3n Cjone 33i SAFE agreement suspicion to be considered. i A good deal of publicity is being i offered concerning what would Well, some pretty good people seem to be an idelogical breach have thought so. John Foster Uul-i between Russia and China. Roth les, who in his way was a pretty 1 natiuns are permitting this sup good man, said many years, posed quarrel to he aired in the aB0: press. "The time may come I he- The press in communist nations lieve il will come when Rus-1 reports what it is told to report sians of stature will patriotically i There is reason lo suspect that put first their national security and something is "rotten in Denmark'' the security of their people. They1 when so much publicity is allow will be unwilling to have thai sc- ed to escape from behind the iron curity and that welfare subordin-; and bamboo curtains pertaining to ated to the worldwide ambitions of this alleged quarrel. International Communism. Communism permits no devia- "If their point of view should pre- tion from the Marxist line. Yet vail, then indeed there could be the interpretation of what consti a basis for worthwhile negotiation lutes deviation seems to be the and practical agreement between philosophy of the prevailing dicta the United States and the new litis- tor. sin." I.enin pursued one line Stalin took another course. Then Khru.-h- Due more question: schev came along with still an If there should be a World War other idea. He destroyed the Stalin HI. would it be possible to wage image and executed a good many it without using nuclear bombs? Stalin supporters. He exiled some of the old Bolsheviks. Now the Khrushchev interpretation alleged ly is being challenged by the Chin ese Red dictator. Mao Tzi'-Tuni! And the Western World is being Tallin from tht Wet ( Th Niwt-kiviiw 445 S. f . Main St. Rotrburd, Orteon Entf4 mond clan mattar May 7, 120, at th post offlca at Rotabvrf. Ora tton, undar act ot March , ws. Publlchad Dally Eicepl Sunday by NEWS-REVIfcW PUBLISHING CO J. V. 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The furfural, therefore, is tak en from the extract which is ob tained by boiling the rob in water and the cellulose can be thus kept for other purposes In industrial chemistry, and can be so treated mat nut yield a bright green dye. J5 YEARS AOO . July II, mi A grass fire which started near Iba highway north of Sutherlin at noon today had by 2 o'clock endan gered the entire residential district of the north end of the city. Fight ers set out back fires along the ridgn east of the city hoping to check the sweep ot the blare at that point. 10 YEARS AGO July 11, 153 A little girl, one among a multi tude of boys, climbed Into her brother's racer nd sped down the ramp to become one of the heat winners in today's Apple Box Der by event. Nancy Stacey, the only girl in the annual race, was sitting in for her brother Jimmy, who had to choose between entering the Apple Box Race and attending the National Scout Jamboree. Sine there are no rules against girls entering the race, Nancy said she'd give it i try. That's a difficult question. Kut we have to judge the future by the past. The Germans introduced the use of poison gas when they sent clouds regaled with the story of their ilif nt chlorine gas against the allien ferences. forces at Ypres. H wasn't too sue our newspapers report a with eessful then. The wind changed drawal of Russian scientists from and blew the gas hack into the I'hina which, reportedly, has been German ranks. , getting help in development of But poison gas was perfected, nuclear weapons. Ways were found to make it more Arc we about to be suckered dependable as a killer lo be used i by another commie trick" with relative safety against an en s this reported quarrel a emy. phony, designed to bring about There came then World War 11. : wishful thinking on our part'' The warring countries stockpiled Docs China actually have the gas masks and manufactured vast nuclear bomb? quantities of highly perfected poi- j Could il be that Russia now son gas. No one knows how close i seeks to entice us into a test ban the Germans tied at that time by 1 treaty, knowing that we'll keep our a MADMAN! came to using it, The Allied hiph command was pre pared to FIGHT BACK WITH POISON GAS OXFORD. Kngland II I'D -Dr. But even Madman Hitler never George Watson told the British used it. 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