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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.
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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
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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;:
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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?
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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
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July 11, mi
Science has found way of uli
liiing ill corn cobs, short or long,
in the manufacture of various
chemicals. As the cob consists of
cellulose which is valuable for mak
ing paper, It is considered desir
able to save the substance of the
cob. 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. Medical Association Conference
Tuesday that children should
So catch some childhood diseases at
Ma.vbe it will be possible to ban an early ase and get them oer
the use of nuclear weapons in nv ami done with
future war. Walson predicted that somedav
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