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Newspaper Page Text"Could Be We Tip the Thing the Wrong Way!" -In The Day's Hews- Cdit By FRANK JENKINS I I i :i . it. . 4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore. TUESDAY, JULY 23,1963 No Favorites Played In Coverage A labor dispute this last week involv ing' a Roseburtr firm and retail clerks' union illustrates the unique opportunity u newspaper has to get caught squarely in the middle in routine coverage of con troversial issues. In this matter, the newspaper was ac cused of bias in its coverage of a picket ing; action. A union official complained that one story misrepresented the issues and presented only one side of the con troversy. - , i ' On the latter point, it must be said the news treatment reflected the respective degree of cooperation received from the sides involved. ',.. Without dwelling too much on the frus trations encountered by the news staff in attempting to obtain the "union's side" in the hassle, suffice it to say union rep resentatives were apparently not anx ious to be quoted, A union official said later his group is shy of newspaper publicity out of fear of being treated unfairly. The union was not shy, however, about criticizing the articles alter they appeared in prinl. this attitude is that it's better to keep the press and public uninformed, rather than risk bad treatment in news columns. The philosophy is grossly incorrect. Unions or any other groups or factions of public concern can only hurt their cause by avoiding publicity. Failure to bring issues out into the open usually in vites the very thing the union fears: Er ror and misunderstanding. This newspaper welcomes the oppor tunity to publish information helpful to the public in understanding important community issues. A lively exchange of comment in the newspaper by disputants in controversy is a healthy situation and does, indeed, demonstrate the unique function of a free press in a democratic society. In the matter of bias, set the record straight that the News-Review does not pick favorites in its coverage of contro versial matters. It endeavors to report and interpret the issues as fairly and ac curately as the information made avail able allows. No newspaper can do more. The apparent philosophy represented in Forest- Recreation Visits Climb A release from the U. S. Forest Serv ian shows that people are taking advan tage of the increasing facilities being es tablished in the national forests for rec reation. It notes that recreation visits to the fojests exceeded 12 million in 1962 in the Pafific Northwest. This was an increase of7 per cent over the preceding year aiiJI an increase of 05 per cent in four yejrs. , Jn Oregon, the visits totaled eight mil lion. Field tabulations showed the great est gaiiis last year In the following cate gories of use: General enjoyment and sightseeing, gathering forest products for pleasure, organized camping, scien tific study, hobbies, hiking, riding and ; wilderness travel. The Umpqua ranked sixth in recrea tion usage in the state with 308,000 visits. It shows the Umpqua is another of the assets which may soon place recreation as the county's second biggest industry. As more areas of the forest are de veloped for recreation, and as the routes, such as the North Umpqua Highway, are completed, that 308,000-visit figure is bound to balloon. WASHINGTON WINDOW Public Debt s Costliest Dead Horse Ever Known By LYLE C. WILSON Unittd Pratt International President Kennedy gave him self hiiih marks ut lust week's Whili llniiKn news conference. He said his Treasury deficit In the 11X13 fiscal year would ue oniy $11.2 billion Instead of the $8.8 bil lion estimated six mourns ago. ' The President and his successors must do holler than that, how ever, if the United States is to escape from tlio tallspin of defi cit spending that threatens the American wuy of life. A stronger president than the United Slates fins had in the past 30 yours must come along soon to revorso the trend of spending. There have been 27 Treasury deficits in tlio past 34 years. Pub lic and politicians wero shocked years ago as I ho deficits accu mulated from year to year. Frank lin D. Roosevelt regularly prom ised to balance the budget but al ways "next year." He . never made it. Now a president con siders it reason for congratula tion when his budget deficit is a mere $6.2 billion. D.bt J304 Billion All of these budget deficits arc paid off Willi borrowed money. This public debt in 11)30 was SHU billion, a . holdover from World War I. Interest on the public debt that year was $lifl) million. The public debt today is $31X1 billion. The taxpayers have paid $133 billion in inlerest on the pub lic debt since 11)30, the most cost ly dead horse of all time. The cumulative budget deficit, 11)30 04, was $278.0 billion. That is the mar gin by which the United States government has been living beyond its income. The spending trend has been steadily up as politicians happily overworked the lato Har ry L. Hopkins' famous New Deal system of remaining in office. The system, according to Hopkins, wos: "Tax and lux, spend and spend, elect and elect." Hut the politicians lag on taxes, speed on spending. Government expenditures In fiscal 111(10 were $76.5 billion and revenue was $77.7 billion fur a fat surplus. It the Kennedy administration had been willing to bold spending at the 10 level there would have been no deficit in fiscal 19K3 but a surplus, perhaps $10 billion in stead of a deficit of $0.2. A Deadly Manace The endless Treasury deficits arc regarded by old fashioned folk the political squares as a deadly inenarc to the gen eral welfare. There is another deficit, however, equally menac ing. That is the U. S. deficit in its balance of international pay ments. This deficit is accumula- MS 1 F. Main S. Rosrtiurg, Oreoon Tflfphont W-Ull Cntired II second class malttr May 7, lM, at If pott ottfea at Rosatoirg, Ort 0v. under act of March , 1I7J. Published Dally Ecpt Sunday by NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO J. V. Branntr publisher The News-Review Is member o the United Press International, NEA Service. Audil Bureau el Circulation and the Oitsjon Newspaper publishers Association. National Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co., Rvss Building, tan Francisco. Cant. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier and Roteburg P. o. Boses - 1 Ihonlh, tl.Hi morons, tlD SOi I year. 111 OS. By Mail In Oregon: I month, lust 3 months, U Mi t months, S00 I year U.OO. Outside of Oregon; 1 month. II IS; - "iwmie, u.rsi a months, aia so, i ting now at a rate of about $3.3 billion annually. The Kennedy ad ministration's alarm is evident In legislation now proposed to check or reverse the trend of that deficit tn international trims actions, The deficit hit $3.0 bil lion In 11)60. the last Eisenhower year. Kennedy got it under lim ited control and Into a downward trend through 1961-62. But the trend is sharply up again and the administration is worried. The U. S. gold stock is running perilously low. It Is down to $15.6 nillion now from nearly $24.5 oil lion in 1049. The United States could not today meet its gold ob ligations if demand were made. The rich Uncle Sam of tlio gen erous Marshall Plan and other foreign aid may he just another poor relation one of these days 3n 2) Gone d3i The Almanac - JVBj. v.'' ; " if' ! Let's talk today about guns. , Monument and slood ult a U.S. i It's always an interesting sub-! army for weeks, their sharpshoot j ject. and a particularly interesting WMen in the cracks and I old gun find has just been made j . , . , . . iover in the Snake River country. ! i,edms 01 ,ne la4a Dcas' Plckod off iThe finder is Jack Gallagher, a j a considerable number of the at- : biologist with the Bureau of Com- i tacking troops. mercial Fisheries. ! There were ten of the old wca- pons, and he came upon them by 1 the purest accident. He was SCUBA diving in the Snake river j in search of metal salmon tags that is, aluminum tags attached to the fins of hatchery salmon to en ' able the fish biologists to trace more accurately the migrations of the fish after their release from the hatcheries. Farm Bright Exports Despite Picture Tariffs The old guns were discovered in mud-filled eddy between Swan j Falls and Walters Ferry on the Snake, about 45 miles south of Boise. James Brinda, of Ontario, trac- ed their histury, and identified them as: A Spencer carbine, caliber .50. I A "Kentucky repeater." possibly ! made by Burnside or Whitney. Two Henry repeaters, one with a brass receiver, patented in 1860 and 1866. A Springfield flintlock muzzle loader, U.S. Army Caliber .69. A Sharps percussion carbine caliber .54 round barrel buffalo gun patented in 1859 and another cali bre .50, patented in 1852 with an octagonal barrel. i A Winchester 1866 lever action ; caliber 44-80. i A Colt slide action Lightning re neater, caliber 44. A USN Springfield single shot percussion breech loader. Legend has it that the troopers' rifles were picked up by the Mu docs and carried back into their stronghold. The story goes that these rifles were put in a cave and the cave was roughly walled up. t Many years ago, Peter Sconchin told this writer that he was a boy of seven or eight years at the time of the battle and that he remem bered quite clearly seeing the guns put into the cave. He said he be lieved that if he could go back and make a careful search he might be able to recognize tile spot. He confirmed the story of the walling up of the cave containing the guns. He said the wall was roughly built of lava blocks and fragments, and might have gone unrecognized over all the interven ing decades. We made several appointments to go down to the Lava Beds and carry on a search, but something always intervened to cause a post ponement. Before we could get around to it, Mr. Sconchin passed away. By United Pratt International Today is Tuesday, July 23, the 204lli day of 1063 with 161 to follow. The moon is approaching Us first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Nars. On this day in history:' In 1886, New York saloon keep er Steve Brodio claimed he had jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East Iiiver. In 1945, Henry Phillippe re train, former French Chief of Slate, went on trial for treason in Paris. In 1947, President Hurry S. Tru man made an unexpected visit to the Senate and sat in the seat he hud occupied as a senator. In 1961, a U.S. plane with 38 persons aboard was highjacked to Cuba. A thought for the day Presi dent Franklin D. Itoosevelt said: "The truth is found when men ore free to pursue it." (Foreign News Commentary) By WILLIAM ANDERSON BRUSSELS, (UPD The future of American farm exports to the six European Common Market countries appears to be fairly bright despite protective tariffs. Europe s bustling economy, its increasing standards of living, and a burgeoning population should enable the United States to at least maintain agricultural exports at the present $1,200,000 000 dollar-a-year level. But the protectionism which (arm lobbies in Krunce, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries arc demanding and in some cares getting undoubt edly will lead lo a change in the pattern of U.S. farm exports. The U.S. will not be alone. Re cently, French farmers succeed ed in halting fruit mid vegetable imports from North Africa be cause of a local glut. As in tile U.S., European farm interests are highly effective politically. This changing pattern will in- raisers, copying U.S. production i methods and with no tanlt bar riers to hurdle, quickly grabbed up most of the market. Some went to government subsidized Danish producers. This market would have disap peared entirely for American farmers, but for some tough talking and bargaining by U.S. Agricultural officials in Brussels Judging by the condition of the ! wood, Mr. Brinda estimated that 1 the guns had been under water for ! a period of between 65 and 80 i years. The metal, he reported, was i in surprisingly good condition. I Where they came from is a mys- I lery. On the positive side, increases I Mr. Brinda surmises that they may be expected in exports o might have been lost when a trad feed grains, which are running cr's boat capsized in the Snake, about $271 million a year. Euro- Or. he says, they might have been pean farmers can increase their part of a shipment of guns from yield, but increased acreage can the Silver City mines. Presumably, the old guns are still there waiting for some ob servant searcher to find the wall that closed the cave containing them. If so, it would be quite a find. Kennedy Gets ASNE Complaint be attained only by sacrificing other crops. An increase in consumer in come also is expected to result higher exports of soya and Whatever their history. HARTFORD, Conn. (UPD-Thc American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) has sent Presi dent Kennedy a complaint about the treatment of American news men in South Viet Nam. ASNE President Herbert Brucker, editor of the Hartford Courant, urged Kennedy in a let ter made public Sunday "to bear there 1 mind the need of the American and Geneva lasting more than a i piotein concentrates to keep pace year. with an increasing demand of Fruit Imports Stable about 10 per cent a year in meat Minimum import prices set by consumption. Exports here are the Common Market for fruit and ! inning auout $160 million a vegetables are not hurling ex- j vear ports so far Bui efforts by U.S. u g u t x t. officials to get the Europeans t ' ed t(J g0 hj Hafd and leffi. .infill nsuuiICUM K.Uv..uB .,u , . ,,:,, : n-,,,ial rnln. i processing standards for tuese . ' items have met with no success. So even if U.S. exports can less Europe which has pushed sales up to $160 million in fiscal year 1961-62 is expecled to boost may find import standards being I this-figure-in coming yers. used as a restrictive practice, j America's S122 million Europe- an grain market also may be hit j by the variable import duties. must be a fascinating story back of their loss some three-quar ters of a century ago if Mr. Brin da's estimate of the length of time they have been under water is rea sonably accurate. Does any reader of this newspa per know why these old guns were dumped into the Snake river back people to have the fullest possible factual information from South Viet Nam. . .'' "In recent weeks. . .there have been charges that Vietnamese se cret police 1 pommeled, knocked down, and kicked American re porters, and smashed their cam eras," Brucker wrote. And," he suid, "these events in what must have been the early su a' l"cse ecm ,i.,.. r n, wi- follow complaints over a ong clays of the West.' ; iod lhat" Arnol.ican reporXcr .i t, ; are hampered by the South Viet That brings up another old gun Num gcJcrnmcnt in going about s'nr'- , 1 their duties, and that sometimes In 1872, when the Modop-Indians; even American officials do not retired into the fastnesses of what i support their' efforts to report is now the Lava Beds National events as they arc." elude the complete disappearance . The duties have been increased of some traditional export items , by 10 per cent up to S1.10 a ton, lo Europe. But trade in other items will increase. One of Ihc early American cas ualties lias been the export of chickens primarily to West Ger many. U.S. farm efficiency boost ed poultry exports inlo a '$67 million market in fiscal 1961-62. When the variable levy system came into effect July 1. 1962, U.S. exports dipped to one third of this amount. Duch and Belgian chicken 1 pale Flour Exports Slashed U.S. exports of flour mainly lo Holland can he expected to disappear because of levies and increased European production. Under new European legisla tion, tariffs on pork will be upped from the present nine per. cent to 20 per cent. This will hit the $10 million a year U.S. pig liver export trade from which the Europeans make liverwurst and sw Opinions From Readers Taken from the filet of the Newt- Review 40 YEARS AGO July 23, 1913 Suuthern California was into a panic lute last night and early this morning by several se vere earthquake shocks. Many plate gluss windows were broken. In Los Angeles, the tremor stoo ped clocks and started burglar alarms. Agreements were made between the drug stores of this city today whereby one of the stores will he open each night until 9:30 p.m. to accommodate I lie public. IS YEARS AGO July 23, 1938 Adult Example Necessary To Deter Young Smokers To The Editor: How about a cigaretle? Now you iwwl a liulil lltnn u.,,,,,,,,1 ,,,-A t thrown'.,... ih s,. How many times do you suppose this ritual is performed each day? The number is countless. Someone asked me why I quit and that is just one of the many reasons, but it goes deeper than that. The ques tion occurred to me why do 1 smoke? You can rationalize it in many ways, but to be complete ly honest is more difficult. I had no answer, so I quit, It was that simple, but not that easy. can't wait to light their own cigar- stable office and I can send you ctle. money for it. ' no learning point, is as strong: Oregon, known as the "Beaver i and effective us example. Having oeen a smoker, I have compassion for those who still do. I feci sorry for them, and I really don't mind belonging lo the minority group. Dick Booth lit. 2 Box 15117 Hoseburg, Ore. Reader Says Everyone Loses With A Strike To The Editor: I have gone through one strike and I know thai no mailer what one gains a person cannot make State, is rich in history and 1 have very much interest iii this fa mous old American state. I am hopeful you can help me in tins I I matter and will lie very glad lo i hear from you again. Thank you! Manfred S. Bordasch 3161 Grelenberg uber l.ehrte j Hannover, West Germany D-W Church Hosts District Meeting Amid the first tortures I found: up what is lost. Strikers will lose others did not want me to quit The present month promises to ; Countless thousands are spent to be the hottest July on record, un-1 It'll us about the extreme pleasure less n sudden change brings umisu- of smoking. Advertising uses unltc ally low temperature tor the hal-1 lievably beautiful girls and breath niii'C of the month. Highs of 08.2 j taking situations to show how won degrees are the avcroge temperu- derful the Inhalation of cigarette tures for the pust 15 days, with i smoke can lie. So I took the ad thermometers reaching to 104 on i vice of one ad and "went all the several of the 15 I way to lightness" and quit. 10 YEARS AGO ! It seemed a shame to miss all A meeting of the Eugene District ! Church Extension Society of Moth-: odists was held at the Dillard Win-; slon Methodist Church recently to elect new officers, correspond-! out Phebe McGuire reports. Among the 70 persons presenl ; was the Rev. E. J. Aschenbrenner. My husband and 1 went through , ' " V: "r " ''' "' rici i n, i.-.i. "l r.um-iie, hioiil; won ministers and laymen from each church in the district. enough that they can never moke it up, no matter what they get. They may gel a dollar a day' more, but thai will not gain anything. If they will figure it out. and have any sense at all, they'll learn they can nevrr gum anything July 23, 19S3 Two ltlO fiHit poles tor the the railroad strike that look place many years ago, and mv husband said if he had it to do over again log 'thai pure pleasure, but I hod en-, he never would go out on another gers contest at the County Fair could stand. My sense of smell and i Why ran t they sit down at the are to be erected twlay. The poles ! tastr returned, and, being unbiir-, conference table and everybody v.i.1 tie used lor high climbing and ,0ned bv the nuisance of always .give a little and work it out. Ev ut.oo. year nipping events. ! searching for a cigarete, I won- 1'be Hoseburg Linns Club hasj(crcd whv I had ever started. Whv neen placed in charge of a massive i , str- baibecue to be featured Saturday I ,,,, lnl wjlh ,,, (,,, , at the lounty rair. Alnnit 1.500 1 lMn t lnh,,n, , vot . (orm, mv. pounds of beef will be put on thei s(.,f , a(.ql,i,.t, u A, ,th nuist SO foot barbecue the preceding eve- tlH,ua(OTS j, Wf), ,,. ,,(, t0 serve about 4,000. g,.mv up , bf Bri.eptPl, ,me 0, I the gang. It didn't make me any QUEEN CANCELEO VISIT 1 smarter, I hough 1 may have ; thought so. I didn't gel anv more LONDON ( l l'n Queen Elia-1 attention because others were en Iseth canceled her visit to the j grossed in lighting their own cigar Royal school in Windsor ('.real j rites, t had joined the gang the Park Sunday because of an out. 'aanu n,L lira What an h,in,,i-l urcais oi cnicnen pox among the pupils. The Queen, who vjas to ha presented pnes, called off the visit on aavice of her doctor, a adulls who preach lo teen agers paiare announcement said. altout the evils of ervliody strike. loses when Ihere is Belle Crenshaw Central Trailer Court Roseburg. Ore. U. S. Badge Of Constable Sought By West German t Kit Note- The following letter s received by Ha; niond U. Ol son, Hoseburg constable, and is reterretl lo our readers ) Dear Sir I am a Herman amateur histor- Dlscussions were held regarding : church growth and the re location of the Oardiner Methodist Church The Rev. Paul llurlocker, pastor of Hie Gardiner church, was re-elect-i ed lo serve as president of the dis trict for another year. Plans were also discussed for the luture building of four new ! churches in the district. The Dillard Winston Methodist WSC8 ladies served as hostesses (or a refreshment hour. REACHED NEW RATE WASHINGTON U'Pli Per sonal Income in the United States reached a record annual rate of SIK2 billion m June, an increase of $2 billion over May, the Com merce Department reported Sun- he i $ whv do teen-agers smoke? i "I"! s.,wlv llu- law l,t the n,' anv ; Simple - because, adults do. What ""' 01,1 American days ' -' hetl.en .s to hlame? I grow weary of ; r lU,milv cor,stnbi. ha(,;e. I will June hike aSl the increases con i toward the : remainder re in irrv Ihnns. fill if vn ,-an n,l sultri! from a- risp in rnrtsnrat smoking and m,- soch a badge from our con- dividends, the reKrt said. ' MR. ADVERTISER ...! YOU GET MORE For Your ADVERTISING DOLLAR When you advertise in Our readers are your potential customers and they buy our daily newspaper because they want to read it! Get Your Advertising Money's Worth Advertise where you know your message will be read The News-Review's circulation is now 12,373 and is delivered to 88.8 of the homes in Roseburg and 60.9 o of the homes in our city and retail trading xones! Serving Douglas County With Today's News Today "Our paid circulation is audited and verified regularly by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Chicaqo, Illinois. Ask to see our current ABC report.