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Editor iai fage 4 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Oregon may be missing- a bet by not having them, but for the moment, any way, the state has a top-notch drawing card in having the lowest go-called "va cation taxes" in the United States. Oregon has the distinction of being the only state in the union to impose only one of the three "vacation taxes" gasoline, sales and cigarette. This is pointed out by the state Tax Commission in its monthly bulletin. The only one of these three taxes im The Sutherlin Sun-Tribune appeared this week in new form. And it's a most attractive form ! The Sutherlin Sun-Tribune is a mer ger of the Sutherlin Sun and the Oak land Tribune, two of Douglas County's oldest weekly newspapers. It serves the Sutherlin-Oakland community. Logan White, aggressive publisher of the newspaper, reports installation of new equipment making the changed ap pearance possible. The paper has been reduced to tabloid size. It is printed by the photo-offset process. This process rapidly is being applied to weekly newspapers throughout the country. It also has been adopted by some of the smaller dailies. Great strides have been made in re Absence Of Bugs Possibly Worth Threat To The Birds An article by Clark C. Van Fleet, former well known resident of Douglas County, in the current issue of Atlantic 'Monthly is made the subject of most interesting comment by Oregon's former governor, Charles A. Sprague, publish er of the Oregon Statesman, Salem. Sprague's comment is written in his daily column. "It Seems To Me." Van Fleet now resides in erous outdoor articles and books. His latest article deals with the great loss of songbirds. He attributes this situa tion to pesticides used especially in southern California, the winter habitat of many birds. Kdllor Spracue calls attention to j arop in uie number of mums around his home. 1. too. have ob served that there have been fewer robins during the last few sea sons. I had blamed this condition on the fact that California jnys have been on the Increase In our neighborhood. I had been told that they chased other species of birds out of the locality. But Van Fleet, according to Sprague, comments on studies in Sonoma County, Calif., that blue birds are 60 per cent down, rob ins 95 per cent, insectivorous birds, warblers, et, 50 per cent; cedar wax wings 50 per cent. Meadow larks wero up 20 per cent, kildcer up 10 nor cent. Sparrows, Juncoes, blackbirds, and other dry seed caters normal. Van Fleet's article, Sprague re ports, is In support of Rachel Car sun's controversial book "Silent Spring." Controversy Unlooitd Miss Carson's book lias unloosed a most vigorous controversy con cerning the effect of pesticides on wildlife. Large scalo spraying of lurcst areas, the book asserts, caus es great loss of birds and fish. Chemicals washing in from agri cultural arras has caused the death of fish in neighboring streams. Van Fleet's article calls parti cular atlcntion to the migration of robins. They are In danger of be ing wiped out if something isn't done about the poison chemicals used as pesticides, he says. "Chemicals, like 1)1)7, do not disappear after they have done their lelliul work on Ilios. mos quitoes, budworms," Sprague says in commenting on Van Fleet's ar ticle. "Tho chemicals remain. They enter into foliigo (grass which cows cut 1 Inlo streams (which fish drink). Hints (reeling on insects may accumulate poi sons; or, as Van Fleet points out. the lack of Insect life, as a result of sprays, may 'starve out' the birds. A snalluw in its dips and dives 'may take an insert every fifth of a second.' A warbler or vereo may gobble lo.ooo worms, egg cases, nymphs or larvae in one hour's foraging In a prose of trees. No insects; no food." Eaaggtration Cltimtd Chemical manufacturers are as WJ I. E. Malts St. ffotrtourg, Oraooe lalaptxma atl-Dll Fntfrad at tacond class matlar May . 110, at tha post edict at Roveburg, Ora oon, undar act of March i, lit, eublllrtatl Dally Cicapt Sunday hy NEWS REVIEW PUSl ISHINU CO. J. V. Braimtf ut)lnh Tha Ntwt-Rtvlavt la a mansbaf at tha United prat International. NtA StrvKa. ; Audit Bureau ar circulator, end tha Oregon 'Newapapar publlcheM A.ttseiaton National Adt''lr Veeretentehv Is Newioapor Atfvert.tinoj aerv Co, Ruta BuiMinf, Ian FranctKe. Celt! tuawtiipTioN rates Carrier and Rmehurg f o Boiel 1 rnonln, II 11, moniha, lit K, I year, lit 00 y Hail - M Oreoon: I month. II. Hi 1 rjMW' rnonrhi, I tear ll.oo. Out.., at Oraoon; I month. II Is.- d 9S ,j, a months. II0.X); 131.00. year 'Vacation Taxes' Low In Sutherlin Paper Takes New Style Tlic Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton California. Ho has written num . - ; -" "uco raiscu uy "Silent Spring" are vastly exag gerated; that those who write on the subject write as "professional journalists" and not as scientists. Perhaps it Is true that the dele tcrious effect of poison chemicals used as pesticides has been over rated. But there are cases in which 1 prefer spray to the presence of birds, much as I love birds. For example: In the area where I live, the city of Rosoburg ran its mosquito control smoke rig through the neighborhood a cou ple of times earlier this year. As a result we didn't have a mos quito for a long time. 11 was a great relief to be free of these pests. Nuisanc Abated Then the mosquitoes began to show. They became big and quar relsome even vicious, lint the city's control unit went around again and the nuisance has been abated, at least temporarily. I, for one, hope we will not bo forgot ten and visited frequently by the "smoker." I give the city man agement my personal thanks. I confess I prefer the spray. I'm sure the birds In our area arc get ting enough to eat, because I feed them. The moment the car ap pears in front of the house, or 1 walk out in the yard, the begging begins. So, in our neighborhood wr ran afford to lose a few bugs. Now If I could onlv find some spiny that would get rid of the neighborhood cats seeking to feed on the birds, tho situation could be still further improved. British 'Thing' Was Meteorite LONDON (UPD-The "thing"! that excited British living saucer! fans for two weeks turned out to be a meteorite Friday. I Army bomb disposal experts dug up the meteorite, about the I sue of tennis ball, from be- j nealh a crater near Charlton and announced they planned to turn it over "to the scientists." "Our interest in the Incident Is: at an end." said Maj. II. P. iuar-; trough, the armv engineer who i finally Identified the thing. i The meteorite came down in i tanner Roy lllanchard's potato aim nariey nem, creating a I ueirdly.shaprd hole In the ground ; that was noticed about two weeks i ago. Army engineers were railed in; and announced that their instru ments indicated something metal lic underneath. "Flying saucer'' speculation lipped around the country, providing Britons with one of their finest science fiction mysteries sine the Loch Ness monster. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1963 Oregon posed by the state is a 6-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline. All other of the -19 states have, in addition, to this tax either a sales tax or a tobacco tax or both. Only Oregon, North Carolina and Col orado have no state cigarette tax. Meanwhile, other states were making the sales tax a leading source of state revenue. For example. Pennsyl vania now has the highest sales tax in the land 6 per cent. New York City just raised its sales tax from 3 to 4 per cent. cent years in the development of the photo-offset printing technique. Dailies have been slow to adopt the process be cause of difficulties encountered in se curing sufficient press speeds for long runs. The printing and publishing industry, however, is very interested in the de velopments of this new technique. Still further improvements are anticipated. This has led to much controversy con cerning the respective merits of the photo-offset method of printing as com pared with "hot metal" and the letter press now in common use. The change made by Publisher White will give the Sutherlin-Oakland weekly much greater printing flexibility, parti cularly with pictures and in the use of color. The Almanac By Unittd Prtu International Today is Saturday, July 27, the 208th day of 1963 with 157 to follow. The moon Is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1777, the Marquis De Lafay ette and other foreign officers of fered their services to the Con tinental Congress. In 1019, 38 persons were killed in a race riot at a Chicago beach. In 1959, plans to form a third major league, to be known as the Continental League, were an nounced. In 10. Richard Nixon was nominated as the Republican pres idential candidate and said he wanted Henry Cabot Lodge as his running male. A thought for the day Ameri can writer F. Scott Fitzgerald said: "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. Cjone (JSij Taktn from fh filet of tho Nows- Rovitw 40 YEARS AGO July 17, 1911 The famous Georgia Minstrels are due for an appearance at the Antlers Theatre today bringing a company of 40 fun-making musici ans, singers, and dancers and 15 vaudeville acts in a program en tirely different from anything ever seen in a minstrel performance. A rattlesnake 5 feet 11 inches long, with 19 rattlos, was killed at Onkdale, Calif., hy a youth who had kept an eye on the snake's trail for nearly two years. The snake was more than 10 inches in circumference. '. YEARS AGO July 57, 131 ! The Japanese foreign office dis-i closed the third clash this month I between Soviet and Manchoukuo! patriots on the Siberian frontier but said Uie clash was "not to be tak en seriously." The rerrratinn program taking place at Finlay Ficltl has increas ed its enrollment to 150 and has added some new games to its agen da. 10 YEARS AGO July 17, 153 Now 4 weeks old, a strange rrea hire was born to a shorthorn heif er on the Fulton ranch in Man kato. Kans. The calf-deer Is mark ed like a faun, runs deer-like, with head up, and has deer shaped hooves. Oregon's first very high frequen cy television station will go on the air next week. With test patterns broadcast now, the station will soon be ready for full-time operation. END OF WHALING KDINBL'RGH, Scotland ll PD Britain's ccnturirj-old whaling in dustry ended Friday with the sale of the last whaling faclory ship, owned hy Christian Salvesen and Co., Ud., tt a Japanese firm for more than 111 million. A spokesman for the company said the sale had been under' ne gotiation for several weeks. The next to last British fla whale rendering ship, the Southern Ven turer, was sold to the Japanese firm about a year ago. Addition to By ROBERT C. RUARK LOURENCO MARQUES, Mozam bique, Portuguese East Africa There is no struggle for independ ence inside Portuguese East Afri ca, no matter what may be said in the United Nations debates in the effort of the Afro-Asian bloc to oust Portugal from the clamorous family of nations. The struggle comes from without from across the Rovuma river in Tanganyika, from Lcopoldville in the Congo, from distant Algeria, and from that well-known African city, Mos-; cow. lloldcn Roberto, the renegade and avowed Communist who bYag - gcd of his leadership in organiz - ing the frightful massacres of March 15, 1961, in which recruits from the Congo fed people into j holli willi the tille of "doctor," in an(' Mozambique will be fa sawmills and played football with this area best represented by an I 'ally involved with a bunch of tic unborn children (I have seen the'-x". ! termincd Algerians and other for pictures) is now the nominated sa-! Roberto's thugs, which operate cign meddlers, all in the name of vior of a country which is not real- from ,e Congo, are described by : something nobody understands and ly conscious of a necessity to be ii,,. romimltoo as "the hest and! which cannot possibly improve the saved. Robarto Endorsed In Lcopoldville, Roberto has been ! endorsed by a commission of six! African stales as the potential Jonio Kcnyaltu for Angola. In tins instance he has brought down a rival faction, the Popular Move ment for the Liberation of Angola, and his National Front for Ihe Lib- eration of Angola is as far out in1 front as KANU in Kenya. lis supposed to have about 25.000 mere is no tiouin oi one uiiiib. This is how African polities work i men in training and under arms The problems of Angola and Mo fnim afar- Hip onmhle is nnl In Inn the Cnnrnlnse hnrder The so. Zaillbiquc are truly internal prob- see that the people will be freed, but who will lead the people to WASHINGTON WINDOW Democratic Leadership Lost In The Congress Unittd Prtit International It is President Kennedy's bad enough to consider the stagnation luck that Sam llayburn died and now prevailing, they might dis tliat it was deemed necessary to cover the delights of lining up to put Lyndon B. Johnson on the j gcther to fight the Democrats. HUM Democratic presidential tick-1 Republicans should be the last ct to hold the Deep South. ".Mr. Sam" and Johnson were A.in..MdCinMni i ...u I, how to lead. That cannot be said of the leadership of Ihe 88th gress. The Democratic Party en- joy, majorities in the House and Senate. Democrat, chair the r..tm..ill...la at occupy power, the President in Ihe Ihe 88lh Congress. White House is a Democrat. Session Draws On With all of that going for the This session probably will con New Frontier, the Kennedy ad- tinue through Thanksgiving to ministration is unable to move Christinas. President Kennedy its legislative program. The U.S. : made an effective WS campaign Congress does not function much complaint that President Eisen beyonil the routine of convene-: hower hatl failed to provide the recess - tonvene - recess again, : nation with leadership. That in more a vegetable than a living : vites attention now to the organism of government. situation in Congress where the Leadership Complicated ' Democratic leadership does not The President has complicated load and the Democratic maiori more than simplified the leader- ties reject the leadership of Pies ship problems of his legislative ; ident Kennedy, agents. For example: There arc! This siluation. of course, will at this moment before Congress rhanse considerably in the final three major Kennedy proposals, ' weeks of this session. Then there each with an A l priority. ; will be a hurricane of legislative They are: tax reduction and re-' activity. Congress will be on a form, civil rights and railroad day-and evening scheduled to en stnke legislation. act vital legislation. This will be This is the seventh month of ; accomplished by short cuts, half the 8Mh Congress. All but two of ! bakrd debate and consideration, the routine appropriation bills ! Emerging is likely to be a great await action. Fewer than half a ideal of ill-considered legislation, doien maior bills of any kind: That is the environment, have hern rnarted in this first : for example, in which the Senate seven months. The President re- probably will be compelled 10 cently reported himself rtmtcnt consider the test ban treaty now that he had got the country to in the works in Moscow. The moving again. If so. it is time he : session-end legislative traffir jam turned his attention to the Demo- will not permit time for intelli cratic 8Sih Congress. gent consideration of a test ban No economy nor system of gov- treaty although the fate of int ernment nor political administra- human race may be written he tion can long endure an absolute tween the lines of that document, stagnation of public business. If Too bad l.vndon and Mr. Sam Republicans, would knock oft can't take over again. the Gallery of "War Mongers" ndependence Bid Not Inside white Cadillacs, gold beds (as in1 Ghana) and Swiss bank accounts,! as in all of the freedom-scream-J ing newcomers to democracy. The committee backing Roberto ' who fired his Ba-Kango thugs with done and drink when lie sent them nn Ihe iriphtfill fnr.iv of March 15.1 is composed of the. following na-! The pathetic thing isx that this tions: Algeria, Guinea. Senegal, j whole apparatus is an outside gain Uganda, the ex-Belgian Congo, and , bit, decided by such low-comedy Nigeria, with big backing from; Ethiopia Movement Dethroned The dethroned Popular Move - I ment which, had the Casablanca ! ha, where everybody got a free I Group backing, leaned strongly on!lum,y hat and an extra helping of ' Ghana and Mr. Nasser's United I watermelon in the name of One i Arab Republic The leaders of the1 j currently : out-of-work liberators are! Mrin Andrade and Annstinhn Netn. ! most effective fichtine force " This means that Ihev have not vet been able to beef up the other thugs who will eventually com- pete for the carcass from across the Rovuma River, which separ ates Tanganyika from Mozam- hiniirs Figures are as evasive as our - accounts of the preparation for the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, but Roberto called freedom fighters in Portu-i'cms guesc Guinea have not yet been fighting among themselves long to forget that a lost and hope - less cause produced a political i i into ... ii c Truman directed his presidential:. ".n, """. 'hp, ro"p ton-Campaign exclusively against the b letters to heir U.S. home ad-1 'Republican 8 0th Congress. HST '."-esses hat their passports had called the Stltl, the worst. On its!"?" voided Off.cias said the record so far. HST might want i f urt',n" ould have to appeal to, ,.:.... : t ,.f Country tabulated, even in a joke. What comes out of Tanganyika when the attack mounts to harass Mozam- bique is still conjectural, but it's likely that Ben Bella's suggested 10,0(10 to 20.000 mercenaries might logically start there. Gambit Outside, committees as the Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa, which was conceived in: 1 that recent fish fry in Addis Aba Africa. The more pathetic thing is that the innocent blacks of both Ango - ; present position of the indigenous i African of those areas. Death and i deprivation and the ruination of the constructive program by the Portuguese to upgrade their sav age nationals while working with the already emerged and assimilat ed Africans are about the only "imgs uie innocents can cxpeci uy this invasion of turf. Greed Involved for the Portuguese Govern- mem, y.nicn is a identity any oi the western nations. We are stand- ing by at the moment in the flaccid expectation of an unwanted knock off which is as cynical and callous as Russia's deal in Hungary, and it appears that the United Nations was not present to hear the de might well concede to the Afro-1 cisions announced. He went to Asian desire to set free the already Detroit by plane Thursday night, free even if it has to kill them in ' The union boss could be sen the process and all in the name ; fenced to 25 years in prison and of outside political greed. I fined S25.0O0 if convicted. He and i REVOKES PASSPORTS WASHINGTON (UPI) The State Department has revoked ;'hp passports of 58 American stu- t.ow v.s.ting Cuba I ino Male icparimrni sam I ill! liUVlM II 111 rill IH'IUI V Ull'll l'US9 ports could be validated again. Outer space may pose a problem, but anywhere on earth, your Travelers' Checks are good as cash Better than cash, in fact. Should you lose them, your money is reploced promptly, wherever you may be any where on earth' Before leaving, get Travelers' Checks here CHECKING ACCTS VACATION LCANS SAVINGS ACC TS SAFE DEPOSIT DRIVE-UP Window Night Depository Douglas Roieburg In The Day's Hews- By FRANK i This modern world note, culled from Ihe Wall Street Journal: Americans are quietly hocking j many new post-war homes to meet ! Uie bills of the "good life." j In the country's greatest era of home ownership, 'he citizenry has bought some 20 million new homes i since the war. Most of them, of I course, were bought with mort ' gages. Now, with a part of the ; mortgages paid off, new mort i gages are being plopped on Ihe houses in eoidemic proporUons to pay for everything from educa tion to travel to pleasure boating. It is impossible to pinpoint pre cisely how consumers are spend ing mortgage money not used to buy new homes . . . But the big bulge in mortgage borrowing, talks with mortgage lenders and econ omists clearly indicate, reflects spending FAR REMOVED from the real estate realm. Which is to say: Following the war, people of our country bought homes some 20 million of them. As soon as the homes were finished and they moved in, they began to pay off the mortgages. The war ended in 1 1945, and in tne ensuing in years a considerable part of the mort I gages has been paid off. In the meantime, the value of their ! homes has risen. So now, instead of paying off ) the remainder of the mortgages i and owning their homes free and clear of debt, thus building up an I estate for themselves and their children, people aro putting NEW ! MORTGAGES on their homes and j using the ready money thus ob . taincd to "pay for everything from education to travel to pleasure I boating." Question: ! Why do people do things like that? A sufficient answer is that the example was set for them by their government. In 1945, at the end of World War II. the public debt of the United States was S258.6 billion. Now, 18 years later, it stands at about $306 billion, and ! is heading higher. The present legal aeDt limn is $309 billion only S3 billion above the present debt. And spending goes on unchecked. So a new debt I limit must be provided. Congress is expected to be asked soon to provide it. Presumably, it will do ! so as it has done so often be- 'fore. Which is to say: In these 18 years since the Big War ended the GOVERNMENT of the United States has been doing vactlv what the people have been Hninu instead of Davine off its debt, it has been spending high. wide and handsome auijiimii TO ITS DEBT instead of paying off on it. The people, you see, have mere- ly been following the example set j lor them iy tneir govoinmom. I Can nicy ue nidineci. Judge Rules Hoffa Must Stand Trial NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) A federal judge ruled Friday tiiat Teamsters President James R. lloffa must stand trial here on charges of attempting to fix a jury. U.S. District Court Judge Frank Gray Jr. refused to throw out a five-count indictment charg ing the labor leader with conspir ing in alleged attempts to bribe jurors trying him on charges of sharing in an illegal labor pay off. Gray also denied a defense mo tion to move the trial to another city. The trial date was not im mediately determined. Hoffa. who attended the pre trial hearings earlier in the week, iu co deicnuanis in tne case nave ' pit'tilU'U IIHKH-l-lll. I The defense had asked Gray to throw out the indictment on a variety of grounds, including al- : leged leaks of grand jury testi- mony vague wording of charges land Ihe possih.hty federal agents 1 inciiaiiy nmainru i-vicii'iice uv tt ,i'l'l"K' rhe change of venue n ot, was based on grounds that the public ,n the middle Tennessee district had been prejudiced by ' Ill'W ill V. DIM US ill nil- I Iflilinni a chief's earlier trial. Travelers Checks ARE GOOD ANYWHERE ON EARTH! County BANK Ooklond Sutherlin JENKINS Personally, I doubt it. If the supposedly best brains in our country Uie people we elect to take care of our national af fairs, including taxes and public debt spend like drunken sailors and put the difference Detween in come and outgo on the cuff, the people are apt to do likewise. Like father, like son. Like government, like people. Conclusion: This is a wonderful world we're living in. We have more of the good things of life than any peo ple ever had before but instead of paying for it as we go we put it on Uie cuff and leave it for future generations to pay. Troublesome question: How ling can it last? UNCLE AL'S STORY CORNER by Alan Knudtson of KNUDTSONS' JEWELERS A man playing a cello constantly played the same note over and over again, sometimes staccato sometimes a long pure tone, but al ways the same note. His wife, noticing this peculiar ity, said to him, "Why is it that when other people play the cello, they play up and down the scale, but you play only one note?" "Well," answered the man. "That is because everyone else is look ing for the right note but I've found it!" This adamant positiveness is a common characteristic of young people, particularly noticeable when they are choosing their din nerware and other home furnish ings. What they often believe to be a fact can be stated something like this: All the other generations of people on earth were simply grop ing around trying to find the ulti mate in good taste, we, how-' ever, have found it!" It is with this erroneous idea of what taste is, that many young people set out to choose their chi-. na. crystal, and sterling. In the short space of this column it would be impossible to discuss so expansive a subject, but 1 believe a few statements might set us all to thinking about the subject with more of an open mind. 1. Taste fashion is not now and never has been static. It is con stantly changing, as a result of our changes in living habits, entertain ing customs, and changing fash ions. 2. If plainness is "in" today, you may be sure that ornatencss will be popular sometime soon; for fashions swing back and forth from one extreme to the other always have, and, undoubtedly al ways will. We had our "plain pe riods" in 17G0 to 1800, 1830 to 1850, 1010 to 1930, and 19-17 to 19B1. The intervening years were Ihe ornate periods in America. 3. Some materials lend themselv es to functional use in simple de signs others arc more practical when ornate. An example is ster ling, a soft, malleable metal, which, because of these characteristics, lasts longer and looks better after much use, if ornate. (Tho reason why a cowboy's sterling buckle and saddle ornaments arc highly engraved is to hide the scratches that get there through hard use). 4. Extreme shapes and tlesien will be as "daled" ten yrnrs from now as any object that bears the style stamp of the 1920's or vxw'f Examples in point are the unusual shapes found in china which are more "different" than practical. .Most people think that the plain rimless china coupe shape is the newest thing. Actually It's the old est. being the original shape the Chinese designed. It's sinmlr a re vival nf an old shape that looks new liecausc j hain't hnPn seen Ixlore by this generation. 5. Almost every person's lale changes about every ten years, sometimes along with the vogue, anil somrtinies Independent of it hut lws evolving If one's taste ri'tnains sialic, if is a sjn he has reached an etliit alinnal mid nil tlirul plalrati I) Miinv ileiuns of vaiiout nn tillllllll'S me as tasteful tinlay as they urie wli.ii ilesiyneil. because of the tleii(tier' understanding of Ihe fiiiirhniMl reiiiiirritienls of the oltieci Excellent examples of this tiutli uie Ihe tlesuns of Paul He vere i mure famous as a Hevolu Uonary palttnl than as one ol the world finest designer. I. Itrvete designs now t xeniiid In silver antl stainless steel rr often ipferretl l.t as "modern" r "riinrniairarv" b l.alav s j.ning iK-ople, but have been liiiorit.s f.ir tun hundred years At llns (wiiil. ii might lie good to Irmc sou tilth one of my laihrr's lavonte expressions: "Bad taste is almtvs in style " t Advertisement I
