Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1963)
(Editorial fag. 4 The Newt-Review, Roteburg, Ore. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1963 Patronage System Is Outmoded One of the few places where political patronage on the local level can operate is being threatened. Bills which would eliminate congres sional influence in appointment of post masters were introduced jointly this month by Oregon Reps. Edith Green, Robert Duncan and Al Ullman, all Dem ocrats. Their bills provide that the appoint ment of postmasters "shall be made completely through the Civil Service merit system, without regard to any rec ommendation (except a statement as to character or residence) which may be made with respect to an applicant for such position. ..." ;The legislation would not affect any postmaster holding office at the time of rts enactment. I The three Oregon Democrats said they Believed "the series of recommendatory grocedures commonly used ... is un necessarily complex and outmoded." Un der the present system, a patronage fiummittee makes a recommendation to 3, central committee, which makes a fecommendation to the congressman who makes . a recommendation to the postmaster general, who makes a rec ommendation to the President, who makes an appointment to which, in most Distances, the Senate must give its ad vice and consent. They said further they felt legislation Cwould properly place the appointment ilf postmasters in the selective civil serv ice and away from the political in fluences of the past, and in addition, would eliminate a time-consuming job, cJJle that we are sure is all too familiar to the members of this Congress. The statement continued that con gressmen and women are asked to rec ommend applicants "who we may not even know and in effect, we disqualify persons whose experience and qualifica tions are too often not even considered. It seems to us that advancement and ap pointments based on merit would also raise the morale of personnel and result in strengthening the postal service," they conclude. Their reasoning is sound, but one of the snags may be the central committees which would be cut out of the picture by the law. It is virtually the last place where patronage is used. In the appointment of the Roseburg postmaster, for example, it became a major issue after Republican Postmas ter Clyde Carstens retired. On the face of it, a Republican was best qualified for the job. But a Democratic administration was elected, so the Democratic Central Committee recommended a Democrat. This doesn't mean present Postmaster Robert Snider isn't doing a good job. He apparently is, but he could have been far less acceptable than other candidates without a consideration of merit and background being involved. We agree with the three representa tives. A fairly technical job such as this should go to the man whose qualifica tions are strongest both in experience and proven ability. Besides that, with all the hands rec ommendations must go through, a post master is almost old enough to retire be fore his appointment becomes official. The General Lends a Hand A r v ( 7 Mi1' Bruce Biossat : Space Age President -To Serve As Traveling Required Diplomat as Jiti'id V'- Jot -In The Day's Mews- By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, there is ONE , his visit to Peterhof, "to get rid big story. It is as old as mankind. It is the great levelcr. It reminds us that we are all hu man beings, living 'TOGETHER on this ball, spinning through space, that we call The Earth. With that, let's leave it. It is a story that mere words can't tell. From Cheddington, England: A gang of masked bandits am bushed a mail train near here and escaped with at least $2.8 MIL LION in cash and gems. Working with clocklike precision, they pull ed off the world's greatest train robbery in just 15 minutes. There were reports that the haul may be as much as $8 million, but the official estimate stands as $2.8 million. of visitors I haven't time to see." He wandered on through the fab ulous old palace (apparently just strolling around all by his lone some) and came to anoUier foun tain that shoots a spray onto a bench at irregular intervals. He found there a group of Rus sian children playing a game. The object of the game was to sit down on Uie bench and guess Uie time of the next burst of spray accurate ly enough to get out of its wav without getting wet. He joined in the game. His timing was bad. He GOT DOUSED. The Russian children adored it. They howled with glee. They took to the American secretary of state in a big way, laughing and ap plauding. The Secretary of State of I the U.S.A. apparently enjoyed it Shades of Robin Hood! And Dick just as much as the Russian chil Turpin. And Jesse James. ' drcn. That is more money than lhe i At any rate, the reporters tell us,.. I three of them rated as perhaps he made a tremendous hit. He I the greatest robbers of all- time ! hi-jacked in all of their lives one ! reason being that back in their days there wasn't that much mon ey to be taken. The world gets bigger and big I ger. j Whether it gets better and bet ter is open to discussion. must be a pretty good man for his job. History tells us traits like that can sway empires. Ward Class Had Than More Pals U. S. Secretary of State Rusk is much in the news these days. His pictures are in the papers and on the TV screens all over the world. Reading the recent news, one comes to the conclusion that may be the pictures don't do him jus tice. They give an impression of sol- ' emnity and a touch of shiftiness. Clara became parents of a son, i Michael Gene. MARRIAGE FIRMS OJAI, Calif. (UPI)-Thc mar riage that skeptics predicted would never last was cemented even firmer today with the addi tion of a baby son to the Ojai home of Bobby and Clara Minis. Back in February of 1956, the skeptics scoffed when Bobby, then 16, and Clara, then 14, were married after Ventura County Superior Judge E. Perry Church ill and their parents gave their consent. Earlier this week. Bobby and By ROBERT C. RUARK The passing of a procurer is no great occasion for moaning at the bar, especially when the exodus is a bug-out effected by the pander cr's own hand. But I cannot but feel that the late spine-cracker, i Why this judgment? j Well, day before yesterday, the news columns tell us, Secretary , , , , . , Rusk found himself free for the quasi-artist and sweet man, Doctor vertebra-snapper and short-order moment 0f the heavy burdens of oiuijneii waiu, nau muic tmso man m um. statecraft. So he left Moscow and some oi nis nrougni-aown associ- New Aspect Seen ates in his impact on our time j War(,,s immoral 10rdc inaIly put Christine Keeler - John Profumo- curity, I -thought. If a War Minis- COAL MINERS STRIKE etcetera extravaganza reflected no , tcnce that Jack Proamo cxhib cretin on u.e wonu p ess unu . s , j(ed Jn hjs dcaings witn U)e worl(,.s In the months ahead President Kennedy's conduct of his office quite naturally will come under severe and unrelenting Republican puufire. After all, the GOP wants the, office, and you don't get it by arguing that it is already well lillcd. But the Republicans might learn a lew hard lessons from Hie Dem ocrats' tactics in pursuing the of lice., four years ago. If docs not seem wise lo try to" define loo sharply what the operations of the presidency should be. Kennedy attempted this when he was on the outside watching Dwight D. Eisenhower conduct the A 2). n one 1-JU a Takn from the files of tht Newt- Review office. And Kennedy has wound up I should be the onq leader to hold doing many of the very same himself rigidly within four walls? things Eisenhower did. When Kennedy gained that pow- Kor example, Kennedy the cam I 40 YEARS AGO - Aug. 12, 1923 Macks of Oakland recently inndc application for a patent for an- automobile brake that is de viled to stop within the space of thece feet without skidding t h e wheels. President Coolidge is engaged in formulating his policy lo protect the public against another coal stQko this winter. The keynote of hi policy is "There shall be no stilikc!" - 25 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1938 yimmy" Roosevelt threw the long discussed matter of his in cuinD before the American public today and declared in massive terms it was much smaller than a lut of people thought. After a three day lull, fishing is again up to par at Diamond Lake, according lo manager of the lake resort George Howard. Also he states the detour around highway construction has been shortened and much improved. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1953 Classrooms in the new Douglas High School will be completed by Oct. 30. In the meantime grades 8, 9, and 10 will go to school at Lookingglass and the Lookinggiass pupils and teachers will be housed at Dillard School. 545 S E. Mln St. Published Dtfly Except Sundy bv iJitWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. Rostburg. Oregon Telebhont 4734311 Entered as second ctess matter Mey 7. 170. t thf post oftlce at Roseburg. Ore Don, under act of rAarch 7. 1173. J. V. Brenner Publisher The News-Review is member of the United Press Inlernellonal, NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. National Adve-islng Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co.. Ris Building, San Francisco, Calif. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier and Roseburg P. O. Boaes 1 month, I1.75J a months. SI0.5O; 1 year. S71.00. 1 By AAail in Oregon: 1 month, $1.75; 3 j months, tl.50; a months, S'.oo 1 oar ll.W. Outside of Oregon: ! month, 11.75: jeaA l lorois 'suiuoui !5t ft 'sgiunul c ' $41.09. paigncr was highly critical of Ei senhower for his "traveling di plomacy." Visits to India, Europe and elsewhere were assailed as essentially useless exercises. Bui Kennedy himself has just complet ed such a (rip. Eisenhower often was attacked for not staying in Washington more. The charge was, of course, that when he was out of town lie was neglecting his job. Compara tive figures indicate that Kennedy is gone from the White House at least as much as Eisenhower. A good many Republicans al ready have taken up similar as saults on Kennedy. If they win the office in 1964, the chances arc overwhelming that they will have to cat the same crow Kennedy ate when he got the job. What is involved here is more than just the technical fact that the White House in practical ef fect moves with the president wherever he goes. The point Is that the presidency is in considerable part a display office. Leadership of this great nation in 1963 and beyond is not accomplished by chaining oneself to the White House desk us a virtual prisoner. Today the great currents flow easily and swiftly around the globe. The leaders of all great na tions recognize this by hopping about constantly tu meet their counterparts in other lands, to study world problems, to get the fee! of things. Are we lo suggest seriously that in such an era the President of the United States, the most now crful single executive on earth. er, he forgot his criticisms of Ei senhower and chose to move about just as the general had done. Who ever follows Kennedy most likely will do the same. i.i lieu ill ma uuaiiiius Willi uie wuuu s i understandable desire to pander to 1 0i.iest mob,Bm, bit is no wonder OV1EDO, Spain (UPI) - More. " coarser interests ol a peopic.)at Britain ,ost mos( of i(s best than 15,000 coal miners were re- U can t remember a story since maml00(1 at jIons. The leadership, ported o be on strike, today m the Lindbergh kidnaping which was friend seems l0 be iacking ' the Astunas section in Spain, covered more intensely. ! ;, .,( . , . Eight mines were shut down. The ,t DoeSn't Count !i iri h t m,t Perhaps Liz and Richard rcceiv- ;jn the hay it is small wonder that strike began when miners pro tested they had not been paid a bonus granted them in previous e"a , . . luu-'' Cleopatra made such an impact on voovB nn llin Ilv 1 nnn vrnrtarv UIUUSBU, UUl U115 was a 5UII Ul ; , slnrV W t l her asn went up to Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, to do a little sight see ing. In Pelerhof Palace, the former home of the czars, he became in trigued with the fairy tale foun tains of the ancient palace. He says he has a personal use i for one of them an innocent pile of rocks from which a spray spurts when a button is pressed, some 1 distance away. "I could use one of ! those in my office," he said after ttMImFfBOMSa jiiPlli I A swimming pool is a small body of dirty water entirely sur rounded by the neighbors' kids. years on the July 18 anniversary of the Spanish civil war. j WASHINGTON WINDOW Defense Department-Wastes Millions Of Dollars Yearly Hcloise and Abelard stury the i (Copyright, 1963 by Unilcd Feature Synd. Inc.) basic recounting of the simple love of a simple girl for a simple other lady's husband, with the discarded I simple troubador singing simply I sadly from the wings. This had j press-agentry and a long, dull pic-1 ,,...,. , . .. . turc mixed up in the epic, and so ; ,BV United Press International does not count in terms of purest 0r"day ls Monday, Aug. 12, the raw emotion "tin uuv ui isroj wan in iu 101 The Almanac V it's coining... NATURAL GAS - will you be ready for if? Reader Opinions Mental Health Group Calls For Facilities The Mental Health Association of Douglas County will huvc a dis play booth al the Douglas Counlv Fair Aug. 14 to Aug. 18. It is hoped that those attending the fair will make it a point to stop at the booth and receive some free liter ature on the recent progress in menial health. II is extremely important dial citizens ot Douglas County under stand what the recent decentraliza tion of the State Hospital in Salem means to our community. It is a community project to see that men tal health facilities are available locally. Many people, when thev hear the term "Mental Health" think first of "Mental Illness." and "Men tal Health" is far more than mere ly the absence of "Mental Illness." Mental health is something all of us want for ourselves, whether we Know it by name or not. When By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The American taxpayer would be well advised and within his rights to demand that the nation al Defense Department make better use of the said taxpayers' money. Or, maybe, some alert member of Congress should call the Pen tagon to account for some of its torn fool methods of doing busi ness. The angry taxpayer and alert member of Congross need do no more than lo refer lo the numerous reports by the comp troller general of the. United States on the wasteful practices ot the Pentagon brass, military and civilian. Joseph Campbell is the comp troller general. His job is to audit (he books of all spending depart, ments and agencies and to tell Congress what he turns up. What turns up is a shocking story of waste, extravagance and stupid ity. notably in the department of national defense. In a single mail this week were throe reports from Campbell, each running about 25 pages and each relating that some fathead in the Pentagon had wasted another bundle of the taxpayers' dollars. Unnecessary Spending There was, for example, the re port on "unnecessary annual ex penditures by the Departments of the Air Force and the Navy for leasing commercial facilities to store petroleum products in the San Francisco area instead of using excess government owned petroleum facilities at the Navy fuel department, Point Mo late, Richmond, Calif." Campbell reported that the Navy's surplus oil storage capa city at Point Molntc averaged 450,000 barrels for the past three years. But the Pentagon has been leasing nearby storage facilities with a capacity of about 432,000 barrels at $305,500 a year. Pure waste! There was another report on I "the increased price for ballis tics computers resulting from ex cessive estimated material costs under a department of the Air Force contract." Campbell esti mated that this one wasted about $8.1.800. The third report described the deplorable unreadiness of the 3rd When I am dealing with sociologi cal stories of many dimensions, nut nf xnmmiccinn fnr in,.i- r m. i such as Britain's War Minister low. pair parts that the regiment was unsatisfactorily equipped to per form its strategic mission al the time it was ordered overseas dur ing the Berlin crisis." Forty of the 5t M48 medium tanks were out of commission. Eighty of 85 M59 personnel car riers were useless. Of all combat vehicles, lanks, self propelled howitzers and self-propelled mor tars, 91 per cent were out of commission. A shocking situation. All the mure shocking because Campbell makes a great many reports to Congress each year and, roughly, more than half of them relate to national defense and usually spotlight its wasteful practices or some such costly goof as crippled lhe 3rd armored. The sum" involved in these wasteful Pentagon practices may be mere peanuts compared with the $o5 billion defense will spend this year. But it isn't peanuts to the working stitf from whose wage every week the wasters lake their cut. sharing the same sack with a Rus sian intelligence agent, for an un specified fee for the tart s moth er's old-age pension, I always seek a high source for comment, The moon is at its last phase. The morning stars arc Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1867, President Andrew John- nnnn,-n,n I ?t. ..... c !" "f!.IP?f? '"int ecrey ' w.r. In 1877, Thomas Edison com pleted a crude model of the first talking machine. In 1898. a peace treaty ending j the Spanish-American War wasj signed. In 1936, Germany s Nazi gov our senior statesman, Air. Her mini Baruch, for edification, and extracted what I thought was a trenchant quote. "Well," said our adviser to Pres idents. "They ain't doing anything exactly new." People No Good Exactly new or not, it has been a long, hot summer, and in a cli mate of hydrogen bombs and sus picious friendships with the Rus sians, Chinese checkers on an In dian chessboard and a certain con fusion about how much you can legally steal on expense accounts, the tragi-comedy of Ward and his harem of dingy doves has come happily as a reassurance that peo ple are basically no damned good. : and that even a War Minister ' looks funny when he is apprehend-1 cd in his underwear. ' A rather elegant lack of nobility attended all of the participants in OJPrWKWraJ. i eminent announced it would not intervene War. in the Spanish Civil I A thought for the day Amer ican essayist Henry Thoreau said: "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear." GAS ! APPLIANCE DEALER DIRECTORY 30 -GALLON GLASS-LINED DAY & NIGHT GAS WATER HEATER 10 YEAR GUARANTEE tins saga, especially wnen t He; GAS RANGES I goon names tailed to step for ward to be counted against the al I legations of involvement in the old est story ever told the way of a s.i l.'M runt, t-,.. .. . . . muiH wim a man wnen sne is oui i Phil, lumber industry l.-.h..r ,n. .li lor. .hot buek- T1,e octanage otSrs RMxk & Co. thorp we mpr'o i- ... !. caddishncss. or the number of Record Number Working In State Bergh's Appl. - Firestone Store Horn's Appliance Montgomery Ward & Co. Appliance in OreRon hist month Vh.n f , lt bums involved, was very high in- Jury in history. Department of Emnlmmpnl Commissioner David Cameron put the total at 732.800. This was 300 less than the June working force. Unemployment dropped lo 32, 900 in mid-July. 1,500 less than a year ago and 2.500 less than in June. South Stephens Hdwe & Appl. Western Auto Assoc. Store ... GAS DRYERS 07MUI I i;:-33 i 3-SSU i A73-JB1! j 472.1700 j 473-M73 I 672-351 ! 7M5J! I deed. Cast Tawdry This is why 1 say poor old Doc 1 Fl'"'" Ward, the aging quack who kept the fees of harlotry so the girls wouldn't lose them in the buses, was the noblest member of a rath er tawdry cast. After he did the Dutch with a handful of pills, he slill remembered to tell a chum : that the oil needed changing in Cameron explained the loss ot , his bequeathed motorcar, as he ob 7.400 jobs in the state during thcviously was fretted over the state month in (he stale and local gov-1 of the gearbox, eminent catagory resulted from I " was this solicitude which made lhe June closure of educational Ward such a capable housemother institutions. i for his flock. He was not a man Timing of the crops resulted in ,0 scnd a 'rl int0 ,he front-line a 1.400 decline in canning and 'rcnches without seeing that she preserving jobs. The big job gain came in non'la"s- . . . Firestone store . 7!.aj manufacturing where there were i " a als0 s"ea a refreshing light : Montoomery warn a, co. 7i-aau i 47J-33S6 Horn's Appliance 473-5518 i Montgomery Ward & Co 672-4811 I Phil's Appliance Co 672-1700 Sears Roebuck & Co 673-6673 South Stephens Hdwe 8. Appl 6723751 GAS WATER HEATERS Coen Supply Co 673-4161 Gerretsen Bldg. Supply Co 677-2636 Hansen's Plumbing & Heating ... 679-6705 Harris Prumbino & Heating 673-8173 Jensen Plumbing 673-8542 lohn Nelson 673-322 I Ken Gum Plumbing 673-4698 j Kler Crooch Plumbing 672-3364 i Montgomery Ward .8. Co 672-4811 ; Sears Roebuck 8. Co. 673-6673 ! ihad fresh knots in her cat-o'-nine- GAS SPACE HEATERS Munion Healing 8. A-r Cond Torer Heating & Sheetmetal Vow's Heating & Air Cond. 22.300 more iohs than a vpar sen I on the morals of our time. He in-1 wunion Heating These gains included 7.800 in sisted. for example, that the mere sr Roetmck a, Co. contract construction: 3.8uo in!fact lhat girl took money for GAS FURNACES armored cavalry regiment, al trade: 3.200 in services and 5.500 sleeping witn strangers diet not strategic Army corps unit, whcn in government. make her a prostitute not. at it was ordered to Berlin in the I The lumber industry labor dis- least, so long as she did not adapt miliimn pricic nf lQjftl Thi ssitlia-1 nutp h.-iil 11 000 nprnn mt nf : the nrostitute mpnt;llitv In hpr we speak of happiness, or peace of i tion developed for lack of repair! work in mid-July, about the same chores. He also made a rather GAS IR CONDITIONERS mind, or enjoyment, or satisfac- parts for combat and other motor' as the June figure. keen definition of a non-procurer. To"r Mti" sneetmetai tion. we are usually talking about I vehicles. Agricultural employment wa s : Evidently you are not a procurer imiiioi iiiaiiii. gut For Repairs j down almost 11.000 from last J-ily. if you keep all the ".noney and; ly C. Layer "Our review disclosed." the re- i The decline was largely because don't give the girls anything at all : Garden Valley, j purt said, "that so many combat the strawberry harvest was com- except tender, loving care. "Sued : Roseburg vehicles of the 3rd Armored were pleled by mid-July this eor. .man" was invented for the late i 473-5460 673-4673 473-5460 472- 337? 473-eOS5 CAUrORNtA-PACiriC UTILITIES COMPANY REGULAR PRICE $89.50 LESS TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE $30.00 YOU PAY ONLY 50 SEE YOUR PLUMBER OR DEALER TODAY CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC UTILITIES COMPANY Pacific Building Roseburg Ph. 672-1653
