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Editorial fag. 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore.- Who Would Roseburg buseball fans suffered a ter ; rible blow to their ego when the Oregon champions in the first round of the Amer ican Legion junior baseball Little World Series in Keene, N.H., took such a solid beating. Stage fright, which without question was responsible for Roseburg's downfall, was the last thing many fans expected. Yet it is a feature which marks nearly every tournament. And stage fright isn't exclusive to youngsters, as any follow er of the World Series, a golf tourna ment, or ether big playoff can attest. Yet the average Roseburg fan wasn't expecting stage fright to hit the local squad. . . Bill Harper, who has had such mark ed success over the years with the Rose burg squad, worked hard this year, and in former seasons, to prevent this very thing. One of his coaching philosophies is that boys learn to play ball by playing ball. The Roseburg team had played 61 games during the season, prior to enter ing the nationals. Furthermore it had played before some big crowds. It must be considered, of course, that the biggest crowds were friendly crowds. Yet stage fright would be one of the last things , to be suspected on the part of the Ore gon champs. Still, perhaps, there was, after all, good reason to anticipate the occurrence. The Oregon team is composed of young men most of whom had crossed the continent for the first time. They had experienced a jet flight, something new to most, if not all, members of the team. They had traveled the longest distance. They were from a small town, whereas THE LIGHTER SIDE: ( By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) When I was but a toddler, my parents were so poor they had to take in boarders to make ends meet. This made a lasting impression on me. It wasn't being poor that made the Impression, however. It was one of the boarders. Miss Hippie to be exact. . Miss Hippie was a school teach er and a woman of considerable girth. Every night after supper she would go into the living room and roll around on the floor. Some nights I would go in and roll around, too. . Miss Hippie rolled around be cause she was trying to reduce. I rolled round because I just hap- Reader Opinions Appreciation Expressed By Alaska Legion Team To The Editor: First of all our heartiest congrat ulations on Roseburg's winning the Regional Tournament and good wishes for continued success at the Nationals. I wish to lake this means of ex pressing gratitude to all 12,561 per sons in Roseburg, plus those in surrounding areas, who so gra ciously accepted our Alaska Legion team and made our boys feci such a part of Roseburg. Speaking for the team and coach ing staff our feelings were that we were playing to win for Alaska and Roseburg and are sorry we were unable to do better. However we arc proud of our team's cforts with our number one pitcher win ning with a very sore arm and another pitcher going, unknown to us, live innings with a broken an kle. The people of Roseburg should be proud of their town, their hospital ity and their desire. In Anchorage, Alaska, there are sixteen boys and four men who will never forget Roseburg, Oregon. Again, thanks. You people were wonderful! Clyde H. Clary, Coach Alaska American Legion Team 125 E. 5th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska 545 S. E. Mln St. I Published Dally Except Sunday by NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. Roseburg, Oregon Telephone 472-3M1 Entered lecond class mailer May 7. 110, ei the poil office et Roseburg, Ore gon, under act of March 2, II7J. J. V. Brenner Publisher The News-Review Is member of the United Press International, NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. National Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co., Russ Building, San Francisco. Calif. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier end Roseburg P. O. boxes 1 month, I months. SlO.SOj 1 year. $71.00. By Mell In Oregon: 1 month, U.JSi I months. S4.30I months. If M I year H.OO. Outside of Oregon: 1 month, 51. 75; 3 months. Will t months, UOJOi I year 1)1. uo. Have Expected The "Jitters?' Rolling On Floor Helps His Psyche pencd to like rolling around. Gats Rolled Over Our living room floor was sort of canted and when Miss Hippie started rolling she sometimes had trouble stopping. One night, quite accidentally, she rolled over me. Childhood effects people in 1111 ferent ways. Some people who come from poor homes are ob sessed with making money. I grew up with a morbid fear of exercise. Being rolled over by Miss Hip pie gave' my psyche a perma nent scar. Not to mention what it did to my silhouette. After that night, whenever - I saw anyone taking exercises it was all I could do to suppress a scream. Only recently have I been able to conquer the phobia. For this I Eive credit to a new booklet published by President Kennedys Council on Physical Fitness. Program Of Exercises Titled "Adult Physical Fitness," the booklet presents a program of exercises in such a way "that even the eldorly, the inactive and the overweight can perform them." A' funny thing, though. In the photographic illustrations, the models who are demonstrating the exercises are young, ebullient and svelte. Anyway, I took the booklet home and turned to the page of warm-up exercises. They consist ed of 10 bend and stretches, 20 knee lifts, 20 wing stretches, 10 half knee bends, 30 arm circles and 20 body benders. That left me completely out of breath. I figured that if I got out of breath just reading about the ex ercises, there wasn't much point in doing them. So I got down on the floor and rolled around for awhile. It was like old times. Rolling was fun again. The booklet had stripped away all of my inhibi tions. This shows what exercise can do for a person. I may be as flabby as ever, but I'm not afraid any more. 3n 2)aiJ T.ktn from the files 40 YEARS AGO August 27, 1923 A crack 10 feet wide and 700 feet long was opened in the side of the volcano Kilcauea by an earth quake and rivers of lava arc pour ing down the side of the mountain. Cy Williams, Philadelphia center fielder, stepped ahead of Babe Ruth today when he drove his 33rd home run of the season. Nine freight cars were derailed this morning at Lcona, the cause of the accident being a broken wheel on one of the cars. 15 YEARS AGO August 27, 1938 Capt. George E. T. Eyston smashed the world's automobile speed record to shreds at Bonne ville Salt Flats, Utah, today, boost ing his own mark to 345.59 tnilec TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1963 other teams represented much bigger lo calities. They were carrying a heavy load of desire and responsibility. Consequent ly they were apparently "tight as fiddle strings," as the saying goes, whereas baseball requires players to be relaxed. That Roseburg's poor showing in the first game was very definitely tied into the "jitters" is the fact that the team made more than a dozen errors. The Roseburg team has a fairly high rate of errors for the season, but a great many of those errors stem from the fact that the players go after balls that are extremely difficult to handle, and often make throws on a gamble rather than playing carefully and cautiously. This spirit of daring, taking chances, running, taking advantage of breaks, paid off for the Lockwood Motors squad during the season. . But Roseburg had few dropped balls, wild throwing, mental lapses, and other costly errors prior to the first game in the nationals, a fact which proves with out question the reason for the humili- ation suffered by the Oregon champs in the first round. Whether Roseburg will be able to shake off its series jitters and stage a comeback probably will be known soon after this column appears in print. To re main in the series the Oregon represent atives must settle down to serious busi ness. They're meeting the toughest compe tition they've had all season. But they still compose one of the best teams in the meet, providing they play the style of ball of which they are capable and which they have shown so often during the course of the season. The Almanac Today is Tuesday. Aue. 27. the 239th day of 1963 with 126 to fol low. The moon is at first quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Chinese phliosphcr Confucius was born on this date in 550 B.C. On this day in history: In 1660, the published books of John Milton were burned in Lon don. In 1859, the first oil well in the United States was drilled near Titusvillc, Pa. In 1904, the first automobile driver to be jailed for speeding was given a five-day sentence in the Newport, R. I., tail. In 1928, t h e Kellogg - Briand Pact to outlaw war was signed by 15 nations at Pans. A thought for the day: Dwight Eisenhower said, "A soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner s chains. Camas Valley Opening Set August 28 The Camas Valley public schools will open on Aug. 28 for a full day of school. All buses will run on their regular schedule, school lunches will be served in the school cafeteria, starting the first day of school. A teacher workshop will be held by superintendent, O. J. Monger, at 10 a.m. on Aug. 27. Camas Valley will start with a complete staff of teachers with only three replacements from last year's list. The new teachers include Mari lyn Mnthcney, second grade: Har old Kirk, fifth and sixth grades and Ted Drake, eighth grade and assistant coach. Bill Welch has been moved up to the head coach position to replace Bill Levins, who has resigned to enter the armed forces. The gymnasium has been paint ed inside, with accoustical tile and stage curtains also installed. The primary building and science build ings have been repainted outside. The curriculum has been im proved in the science department with a full laboratory period in pnysics, along with a new method of instruction by the science teach er, Phillip Wilbur. The administration expects a aniens increase in enrollment. Cjone $i of The News-Review per hour. His old record was 311.42 m.p.h. A tropical hurricane out of the Carribcan sea today threatened southwestern Texas today. Three years ago a young man in Kctchum, Idaho, saw a brilliant Klittcrinn object on Trail Creek but did not bother to investigate. This summer he noticed it again and took a closer look to find i 200 lb. bar of silver about $1,300 10 YEARS AGO August 27, 1953 A series of brief downpours plagued Portland with flooded streets yesterday afternoon. In eight minutes, nearly a quarter of an inch of rain fell. In 40 minutes .42 of an inch was measured. Work and play will be combined today in an all-day fixup. cleanup session at Camp Tyee, Camp Fire Girls camp on the Umpc.ui River. News Analysis J By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Despite the tensions of war, Saigon remains one of the loveli est cities of the Orient, a city of smart shops, comfortable hotels and beautiful girls bicycling in silken trousers along tree-lined, shaded streets. There can be ugliness. There is the tossed grenade in a crowded cafe. And now there is the tension between the Buddhist majority and the government, and the accompanying hideous sight of an aged Buddhist monk turning himself into a flaming torch in a Saigon street. But for sheer physical beauty the city has few equals. There is then an almost night marish quality to Saigon dis patches suggesting that the gov ernment would reduce Saigon to ashes to keep itself in power against a revolt which the presi dent's brother and chief adviser says he regards as "inevitable." This brother and close adviser of President Ngo Dinh.Diem is -In The Day's Hews- By FRANK This space today will be devoted to the story of Vern Owens, Don Kirkpatrick and the Little Old Lady. I think maybe you'll like it. The Little Old Lady lives in New Zealand and, like many of us, she has an itching foot. And she had long wanted to see the U.S.A. So A little while back, she took 'off. She came by ship to San Fran cisco. From San Francisco, she came by stage to Klamath Falls. The stage paused here for a brief rest period, so she took off for a walk on Main Street. And In the window of Vcrn's store she saw an electric appliance that was just what she wanted. It was a fry pan with a coil in the bottom and another coil in the lid. She went in and Vern demonstrated it. It was just the ticket. The min ute she saw it, she knew she want ed it. But She was starting on a long trip. And the fry pan would be bungle some to carry. So, reluctantly, she passed it up. From here she went by stage clear around the perimeter of the U.S. Up the coast to Vancouver, B.C. Frqm Vancouver she wound back and forth along the Canadian U. S. border, clear back to Quebec and New England. Thence down the Atlantic coast to Florida, then along the Gulf to New Orleans. From there across Texas, New Mexico and Arizona and eventual ly back to San Francisco whence, when the time came, she would take off for her New Zealand home. But. She still wanted that fry pan. She simply HONED for it. And it couldn't be had in S.F. So she TOOK OFF AGAIN FOR KLAM ATH FALLS. And. as soon as she arrived, she headed for Vern's store. Mean- The Suspense Is Murder! Saigon Contrasts Beauty, Ugliness Ngo Dinh Nhu. In a stern lecture to Victna-' mese generals, whom he accused of inadequate precautions against the expected coup, Nhu is report ed to have said in such an event i the city should be razed and the ! government, if necessary, t a k c to the mountains. With only a ruined capital re-j maining, lie said, the plotters could not last three months. ! Nhu is a devious man who or-1 dinarily prefers to operate be hind the scenes. His wife is the beautiful Mnie. Nhu whose stern views against dancing led the United States Embassy in 1962 to cancel a square dance for its teen-agers. Living in the presidential pal ace with bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, they are two of the most influential persons in South Vietnam. Nhu runs the secret police and reportedly tells the president which army officers should re ceive promotions. Nhu frequently has accused the JENKINS while, however, Vern had sold out of the fry pan gadgets. But Don Kirkpatrick had one in stock, and Vern knew it. So, as a good merchant should, he sent the Little Old Lady down to his competitor and Don clos ed the sale. The Little Old Lady then hasten ed back to Vern's store to thank him for his courtesy and to tell him how proud she was going to be when she got back to New Zea land and showed her friends and neighbors what she had found in her travels. At this point, it occurred to Vern that in New Zealand their electric current is different from ours as many an American has discovered to his sorrow when he first tried to shave with the foreigners' elec tricity. So he explained the situ ation to her. It didn't bother the Little Old Lady. "Oh," she said, "my elec trician can fix that in a jiffy. But it's nice of you to tell me about it. You Americans are wonderful." She then hastened back to the depot, caught a stage back to San Francisco and from there she caught a ship for New Zealand. This thought in conclusion: Jlere in Southern Oregon, we are eager to stop more tourists. Some thing like a million tourist cars go through our area every season. On the average, each car spends $23.60 each day it remains here. But most of them stay only about one day. 'How can we induce more of them to STAY LONGER? Well, if EVERY tourist who pauses in Southprn Orppnn sen i greated as courteously as Vern and i Don treated this Little Old Lady from New Zealand, it wouldn't be lone until we were cfnnnino Mil . LIONS of tourists here in our amazingly beautiful area. Soon the word would go out that "those' people up there in Southern Oregon are SIMPLY WONDER ,FUL. and if you want to enjoy 'your vacation that is the place to go." United States of encouraging an abortive revolt against the Ngo Dinh Diqm regime in 1960. This time, he says, any new at tempt at a coup d'etat would be both anti-American and anti- Buddhist. Mme. Nhu has accused the United States of bringing pres sure to stop her own anti-Buddhist statements including one that the women of South Viet nam should clap hands at each new Buddhist burning. Nhu's threat to burn the city ignores Die fact that for the gov ernment the act would be as sui cidal as the tiery deaths of Bud dhist monks. But Nhu in the past has been suspected of creating emergen cies for his own purposes and this threat could be interpreted as a warning to the U.S. .that its own future in Southeast Asia is inextricably tied with the future of the authoritarian Dinh family. The conflict between the Budd hists and the government has gone on for more than three months and the Dinh family is on the defensive. And meantime the Commiyiist enemy has been the gainer. This is the situation into which Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. moves this week as the new U.S. ambassador. GEMS, MONEY AND MORALS Postal Inspectors Keep Watch For Fradulent Mail Schemes By HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States mail service has achieved such a solid reputation for fast and safe delivery that mil lions of dollars worth of jewels move through its channels every months. Most jewel merchants prefer the U.S. mails to trans portation by private guards and armored trucks, and in 1958 when the Hope Diamond was sent from New York to the Smithsonian In stitution here it came by regis tered mail. This high record of perform ance, of course, tempts thousands of peddlers of fraudulent schemes and merchants of pornography to use the mails. To fight them the Post Office Department deploys 1,500 postal inspectors around the nation. These men seldom perform deeds that create big headlines as, for instance, does the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nor do tney attempt to wrap, themselves in a thick coat of secrecy as do the men of the Central Intelligence Agency. But they arc among the most effective of all federal investiga tors. The pay-off is not how many persons you arrest in a year, but how many convictions you obtain. The postal inspectors move quiet ly, gather their evidence care fully and win convictions in 99 per cent of the cases that go to court. The American public is highly Eullible when face to face with a gct-rich-quick scheme. It is im possible to say how much swindlers obtain each year be cause many of the suckers are so ashamed that they never report their losses. But the Post Office Department can say with certain ty that the figure is at least S83 million annually because it has a record of those cases. Year after year people fall for the same fraudulent tricks. 'Attitude' Should Be Basis For Licensing Auto Drivers A few days ago I reported the actions of a teen-ager I observed abusing an automobile and the traffic laws. It was my opinion ho believed himself to be a real "hot shot." He flattered his ego by his demonstration. Yet any person with a knowledge of mechanics and of proper driving con duct knew that the young man was far from being the good driver he evidently thought himself to be. Since that column appeared I have had a good deal of comment some' favorable some unfavorable. Older people have generally been complimentary and in full agree ment. We've also had some teen agers express appreciation for an indication that they weren't "squares" because they tried to operate a motor car properly. On the other hand, some teen-agers have indicated they felt I was "picking on them I would hasten to make it clear : that it was, and is, far from my in-, ! tent to disparage the teen-age driv-i er. The number of "squirrel" driv-1 ' ers among teen-agers is few, a i very small percentage. But, by ' their irresponsible antics, they all i too often bring indictment against teen-agers as a class. These irresponsible drivers point up a phase that to my mind rep resents the core of our automobile driving problem. But how to meet or cure the situation is another matter. I'm sure I haven't the answer. But those persons, irrespective of age, who operate a motor ve hicle in a careless and dangerous manner, who consistently violate traffic laws, who endanger them selves and others, and who are fool ish and demonstrative in operating a motor vehicle are, in my opin ion, only letting their inferiority complex show. A psychologist would find, I ail sure, that these antics are perform ed for the purpose of satisfying self and impressing others. The driver exalts his own ego by a vi olation of the rules of safe and proper driving. But this type of driving isn't con fined entirely to teen-agers. Statistics show that a fairly sub stantial number of adult drivers never really matured. Psychology would tell us that people in this category never out grew their toys. Some people treat an automobile exactly as they treated an electric train. The automobile becomes a toy something to play with. The fact that it is a lethal weapon is of no more concern than the un trained youngster gives a loaded gun. A good many people hold to the idea that license to drive an auto mobile should be withheld until a young person is out of high school. I can't go along with that philoso phy. Driving an automobile, I believe, is a matter of training and prac tice. Even if a person isn't granted a license until he's 21 years old, he would still be an inexperienced driver. True there might be a small number who would have a little better judgment. But that number, I believe, would be ex ceedingly small. At the same time you'd still have those people who never grow up and become respon sible. The proper method of licensing automobile drivers, I believe, Stephen Singer was convicted of mail fraud in Los Angeles early this year for telling people he would get their songs played on me raaio. fostal inspectors say he took in $200,000. Kenneth P. Chamberlain was convicted in Wilmington, Del., of defrauding 125 persons of about $400,000. He sold counterfeit stock certificates or, in some cases, altered legiti mate certificates and sold them. Hundreds of persons are con victed every year for swindling the public with promises of pro viding lucrative work that can be done in the home. There is a heavy traffic in por nography through the U.S. mails, but a good bit of it is on a small scale. Sometimes it involves only one or two persons who exchange obscene letters and photographs. Usually these cases are disposed of with a fine of $500 or less and a period of probation. The pun ishment is heavier if it is devel oped in court that the accused person is a wholesale dealer in obscenity. Another quick way to get into trouble with the postal in spectors is to mail obscene ma terial to persons at random. Charles J. Nalewak of Shamokin. Pa., got a prison '.crm of from three to five years because he had been mailing obscene material to all young women whose names or photographs appeared in the news paper. Most of these cases are dis posed of quietly, but occasionally the postal inspectors become in volved in litigation that gets in ternational attention. Sometimes it calls for a judicial opinion in answer to this age-old question: Is it art or is it obscenity? One of the biggest such cases went to trial in Philadelphia in June before federal district Judge Ralph C. Body sitting without a jury. The defendant was Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros Maga The Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton would be determining "attitude." How that could be accomplished I'm sure I don't know. ; But so long as drivers, be they teen-agers or adults, must feed their ego by showing off; so long as we have those who haven't yet outgrown their dolls and trains, we'll have enough irresponsible ; living to maKe our death and accioent ton a serious aitair. . , n, fflannfllltPC RflfsY 1 wlIIUMIIICe UUll i m I a ' ff Qfl AlQSKGIl I TID : r ' By MRS. G. B. FOX Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stein of Glen dale have returned from a 6,000 mile trip which took them to Fair banks, Alaska where they visited with their son, Airman First Class Gene Stein and his wife and chil dren. They left here June 29, pull ing a 16 ft. trailer, and arrived early in July at their destination. Mrs. Austin Turner and children, Joe and Mary of Glendale drove to Klamath Falls to the home of Mrs. Turner's daughter, Mrs. George Marlow. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Chaffin of Orovillc, Calif., ' visited recently with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Martin of Glendale. The Rev. and Mrs. Arnold Dalke of Azalea enjoyed a week's visit from her brother-in-law and sister, the Rev. and Mrs. Ray Johnson and family of Omaha, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stevens of El Paso, Tex., visited in Glendale with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Coy Stovall, and other friends and. relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams and family of Evansville, Ind., have arrived to visit several days with her father, Ed Opperman, her brother, Vic Opperman, and fam ilv: and her brother-in-law anri sis. j tcr, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Elst and family. Don Harbour of Glendale, who was severely burned recently in an accident at the Robert Dollar Mill, returned a few days ago from treat ment at the Good Samaritan Hos pital in Portland. No skin trans plants will be necessary, it is said. I LITTLE UIX I All women golfers hovt handicap it's called a girdle. zine, Documentary Books, Int., and Liaison News Letter, Inc. In this case the Post Office De partment was nudged into action . by the public. It got more than 35,000 complaints from citizens who received through the mails advertising describing Eros Mag azine as "a new quarterly devot ed to love and sex." The ad vertising also offered a publica tion called "The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscu ity." Ginzburg had acted cpenly with no attempt to be secretive about his project. Advertisements for Eros and his other publications had appeared in magazines and had reached nation-wide distribu tion. His case was that what he was distributing was not obscene. The court disagreed and on June 14 found Ginzburg guilty on all 28 counts of the indictment. He filed a motion for arrest of judgment and was released in S10.000 hail ; pending a hearing next month. I The Post Office Department regards this as a notable victory because it is a sort of legal I precedent on the distribution of j magazines through the mail. It I also encourages the miblic to take an active interest in the fight to j keep obscene material out of the 1 mails. Any time a federal depart ! ment gets 35,000 letters it knows it has to act and quickly. One job the Post Office De partment doei not particularly rciish is dealing with the 2 5 mil lion pieces of propaganda mail that comes into the country each , month from behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains. Since Januai; it has been required by law t impound Communist propagan da and so notify . the person to whom it is addressed. Unless he requests that it be forwarded, it - is destroyed after 20 days. . 'V U 1 i.
