A Chiller
i to pi a I f-a g.
2 Tht Newi-Rtview, Roieburg,
Tuesday's report of the great rash of
forest fires caused by lightning in Doug
las County Monday night was portentous.
A total of . 57 forest fires were being
handled in the county, all caused by '
lightning.
The great number of fires was indic
ative that the forests have become tinder
boxes, which could break into giant
torches at any moment.
The 32 fires being put out by ForeHt
Service crews in the Umpqua National
Forest were greater in number than the
entire total for 1962. Fire Control Officer
Homer Oft reports last year's total for
the forest was 23. Of this total, 15 were
man-caused.
With the rash of 32 in the Umpqua
National Forest Monday, the total this
year already is 59. Of this 59, 15 have
, been man-caused.
These figures do not include' the con
siderable number handled by the Doug
las Forest Protective Association so far..
Both fire fighting organizations are on
tenterhooks. They feel fairly confident
about being able to handle the rash of
lightning caused fires, but it is the more
insidious man-caused problem which
plagues them. With lightning, they are
alerted by foreboding weather. But with
man, the fires may occur any time and
anywhere.
The danger grows more every day as
Prevention Checks Needed For Cyclists
Bicycling is becoming a prevalent
activity for children this time of year
with the return to school. That's why
Roseburg Chief of Police John Truett of
fers some special warnings to parents.
He says parents should never assume
a youngster knows how to operate a bike
in a traffic situation. He urged them to
check the young riders on the rules and
then check occasionally to see tha,t they
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
Congealed
Season Is
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) So
now we come, ready or not, to
the end of another summer. Per
sonally, I'm ready.
One of the factors influencing
my attitude is the crime rate,
The crime rate, as you know, or
dinarily rises during hot weather,
and one of the leading summer
crimes is congealed salad:
If my calendar is accurate, it
will be almost nine months be
fore I have to eat another con
gculcd salad. Which alone is
cause for rejoicing.
Off hand, I can't think of a
more appropriate way to greet
the autumn, and the return of
uncongcaled table fare, than by
renewing my lectures on "Great
Dishes of the Western World."
For openers, I have selected a
dish that Is commonly identified
with cool weather dining. It's
name is chill con came.
King Orders Tobacco
The origin of this delectable re
past dates back to the Spanish
exploration of what is now the
Republic of Mexico. One day the
King of Spain called his explorers
into his office and ordered them
to discover some tobacco.
"What is tobacco, your majes
ty?" the explorers inquired.
"It's that weed that the Eng
lish explorers found in North Car
olina," the King explained. "The
Indians grow It. You hold it in
your mouth and it burns."
The explorers wandered all
over Mexico looking for tobacco,
but unfortunately the Indians in
that part of the new world didn't
smoke.
Eventually, they stumbled upon
a plant which was loaded with
cigar-shaped pods. "Maybe this is
tobacco," said one of the explor
ers, sticking a pod in his mouth.
Mitiat The Boat
It burned like crazy, causing
the explorers to believe that they
had hit the jacket. They took a
whole boatload of the stuff back
to Spain. Needless lo say, the
King was disappointed.
What the explorers actually had
discovered was a new type of
pepper plant known to the In-
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Forests Becoming Tinder Boxes
Salad
Over
dians as' "chilly." They called it
that because they couldn't cat 11
without something "chilly" to
drink.
The first person to serve it for
dinner was an Indian named
Barney. His friends would say
"Let's go over and have some
chilly with Barney."
The Spanish explorers, who
couldn't hear very well, translat
ed this as "chili con carne."
Today, chili con carne is served
wherever particular people c o n
gregate. I don't know what hap
pened to tobacco.
Opinions From
Natural Resource Grab
Attributed To Hatfield
To The Editor:
You arc so right about the
"hands-off" policy of the Game
Commission and the statement
that Gov. Hatfield is inconsistent
in his attitude concerning that pol
icy. Whether he is inconsistent with
the policy of the Fish Commission
remains to be seen, possibly be
cause the only hands-off policy of
the Fish Commission has is hands
off the gillnctters.
Gov. Hatfield now threatens the
people of Oregon with a drastic cut
in basic school support should vot
ers turn down the tax measures
enacted at the last session of the
legislature. He is going to lead the
fight to force the people of Oregon
to accept tax measures he thought
so little of he let those measures
become law without his signature.
Hatfield's attempted grab of dic
tatorship over Oregon's natural re
sources is inconsistent with his ac
tions on other matters. In that at
tempted grab he knew what he
wanted. Mr. Webster could use a
picture of Gov. Hatfield as a sym
bol to explain the meaning of the
word "inconsistent."
Joseph B. Ilulse
Star Rt., Box 14
Winston, Ore.
Less Concern For Other
Nations Urged By Writer
To The Editor: . .
The American market is
swamped with steel and cotton
goods marked "Made in Japan."
Canadian lumber is not marked
"Made in Canada." Why do we
import cheap foreign products that
compete with American industry
and add to our unemployment?
The reason American goods are
higher in price always is blamed
on the American workmen and the
"wicked" labor unions.
American workmen demand good
wages because they want to buy
American homes, automobiles, fur
niture and appliances. If American
workmen lived like Japanese work
men, prices would be lower, but
not low enough. Japanese imports
would still undersell American
goods.
Japan has one of the most mod
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1963
the forests continue to lose the vital
moisture which has kept damp the
great masses ofkindling caused by Oct.
12 windstorm.
And what worries the services most of
all is that the regularly high-hazard sea
son of hunting is still to come.
On several occasions, the governor
, has pondered whether or not to delay the
hunting season.' He will have probably
more reason than ever this year if the
weather remains hot and dry.
By that time, practically all moisture
will have been sucked out of the forests,
and even cautious hunters will be pro
viding a danger not seen in many years.
It can't be emphasized too strongly
that this is probably the worst potential
fire year in history. The state's fire
fighting machinery is the best it has ever
been, but even the best won't be able
to cope with the fire problems man can
cause in forests which have been shred
ded to splinters in many cases by the
big windstorm.
There may be some good weather
weekends yet this fall before the hunting
season and these, too, are making fire
fighters quake.
If ever a year there was to bend over
backwards to be cautious with fire in
the forests, this is it. Let's do our part
to help keep our forests jntact.
are following them.
It's not a spectacularly big problem
in the total picture of traffic deaths and
injuries, but it's notable. Truett points
out that last year 305 bicycle riders under
the age of 15 were injured in accidents
in the state. Four of these youngsters
were killed.
A little precaution on the part of par
ents is the obvious answer.
The Almanac
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 11,
the 254th day of 1963 with 11 to
follow.
The moon is approaching new
phase.
The morning star is Jupiter.
The evening stars are Saturn,
Mars and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1841, all members of presi
dent John T y 1 e r's cabinet re
signed, except Secretary of State
Daniel Webster, . in protest over
the president s veto of the bank
ing bill:
In 1940, Buckingham Palace in
London was damaged by German
Air raiders.
In 194S, former Japanese Pre
mier Tojo tried to commit sui
cide to escape prosecution as a
war criminal.
A thought for the day Wash
ington Irving, the American nov
elist, said, "A woman's whole
life is a history of affections."
ern steel mills in the world. It
was built and financed with Amer
ican capital. Raw materials to
make the stcql comes largely from
the U.S. The finished product is
sold in this country at a price low
er than can be commanded by the
American product.
Our government seems more
concerned about the welfare of oth
er nations than the welfare of our
own people. Our politicians need
not wail for Mr. K. to bury us.
They are doing an excellent job
without his assistance.
It is sad to watch a great nation
decline, to sec' citizens lacking
patriotism while others lose confi
dence in their government, when
greed for a temporary profit for
a few is more important than the
welfare of our country..
I say "temporary profit" be
cause in a few short years these
profiteers and politicians will all
be dead. But the great harm they
now indict on our nation will re
main as a lasting monument to
their folly.
Frank Liening
C. V. Rt., Box 545
Winston, Ore.
PTA Course Of Action
Urged For Tax Ballot
To The Editor:
Now that the budget is to be
voted on by the taxpayers, the
Oregon PTA has come out with a
course of action which I heartily
endorse. They urge all citizens to
(1) Register to vote. Voter regis
tration closes Saturday, Sept. 14.
(2) Obtain the facts. (3) Use the
team approach. Work with all
groups, and other interested citi
zens, coordinate your efforts for
greater impact. (4) Inform the
voters. Use newspaper publicity.
(I assume that letters such as this
would be classified as newspaper
publicity); telephone committees,
and personal contact. (5) Vote.
Time is limited start action to
day! Obtaining the facts is the hard
est of the five. The Albany "Great
er Oregon" is probably the lead
ing weekly of all the papers that
gives the facts from the taxpayers'
position.
An editorial from the Cottage
Grove Sentinel lists the two courses
of action that have been reported
U
By ROBERT C. RUARK
I suppose I am a touch naive,
but I have been following the tortu
ous processes of United Nations
reasoning for quite a lot of years
now, and I flat don't understand a
lot of the thinking involved.
We have had a hassel of interna
tional proportion lately, allegedly
attached to whether some Syrians
snuck over the Israeli border and
murdered a brace of farmers. As
this was written, Morocco and the
Soviet Union had succeeded in de
laying on a combined American
United Kingdom resolution con
demning Syria for a couple of bor
der knockoffs. The hits were de
scribed as "wanton murder" by
Israeli Ambassador Michael Co
may, and I am quite sure Comay
is right in-his description.
Mumbo-Jumbo Considerable
Of course there is a lot more
n umbo - jumbo about U.N. super
vision of truce, violation, Moroc
can amendments, and by the time
this sees light somebody will eith
er be condemned or uhcomdemn
cd. This I can understand. (Ed.
note: The Soviet Union killed the
condemnation resolution by invok
ing its veto power).
But has anybody offered to cen
sure the Congolese government for
supporting Holdcn Roberto's mur
Readers
possible by the "newspapers, and
then lists a third one: Quote,
"The third course of action open
that apparently legislators, state
officials and some organiza
tions are not cognizant of, or are
just ignoring, is a decrease in the
state budget. This would benefit
everyone."
Ben Musa says "a defeat of the
tax bill would be a mandate from
the people. We couldn't kick the
people in the teeth with new tax
es." Note that he says new taxes
and doesn't say new ways to tax.
The income tax changes in this
budget puts more load on the mid
dle and low incomes, with only a i
little increase on high incomes,
plus a whack at all who are living
on fixed income, or have no in
comethat includes most of the
elderly!
One of our legislators compared i
Oregon's budget to Idaho's, where
state taxes are much lower, be-
cause, he said, it is a lower service
state. If this would be what the ;
people want, it is a simple rlc-1
cision for the voters to decide j
whether they want more services!
or less taxes! To state it another
way: Distribute more welfare mon-!
ey, or hire more caseworkers? i Senate's two leading authorities
We are told that property taxes j on military affairs have come out
will go up if this budget is de-1 a g a i n s t the nuclear test ban
teatcd. It is said defeat would cut j treaty, indicating that ratification
the basic school support. Maybe j 0f the pact may be opposed more
it will. Will that necessarily ruin by Democrats than Republicans,
our educational system. 1 don't J Administration hopes for mini
know, but 1 for one would like to j mum opposition to the treaty
try it and see. 1 don't think it j wt.re dimmed last week by an-
would, but there is another aspect
to this that is seldom mentioned.
The men who spend our money
at the state level want the control
of the Basic School Support mon-
ey! why? The state spenders nat
urally want to handle this money
because on this level the taxpayer
doesn't have much of any chance
of control, or even of getting ac
curate information. It is the ten
dency of the state spenders as '
well as federal spenders to favor j
a bureaucracy that cannot be in
vestigated efficiently or controlled
by the people. If we can reduce
state expenditures I won't object
lo the fact is I will welcome
the equal increase - on property;
taxes at this level at which I have i
more opportunity for control.
Stacv Adams
Box 427
Yoncalla, Ore
N. Takes Odd
Stand On
derous onslaught against the inno-
cents, mostly black, in neighbor-
ing Angola on March 15, 1961?
Has- anything been seriously done
about Nasser's intervention into
lemen: nas anyDoay siappea uenmgsr or nave we already forgot-
Bella's wrist for his offer to "die
a little" to the extent of 10,000
20,000 men to bang down the Portu
guese overseas provinces?
At least 500 people died horribly
at the hands of drink-and-drug-crazed
mercenaries in Angola on
that March 15, and nobody official
ly said a word about people being
fed into sawmills, football being
played with dismembered babies,
pregnant women being impaled on
trees, and people generally being
hacked into hamburger by recruit
ed mercenaries from the Congo.
Not a word. How do we describe
murder and a threat to peace
i these days?
Definitions Asked
How do we define intervening in
other people's wars, such as the
Yemeni operation? Do we have a
sort of Bureau of Standards sched
ule for murder definition? How is
it so bad for a handful of Syrians
to kill a couple of Israelis when
500 die in Angola on a single morn
ing by this "border-crossing" the
U.N. makes so much of?
I do not know the answers to
these questions, which is why 1
ask them. I suppose U Thant might
tell me, but he spoke some gobble
degook on Cuba after his visit to
Castro, and his own country is
in trouble enough at the moment.
Dag Hammarskjold's dead, but
maybe his brother knows the an
swer. At least his brother knew
some of the answers lo an old
wound called Katanga.
Which reminds me again: Has
anybody satisfactorily explained
the United Nations' mercenary hi
jack of Katanga, in order to secure
the loot for the Central Govern
ment in Leopoldvillc a clear-cut
case of aggression against a self
declared independent country?
How was it bad for Tshombc to
personally hire mercenaries when
the United States picked up the
tab for the U.N.'s mercenaries in
the Congo? A mercenary is some
body who fights on orders to knock
off another country's turf.
Aren't We Meddling
What, for instance, is the United
Nations going to do about our blat
ant physical fiddling in Viet Nam?
Are we not meddling in other pco-
Senate Arms
A lil
Ul nOrlTIGS
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WASHINGTON (UPI)
nouncements of two key southern
senators that they would vote
against it. The Senate takes up
I the treaty Monday.
Both Sen. Richard B
Russell.
D-Ga., chairman of the armed
services committee, and Sen.
John C. Stennis, D-Miss. who
heads the preparedness subcom
mittee, said concern over possi
ble military disadvantages of the
treaty prompted their decisions.
A UPI poll of other members
of the armed services committee
showed two senators in favor of
ratification, three undecided and
one undecided by leaning toward
ratification.
Sens. Stuart Symington, D-Mo..
and Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio.
j were in favor of the treaty: Sens.
Sam J. F.rvin Jr., D-N. C, How -
ard W. Cannon. D-Nev., and J.
Glenn Beail, R-Md., said they
Murd
er
pie's internal affairs, when we
suddenly become disillusioned with
that dreadful Diem family, so full
of bad Nhus, and attempt a coup
that goes as sour as the Bay of
ten the Bay of Pigs, and where
was the United Nations on that
one, pray? Should not the United
States have been censured for at
tempting to mount a coup against
Castro? It was, after all, his coun
try. Right now if South Africa raised
a finger at Bcchuanajand, all hell
would break loose in the U.N.
halls. I do not suppose that South
Africa is angry at Bechuanaland,
but that doesn't seem to count
these days. Nothing was said when
Ghana made its pass at Togoland,
and it is, after all, Africa for the
Africans, as even Soapy Williams
knows.
Stupidity Pleaded
You will please foregive my
stupidity on these things, but I
cannot see how you can stop sell
ing arms to South Africa while
permitting Bella to raise men and
money to declare war against Por
tugal, the while admitting Portugal
as an ally in the NATO arrange
ment. We seem to have reached a
strange position in the United Na
tions, in which privilege is all, and
it just depends on who is doing the
shooting and at whom. If you ran
a government the same way there
wouldn't be any penalty for mur
der, but they might just hang you
for running through a red light.
(Copyright. 196) by United Feature Synd. Inc.)
Controversial Drug Element Not
Effective Against Animal Cancer
WASHINGTON (UPI) The , scientific tests "leave no doubt as
government said today scientific
tests showed that the primary
element of the controversial drug
krebiozen is a chemical agent
that was found to be ineffective
in treating cancer in animals.
The Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare (HEW) said
its scientists reported the Krebio
zen powder submitted for tests
was creatine an amino acid de
rivative found in human blood
and in muscle tissues.
"It (creatine) is readily avail
able as an inexpensive laboratory
chemical," the department said
j in announcing the results of com
' prchensive tests,
j The powder sample was sub
I mittcd to the Food k Drug Ad
ministration (FDA) last July 12
1 by Dr. Stcvan Durovic, who
The I claimed to have discovered Krebi
ozen,, and Dr. Andrew C. Ivy,
Durovic's chief sponsor.
The department said a scries of
had not made up their minds yet,
though Bcall said he planned to j
announce his stand this week.
Sen. Clifford P. Case, R- N. J.,
said he wanted to hear all the
closing arguments on the ques
tion before making a final de
cision, but added he had heard
nothing so far to cause him to
vote against the treaty.
Stennis' fellow Mississippian,
Democrat James O. Eastland,
said he also would oppose the
treaty, which bans all but under
ground nuclear tests. But Sen.
Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga..
Russell's junior colleague, told
! United Press International he had
j not yet made up his mind on the '
I matter. I
Two other southerners, Sens. J.
simm Th,,rmnnH n.c r .nj
! Russell B. Long. D-La.! also are
! expected to ommse the treatv i
Long cast the onlv vote against!
1 it in the foreign 'relations com-1
mittce but said he reserved the '
right to change his mind. '
At One Time, Rattlesnakes
Were Common In County
. It is said that as a person grows older his mind goes back
to experiences of days when he was much younger.
Perhaps that is why a report by The News-Review's
correspondent, Mrs. Durnin Swingley, writing about the
killing of rattlesnakes in the Days Creek area recently,
revived some of my old memories.
Today it is news when someone finds and kills a rattle
snake. It wasn't many years ago, however, when killing
rattlesnakes in Douglas County was too commonplace to
be considered worthy of mention in the newspapers.
lieiore work was started on the
North Umpqua Highway, soon to
be completed, there was a country
road which extended for a short
distance beyond Rock Creek. If one
went further east, it was on foot or
horseback. The only improved way
was a rough trail maintained by
the U.S. Forest Service.
No hiker would think of ventur
ing on this trail without first arm
ing himself with a stick. This stick,
was from six to eisht feet Ions.
was cut from vine maple, hazel i
or some other green shrub, so it
would not be dry or brittle. It was
an inch or more in diameter. As
such it would serve as a cane but,
more essentially, it was a de
fense against rattlesnakes.
Boys Armed
At times I helped with hikes by
Boy Scouts. We required all boys
to arm themselves with clubs. An
adult usually went well in advance
to locate snakes, if any, before the
boys reached the spot. Fortunate
ly we never encountered rattlers
on any of these hikes, probably
because the boys made so much
noise they announced their coming
and the snakes moved out of the
vay.
I'll never forget, however, a time
when I was making my way alone
on a narrow trail, which dropped
off on one side i hundred feet or
more to the river, and was al
most perpendicular on the other.
Hiking along with my head down
I barely caught myself in time as
my reflexes started me in a dive
over the cliff. A rattler had just
cut loose almost even with my ear.
I went back to find that he had
retreated into a crevice and I
couldn't reach him with my pole.
I know full well that I am the
holder of the world's standing
broad jump record. The trouble is
there were no official present to
record the gigantic leap.
Rattler Bunes
I was fishing the river near
Swamp Creek. There was a dry
wash only a few feet from the
river and paralleling the stream.
A small sapling had fallen across
the wash. I stepped over the sap
ling, heard a noise, looked down
and saw a huge rattler, coiled
within inches of my foot, buzzing
angrily.
I "sailed through the air with
the greatest of ease," as the old
song goes. I hit somewhere out
near the river. With a big stick
and some boulders I finally killed
the snake and have twelve rattles
and a button to prove it.
But. after all the scare' and ex -
citement, I lost what had been a
good and copious oreaKtast
On another occasion the man
who later was to become my brother-in-law
was with me on a fish
ing trip to -Steamboat and back.
to the identity of the powder Dr
Durovic labelled 'krebiozen.
The HEW said the krebiozen
sample was tested by various
methods including infra-red pho
tography, spectographic studies,
x-rays and crystollographic.
Concerning creatine, the de
partment said in a statement:
"Creatine is in muscle tissue
and in blood in lesser amounts.
The human body will produce in
24 hours as much as 100,000
times the amount of creatine as
the alleged content of 'krebio
zen' in one ampule.
"The chemical was tested some
time ago against animal tumors
in the routine cancer chemo
therapy screening program of
the National Cancer Institute.
"It was found to be ineffective,
even in very high doses."
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The
Editor's Corner
By Charles V. Stanton
We camped at night in a fine
grove. We saw a mound that look
ed ideal for our bed for the night.
As we approached, however, there
was a sound which we thought
surely was a rattlesnake. We jump
ed back, drawing our pistols,
yelling "buzzer," expecting a
s.iake to appear. Instead out
through a pile of dry leaves came
a flock of ground hornets. Our re
treat was without dignity.
Screaming Wild
Long after dark a party of fish
ermen arrived. They had hiked in
from Rock Creek to spend the
weekend. We noticed one fisherman
and his son spot the hummock
which had looked so good to us.
They rushed to the site and quick
ly spread out their blankets and
hopped into bed.
Moments later there was a lot of
wild screaming and the two fish
ermen leaped out in then under
wear and went tearing through the
nearby brush, yelling at the top
of their voices. The sound of their,
screaming blended-with the laugh
ter my friend and I no longer
were able to suppress, despite stuf
fing our mouths with the corners
of our blankets. .
The two came back, retrieved
their bedding and clothing with
forked sticks cut for them by their
friends and made their bed else
where. Boy, did we get dirty looks the
next morning!
3n 2),
Cjone (J3y,
Taken from the files of the New
Review ,
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1923
Sixty-five high school student
registered in Roseburg yesterday,
58 of the number being seniors,
it was reported today.
Revolutionary radicalism, Bol
shevism, IWW-ism and similar
movements would become almost
obsolete, if the people of the
United States really understood the
' Constitution, Garland W. Powell of
the Americanism Commission of
the American Legion, declared in
a recent bulletin to workers in
his organization.
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1938
More farm land should be made
available not only for newcomers
who are coming to this state in
increasing numbers, but also for
the younger generation of Oregon
farmers, it is declared in a report
just published by the state plan
ning board, it was announced by
Ormond Bean, chairman.
The report estimates that 751,
000 acres of agricultural land could
be developed through 30 irrigation
projects listed in the report.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1953
It has happened every Thursday
for 40 years at Sutherlin, but this
Thursday's Sutherlin Sun is some
thing special.
It is a celebration of the 40th
year of publishing a weekly paper
every Thursday. The biggest edi
tion came off the presses this
Thursday, the Ruby Edition.
LOST TOM UCEKSE TO CHIVE!
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