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(Pa 9 Page A-2 The News-Review MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1963 For Orderly Government, 'Yes' Vote Needed The plan by proponents of t h e state tax bill which will be at stake in a referendum vote next Tuesday was to lay the facts before the peo ple. It was heralded as an information campaign. The reasoning was tha the public was intelligent enough to see these facts called for a "yes" vote. Many of the organizations and most of the legislators have contin ued in this channel. They feel the budget can be defended on its mer its. Although neither the budget nor the tax structure set up to raise the money for it are perfect, they feel a "no" vote will cause chaos in opera tion of state government. These people who continued that approach should be commended. But a lot of department heads and offi cials of the state have gone at the problem as if they were intent on bringing about a defeat. They have attacked the question not with forthright answers but with a parade of scare statements which have in Borne cases reached the lev el of downright misstatements. Those wanting rejection of the state budget have been just as guilty in the mis statement department. Oddly enough, the misstatements from those wanting to save the budg et have been immensely more dam aging to the cause than those wishing a "no" vote. Many voters consider the "rack and ruin" statements from some of the proponents as threats. It's a tragic fact that many votes may be swayed by an emotional, rather than an intelligent, considera tion. This newspaper still stands firmly for a "yes" vote next Tuesday. But it isn't because of a fear that any state programs will be cut back by' 25 per cent. It isn't because of a fear that educational institutions will sud denly start closing doors on every level. And it isn't because the change in the tax structure is perfect or even close to it. We feel that a "yes" vote is justi fied because it is good business. The premise seems reasonable that if the budget and tax structure are reject ed by the voters, a special legislative session is almost certain. It will be costly ($1,800 a day in expenses to legislators alone) and the legislators will be back in session with pressures so great they cannot do a systematic or methodical job. Only stopgap measures will result. We feel the budget is justified be cause the figures show unequivocablly that the number of youngsters in grade and high schools and colleges is still climbing spectacularly. More students naturally mean added costs, and taxpayers have increased in numbers slower than children. Al most 60 per cent of the budget is as signed to meeting this growth in pu pil populations. We feel the budget is justified be cause Oregon voters have left little doubt about their desire for the services included. These services will be pinched to the hurting point by a legislature which may see a "no" vote as a mandate to cut out some of those services. We feel the budget is justified be cause new taxes such as sales taxes cannot be integrated into a well planned program without more time for study. Such a tax would probably also be referred. We feel it is justified because op . ponents have come up with no rea sonable alternatives to the present bill. The cry to cut taxes is not enough. The first step must be a cut in expenditures and only inconse quential or illegal cuts have been sug gested by opponents. Although legis lators' salary increases, for example appear excessive to many people, a cutback to the previous salary levels would reduce the proposed increase less than 1 per cent. We feel it is justified because the state is already spending the money on the basis of expenditures approv ed by the legislature. It's like buying a house with a mortgage based on the salary you make and then get ting a cut in salary. And finally, we feel the legisla ture has been shaken enough so it will tighten government expenditures even more at the next session. This tightening should be in a much more orderly manner. "You Mean You Bagged That With a Blueprint and a Box of Tools?" The Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton Everybody Gets Civil Rights Lash 'Few' Describes Number Of Columbia Fishermen Recently there was a communication in the Read- ci vjimuiio buiuiiui Alum wuiiu uui llliaeu, tllUCcll 01 my opinions concerning gmnet lishing in the Colum bia River. He particularly took exception to my use of the word 'few" with reference to the number of jommercial fishermen and my statement that com- v mercial fishing was a parttime operation for most of them. He also asked if I had ever stood on the hill at Astoria to look over the bay at night to see the hrDta used by gillnetters. "The river looks like a city," he said. As I have said previously, as: ; ' ncrson nets older his minri!ln8 idle time, to take our Armv often reverts to experiences of "ties out to the end of the jet- many years ago. Cornilsen'sjty. and shoot these pests. They letter brought back to my mind"eretl small target and gave events of long ago, apparently j us some Sooi practice in marks- condition mat aates me. mouaiiiii. vyc mum snoot as Indeed, I have stood above the mueh ?s-w? plea?.ed: A11 'hoi- Columbia Bay, not once but'."- qu" . was we must many times, to see the boats of i1"'" " Vuply cara-ioges w me gillnetters at night. , II ollr tar' That's one reason I use the word "few." Today the number Lr T,. V- en' ?ow" is less than 700 and is consider-1 f1; dldn.t confine their shoot- ably less than last year. The. " -"" - "una. number of gillnetters has been! l'ilot houses of the two boats dropping steadily. j werc simply riddled with bullet But I can recall when boats "U1KS- Jla usnermen sought by the thousands could be count cd in the mouth of the river dur ing salmon runs. I was a member of the Oregon National Guard at the time World War I was declared. Ours was a Coast Artillery company. We were federalized at Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia. Fleet Seen revenge for the way in which their gear was destroyed. For tunately for the pilots, however, they were below the line of fire, being protected by the breadth of the boats. Only the roofs of the pilot houses bore the brunt of the attack by the fishermen. Boats Commandeered The boats were commandeer ed by the U.S. Navy soon after Opinions From Read ers By ROBERT C. RUARK It would be difficult to com pute the political or profession al future of a heavy-set lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., after his vocal outpouring the other day, but it might please Mr. Charles Morgan Jr., aged 33, to know that if there were an award for bitter, honest appraisal of a dreadful situation, he is my can didate for the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for sheer guts. Mr. Morgan, who has repre sented both black and white cli ents in civil rights cases, crank ed up and threw punches at nearly everybody in Alabama restricted to. Negro churches, destined to ride in Negro ambu lances to Negro wards of hospi tals, and from there to a Negro cemetery." In allocating responsibility, Mr. Morgan blamed "each citi zen who has ever said, "They ougnt to kill that nigger; every citizen who votes for the candi date with the bloody flag' every citizen and every school board Tiller Definitely Not For Sale, Letter Says To The Editor: Umpqua river. propaganda being put forth, for The 155 acres and houses be- and against the proposed $60 ing advertised for sale is lo- million income tax increase, I catcd in part of this communi- am sure that he is completely ty. Some of the other homes confused after reading the pro- . iir- - t 41 uul " , ., ' '0 ; and b usi nesscs could possibly be! posed law as set forth in 20 city owners and residents of... ., '. ,,,", ' . , ., Mm. v.mM.t TiNnr l-.L-., nvnnnlinn I., """" the repeated advertisements sale. Bud and Jane Porter and 21 other Tiller residents ami nnlnrintv in vnnr nnrl nttwr leading newspapers both in and out of the state that! our town of Tiller is for sale.! The townsitc was named for , , . . K. , Aaron J. Tiller, who was grant- OUth America Needs ed a claim by the United States More Like BetariCOlirt of America In a patent dated Dec. 17, 1890, and was record ed May 21, 1898. Todav. though unincornoralcd. our town is comprised of thei reader who stated that Prcsi- who'mi do hfm"; D"!ted . Past sev I". i.r Th inrh.ripH whli rnin. cral J"53 l the popularity of,lCwwrlh'' isters, businessmen, parents, newspaper editors, politicians and judges of complicity in the Birmingham bombings, lie even wrapped himself in the general cloak of guilt. A - r11 mnnhlel fnt national ' " n .- . . . ., . ..... . ; yuicia omi'iiicii . ... DV F K AIM K JENKINS for! There are 19 amendments and . "Vll. ""j. " J T'" 10 repeal, of existing laws of """1 , Zh rise from the ashes, and its people with it. But basically there is a need; member and school teacher and to applaud a man with Mr. principal and businessman and Morgan's courage and convic- judge or lawyer who has cor-tlon. because if Birmingham rupted the minds of our vntith. floes arise from the dead, it Every person in this com- "1 De men lllte Lawyer Mor- duty. At the same time we iliuiliiy WHO nas. in anV wav 6" wui uimg n uain lu cuuiu icdu uuiiiiiluullidUUIls ue- uie uuce inure. iwecn uuais. ai limes sucn corn- One of our tasks was guard the war slarlpd Thov .or,i duty. Many and many times 1 1 during the war in various caDac- itics. As a testimonial of their speed they were so fast that they were permitted to go without convoys, as they were able to evade tor pedoes launched from prowling submarines. Yes, Mr. Cornilsen, I've stood on the hill above the Bay of the stood on the parapet at Fort hatred is at least as guilty, or 'sevens looKing oui over me ... ... ,bay at the fishing fleet. more so, than the demented fool 0ne of tne first lhings an ar. who threw that bomb. tilleryman was required to learn ' Birmingham is not a dying.in those days was signalling city, he said. "It is dead. I think it is possible that Mr. Morgan is wrong about Bir mingham being dead. It will we learned to use wig-wag, semaphore, and blinker. Com munication between fishing hW9n that ,.. hpfn,-o rariin i Columbia and have seen fisher- was in use. Flashlights were used to communicate over con siderable distance. We frequently used flashlights lo talk back and forth with com mercial fishermen during the long nights we were on guard men at work a lot more fish ermen than are concerned with gillnetting today. 1963, by United Syndicate, Inc.,) purchased but the pages of the Voters' Pamphlet TOWN of TILLER is not !-In The Day's News- Feature! munications weren't printable. I recall also that two of the fastest passenger vessels in ex istence were in a virtual state of war with the Columbia fish ermen. ORS Oregon Revised Statutes) I tne rhetorlc t0 match answered At the Whiskeytown dam dedi-jan increase of 152,045 since the onri lim.ti n rr,n l simple question before a cation down in Shasta county I960 census. The Los Angeles meeting of the Young Menfs Bus-i the other day, President Ken-city planning department says iness nuo. me qucsuuu: neay 101a nis ncarcrs mat our "Who did it? Who threw that1 nation faces a tremendous need Negro or a. for new recreation facilities for and approximately 250 referen ces to other existing laws chapters, sections, subsections nrlHilinns and deletions. If vmi would purchase a set of ORS;bomb? Was il nn fnn wim, white?" ly $125 and study the proposed law for a month nr two vnil Several months ago your pa-woukl n0 douDt be still con- per printed a letter from a uscj And then we have the $5 filing fee. Maybe a poll tax To The Editor: u flenl Itnmltln flnlanrnurt of Ven. following Businesses: A U.S. Post Office, nursery and gar-ezuela was a Communist. I wasncx( dens, tavern, a leading gas'"1"" ' accusation as 1, jr you are opposed to the $60 station and auto repair, a pros-l had always understood that Bet- minion increase you are said perous cafe, a nationally knownl ancourt was one of the chief t0 be opposed to education. That oil company bulk plant, a large! reasons Venezuela has not gone not a fact as this increase truck and auto service station and a supermarket. To our knowledge, none of theso busi nesses that comprise the active community of Tiller is for sale as a town. We have a public school con sisimg ot eight grades, a com munity church, an active PTA and a local trap club that has existed for many years. Also, interested persons will find located at Tiller, two For est Service districts. The South Umpqua and Cow Creek dis tricts employ 120 people in their peak seasons and transact ap proximately $2,000,000 in timber1 communist. The article "What the Com munists Plan for Latin Ameri- starting on page 205 of the Header's Digest for October, proves conclusively that Presi dent Bctancourt is strongly anti-Communist and that he has made reforms in Venezuela which have prevented commu nism from making any very papular appeal to the common people such as diverting some of the profits from oil into schools, hospitals and' much needed agrarian reform The article points out that is only partly for higher education. Apparently, after considerable debate, the legislature practiced economy by cutting the gover nors appropriation for civil de fense by approximately $70,000, and this would have been matched by federal participa tion. The people voted legislators a 'blank check ' for salary in crease. They did not practice economy when they raised their pay from $1,200 per ses sion to $8,400 per session. i ne 1963 legislature wilt no white "And the answer should be," Mr. Morgan said, "We all did it." The 'who' of 'Who did it?' is really rather simple," Mr. Mor gan went on. "The 'who' is ev-! ery little individual who talks nhn.il thn n nnaro' anrt enrnnrie .i, f hie hat. tr. hiseck will be still further reduc neighbor and his son. The joke- population that will reach 350 MILLION by the year 2,000. At the same time, he pointed out that the work week has come down from 58 hours to the present statutory 40 hours. He added that as machines TAKE MORE AND MORE JOBS FROM MEN the work ed, thus leading people with more time on their hands and with an increasing need for rec reation facilities within the reach of the average person. Question: How will it leave them in the way of dough in their pockets with which to PAY for the rec that two-thirds of this growth occurred in the San Fernando valley, which has added 101,330, for a present total of 840,000 persons). President Kerr of the Univer sity of California, who presided at the San Francisco meeting, made this statement: "Popula tion forecasts for the year 2020 57 years from now indicate that California will then have 60 MILLION people more than the present population of t h c British Isles." He might have added that it will be equal to a third of the present population of the United States. What of Oregon With an area about two-thirds Ships Fast These vessels, the Bout well Has Opportunity To Save Face BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Mayor Albert Boutwell Satur day had a fare-savini? nnnnrtnn. G r e a t itv if ho ianiH nnn Northern and the Northern Pa-iNnorn imn fr L w. cific, were operated by rail-gr0 policcmen witnout a r. roads bearing the same name. ; , i,w .i.. .u. 2"?,"". h'o demonstrtionr at. x .avb, iia, naiuiin. niiu. n,Ln , . . . , San Francisco. They were the fastest things afloat so fast, in fact, that the antiquated in struments used at Fort Stevens committee recommended Fri day that Boutwell make an im mediate public statement that the city would employ Negroes as police when they qualified under civil service. Boutwell had no comment Friday night, but sources close to track targets had difficulty keeping up with them. They used no pilots as they crossed the bar. Instead, they usuallv came in at nto-ht. and moved directly and at high 10 u,e mayor muicaled the corn speed to their dock at Flavel. I mittce was asked for such a On the way in they made no recommendation, pretense of trying to avoid nets The mayor and city council spread by commercial fisher-repeatedly have refused to talk men. Instead, they usually dock-, to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reation facilities they will need that of California and a present And I population of only about 1,800,- In San Francisco the othcnOOO day, there was a meeting ofi some 300 business, political, edu cational and civic leaders. The purpose of the meeting was to Arc we jealous? Not on your life! With a population of 60 MIL LION in California, Oregon will tOllimiiniSIS USUaiiy rCSOri lO'rinnht ho tnnien horonlW sales. More than 125 patrons arc'nub violence only when they j "The Legislature of Big Spend servcu uirouKii me iiucr rosi " ........ .u juiiiiL-di;Crj," of other peoples money. B. R. Shoemaker, M.D. 507 Elizabeth St. Roseburg, Ore. The Almanac Office, excluding those on a'pnrlics and governments cithcrl rural route to Drew. ,oienly or insidiously, which There are perhaps 20 private seems to account for the corn homes and rentals. We feel wejm"nist mobs which have done' are the center of our surround- so much damage to property re-- ing logging operations, forestry.!-'C'tly in Venezuela, agriculture, cattle raising aiidi They tried to take over labor ranching. We welcome new in-junion leadership, but Retan dustry and the public to cnjoyicour' kicked them out of that the tnanv hnnofite nnt m-onlaml when thev atlomnlnd tn can offer. Six modern Forest gain control of education, he 287,h day of 1963 wlth ' fal ser vice maintained camp-Personally brought about the;1; .. Grounds, rxcelloni hii,. nj dismissal of 1.500 communist1 .The moon is approaching its fislrmgjmthe scenic South Public school .cachers. ,, u ; . ,f'V moving star is Jupiter. iuch a man TTJiS .Ji. U re Jupitcr South America would be much! Tho. k' ,j ii..j. ! Today is Monday, Oct. 14, the start a program designed to! have enough customers just meet the problems of Califor- over the line to the south to con- fast growing metropolitan sume just about all we can pro duce. (The population of Los Angc- Not to mention a practically les has just reached 2,634,000 j unlimited number of tourists. ster, the crude oaf whose racial jokes rock the party with laugh ter. The 'who' is every governor who ever shouted for (lawless ness and became a law violator. It is the courts that move ever so slowly, and newspapers that timorously defend the law. It is the coward in each of us who clucks admonitions." "Who is guilty?" Mr. Morgan said. "The moderate mayor elected to change things in Bir mingham and who moves so slowly and looks elsewhere for leadership? The business com- mnntlv whioh hlIIPS its shoill' rlor. unr! Innlte tn the nolice?" ma .S Tin nl,n ottflotoH lho milllfi. h ters of Birmingham, who have done so little for Christianity, who call for prayer at high noon in a city of lawlessness and, in the same breath, speak of our city's 'image' "Did these ministers visit tho families of the Negroes in their hour ot travail?" he asked. "Do they admit Negroes into their ranks at the chapel?" -w "The city is reaping the bitter 40 YEARS AGO ,and is carried bv over 500 news- harvest of a decade of telling 0ct u m papcrs across the country, got school children the opposite ot A man suspectcd 0f being one his start bv taking a $20 mail what the civics books say, ne ot lhosc impiicatcd in the rob- order course. Todav he has left told the businessmen. ,D.rv of . Southern Pacific train a million . dollar loparv n mm. cd with the prow liberally fes tooned with nets picked up dur ing the upstream jaunt. There was no protection af forded sea lions and seals in those days. In fact, it was be lieved that these aquatic ani mals preyed on salmonoids. and the Rev. Fred Shuttles- worth, calling them "outsiders," but have held several meetings lately with police officials to consider hiring Negro police. This was one of two demands the anti - segregation leadeW made to the city this week, Nealy all fishing boats carried it,r,:n j ... lnrlarl xiflne nn.l fl I U I MI& a lliasa UVIllUliaUd iuuulu i into ai.u nail.-, iiiuu auui every seal could see. tion campaign within two weeks "u" if they were not followed. The demand was for hiring of 25 Lions Shot Negro policemen and face-to- The water around the mouth of face meetings with city officials the jetty was alive with sea. to discuss equal employment lions. We were permitted, dur- opportunities for other city jobs., Taken from the files of The News-Review HEAEI at' & S45 SE. Main St. Published Dally Except Sunday by NtWSREVIEW PUBLISHING CO. Roieburg, Oregon Telephone 67MJ2I Entered as second class matter May 7, 170. at the post oltice ai Roseburg, Oregon, under act 01 March 7, 1173 J. v. Brenner Publisher safer it it had many more Bet ar.courts. Evelyn Bowen Route 3, Box 1572 Roseburg, Oregun Resident Says Voter The News-Review Is a member of the P,mLrts X, l( aiiiiyiiiui S3 wiiiHam United Press International, NEA Service. Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ore gon Newspaper Publishers Association. National Advertising Representative Is Newspaper Advertising Service Co., Russ Building. San Francisco, Calif. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES I Carrier and Roseburg P.O. BcMes s month, iijji 1 months. SI0J0; I year. il 00. By Mall In Oregon: 1 month. 11.71; a months, w.so; a months. tt.OOj I year aie.w. uuisiae of Oregon: 1 month. 11.75: 3 months, IM5 i months. SI0.S0; 1 year 171.00. To The Editor: u is a cny wnerts sum mu,nejr Medord Thursday w a s ic characters to amuse the Negro girls can be born into alscm jn tne vicinitv of Roscburg world, second-class school system. live;today near ,he ,orks of tn , YEARS AGO er President Dwight Eisenhower.) scgregaica i n., b""" """ North and South Umpqua riv-l Oct. 14, W3 in 1890. tlieir own uuie neisouumuvus, ers. He was rowed across the in lobs, tne Normans defeated King Harold and his English forces in the battle of Hastings. In 1912, former President Theo dore Roosevelt was shot in Mil waukee and refused to have the wound treated until he delivered a scheduled speech. Very recently approximately "LiSi - . ... - ? i 350 000 registered voters of helm " ' state of Oregon were mailed quarte in East Berlin. me voters- rampnict lor the, a trmnnht fr,r tho h. Th. special election to be held Oct. rtujan novelist, Ivan Turge 15, 1963. - nicv. said: "I aRrce with no it tne average voter and tax-. man's opinions. I have some of. corrconv wait for no man. payer was contused by the my own." I . .. ......... r v, yy river by A building permit for $247,000 Roseburg man, and.iwas issued yesterday to J. C. M 4m 1 n Q i r aPP!"v"1llv headed for Winches-iPenney Co. for construction of ter. The Roseburg man later' the company's new store on (became suspicious of his ac- Jackson street between Lane tions and reported the incident1 and Cass streets, according to to the sheriff's office. His de-ithe city building inspector. Man- auiiMiuii i-umui mi-u lu uiai 01 aer Druce .111011 sain mis morning mat construction one of the train robbers. 25 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1938 The creator of the "Popeye" scheduled to begin this week and will be completed by April 1. Barbara Graham, the "I want Time ond tide ond the finance) comic strip, E. C. Scgar, died to live" woman, was sentenced at his home last night. Scgar, I yesterday to die in San Quen i cartoonist and creator for the tin's gas chamber for the mur- famed "Thimble Theater" com-! der of crippled Mrs. Mabel Mon- 'ic strip which featured Popeyeiahan of Los Angeles. THE KLAUDT INDIAN FAMILY sis- tf-'va W 9 p Notion ally known Indian Gospel Singers, Musicians, Minister ond Missicneries. Tht Klaudt Indian Family will appear ... IN PERSON FIRST CHURCH cf The NAZARENE 1134 S. E. Douglas Rowbura TUESDAY, OCT. IS, 7:30 P.M. 7