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Another Dry Spell 'Jit on a l fa Reader Opinions e 1 1 p JPoge 4 The Newt-Review Tax Preference Poll Should I. The tax preference ballot conduct .' ed by The News-Review brought re suits far beyond fondest expectations. And it should prove of great assist ance to the county's three legisla tors when they go to Salem Nov. 11 ' for the special session. Well over 700 people took the time to fill out and return the ballots. This made possible a profile of gen ! eral feelings, but many people de- cided their answers needed more ; explanation. As a result, the pro- files were filled in nicely by scores . of comments explaining why the I votes were cast the way they were. The importance of these comments ; was emphasized in three sections of the vote. A strong support was seen I for a sales tax without exemptions ; and a cigarette, tax. But at the same ; time, a great number of people (in ; a ratio of about two to one) voted '. for no tax increase of any kind. This ,' didn't seem to make sense at first, ; but a pattern of comments soon ; made the idea clear. These people were willing to have a sales tax and ; cirgarette tax instituted if it were ; not going to be an "add on" tax. V They called for its use as an offset . to either property or income taxes ', or both. ; "1 believe the sales and cigarette ; tax should be used with a provision for decreasing income and property ' taxes," said one reader to emphasize 1 her vote. . ; Still another pattern which de ; veloped considerably was a desire for neither new tax sources or in ; crease in income taxes. One writer ' said, "No increase at all. How many times do we have to say cut expens es." Probably the strongest trend was against an increase in the income tax or institution of a state property tax. The votes here were overwhelm ' ing. m$ Mitor s lorner Firms Should Study Idea Of Farmland Tree Crops Here in Oregon we count on a cycle of from 75 to 125 years to bring Douglas fir trees to commercial size. New Zealand is just getting a start in manufac turing Douglas fir lumber from trees only around 30 years old. Intensive cultivation of the Douglas fir species, says a visitor from New Zealand, has been shown economically feasible. New Zealand now is starting to harvest Its first Douglas fir trees, as a part of its lumber industry, although the trees were planted during the time of the Great Depression. wnal we call "Douglas fir" Is known In other parts of the world as "Oregon pine," ac cording to R. A. Barton, a sen ior lecturer in Masscy Univer sity, New Zcaland.who was a recent visitor in Roseburg. Although his primary study Is animal husbandry, he was in terested In tho timber situation in Oregon, where New Zealand procured tho seed that started its new industry. Now Zealand and Oregon, he reports, are quite similar in cli mate and topography. New Zea land, being an island, had no native wildlife. Flora was large ly limited to seaborne varieties. During the depression, how ever, It was decided that if "Oregon pine" could he grown In the Pacific Northwest It could flourish as well in New Zealand. l'lantlngs were made in the slumpage is such that we can't form of plantations. In factjpermit acres suitable for grow New Zealand boasts tho largest Ing ti'ocs to remain idle until man-made timber plantations inlVulher Nature gets around to the world The trees have been given in tensive cultivation, Barton re ports. Instead of being planted on poorer and shallower hillside soils, as is quite general in the Pacific Northwest, the trccsiun agricultural crop of trees, j meant when we voted that wav. were given rich volcanic soils.! That it is both possible and I have Rreat admiration for They were kept pruned and; economical to grow "O , e g o n election interpreters, mainlv be thinned. Competition a in o n g "Pine." which we know as "Dug : ,.,,,. hVl. nevcr been 'able irees lor piant loou was limit-! co. rinmaiiom were fertilued, from the air. Through this icnsivo culture trees have been: brouiiht to commercial .ip in!""'" n. uiuukih 10 commercial sue in ui,t , . , - ... . i i " ' J . '. i J 1 ih. .1... , . Dml. . W uiu . " " r" ,-v.i urn. iair .M-aoiHeii lor minus wiiii an antici-' that the concept of trees as a paled corporate existence of um me nmuTi 01 irrpj as a paien corporate existence of ' crop, rather than a resource toiirany years to give some ei lie mined, has been recoB-,haustivc study to New Zealand's; nued in the I'nited States. 'methods. pp!, . J". "SIL. k". ! ! m.. . ixdicy of "cut out ami cet out "! c nave stripped timber from Area IlflPI irn. iomc, lltn nun. ..... .VH n.,v.,.i .ui.;....ttia1 iiiiii usmi-j aim 1 mu llnfnl- ;Hagg. of Roseburg, Ore., will Finally Uiere has emerged a attend the Campus Crusade for plan of "sustained yield" andi Christ meet at Cceanlake Nov "allowable cut" as it pertains 8-10. to timber under federal controli Students from campuses in the I'nited States. In otheriaround thr Nnniiup.t mil .1. words, the federal timber theor- tainly not the people. The By Charles V. Stanton ctically is being cut at the rate at which It grows. This cycle of cutting varies from place to place In keeping villi the rate of growth. Timber grown In areas with ample rain fall, for example, will mature in around 75 years, while trees growing In drier and higher sec tions may need 125 to 150 years to reach a siic suitable for harvest. Natural reseeding of a cut- over area may vary from two or three to a dozen or more years. The Douglas Fir has a good seed crop only about once in six years. Sometimes the interval between good seed years is lono- or. Thus a lnggcd-oft tract may go a good many years before new trees start growing from natural reseeding. Today, however, the price of reseeding. Consequently we are doing a great deal of plonting. Hut this planting has been con fined principally to areas from which trees have been logged. we still haven I reached t h e place where we artunltv m;ilf . wnii,lu maslcr ,ht art mvself " " " ? ! v.M.v. ,n-, ...uiu uirn: imi I luiirn inrr Uvo a" individual to grow a ' "'" '" P,op l"' c,Hll1 only oncoihim to give me a few pointers. J""!eTrh' .!? rMii-mr rasp H nugnt hoi ' t.. . 77. 7. : 7 ! renamg Meet I wo Soutl.ern Oregon Collegel ftllilnnl, ll.l.l... .1 n. tend the event. I FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1963 Be Valuable Also coming to light through com ments was a strong feeling against the increase in salaries for the House and Senate members at their last session. , About 8 per cent of the ballots contained comments showing a dis like for the increase, despite the 1962 state-wide vote which allowed legislators to raise their own sala ries. Some voters also took exception to the attendance by some state leg islators at a conference of states in Hawaii earlier this year. "No more Hawaiian vacations," said one writ er. Obviously disgusted with the whole tax affair, one voter said merely, "Recall all state legislators, including governor, and elect new in telligent ones." Although it could hardly be called a trend, more than a score of peo ple called for either a state lottery or some other form of legalized gam bling as an answer to the state's money problems. Quite a few others called for an increase in the tax on alcohol. One man said "triple the price of all alcoholic beverages. Use the extra for tax offset." We think the poll had a value in explaining further the Oct. 15 rejec tion of the state budget and tax bill. It shows a strong desire to keep spending down, but it also indicates that a lot of those "no" votes Oct. 15 felt the cost of government should be spread to another kind of tax. Most of the indications most strongly requested by Douglas Coun ty legislators involved the feelings on a sales tax. Such a tax has been de feated six times in the past, but the trend seems to have changed. This is bound to have the effect of bring ing legislators to try again, but cer without another vote of The Almanac By United Press International Today is Friday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 1003 with S3 to follow. The moon is at last quarter. The evening stars arc Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1793, the famed Parisian an museum, llic Louvre was opened to tho public. In 1942, some 400,000 Allied troops invaded North Africa. In 1961, 77 persons were killed in a crash of an Imperial Air lines Constellation near the Richmond, Va., airport. A thought 'or the day Amer ican physician Sllnr Mitchell said: "Tho first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's check books." CARNIVAL POSTPONED The Melrose School Carnival scheduled for this Friday night has been canceled because of conflicting events. The carnival has been rescheduled to Friday, Nov. 22, and details will be an nounced at a later date. THE LIGHTER SIDE: km Ballot Pointers By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) Aft er each election there comes a period of what is known in w litlcal rircles as "analyzing the returns." The ballots we cast don't just speak for themselves, you know. In order for us to under stand why we voted the way we did. somebody has got to sit down and ficure nut what we kP trying just the same. "All right. In New York City, the wake of the elect.onsithe voters went on record 3 to :..:- -i. . "" , V 1 -i i - - friend of mine who xuvcialtzem ... . . Interpretations and asked s ... ' ' " gi' . ne saia.ung otl track betting. 1 said, "If r.uite simple really, nncci "Now you are trving to It s r.uite simple reallv, nncci "Now vol you get the hang of it. When jnalvic the issues are involved you anilyiei commented, .i. i-... ,.. iu. ; lilt i.iii'. vim . "I think so," I said. "Would ou mind giving me an exam Iple?" "Very well. Take the mavor- I believe I ha it all straight- ,l,ar niecting. Coop day will beiing tali on national defense, ally election in Philadelphia. iened out now. hrU1 N,V- " ' which ime; YEARS AGO A Democrat named James II.) According to mv analvsit of ro",t'n,s ,llrn " Pre-1 Nev. I, 1?$3 J. Tate defeated a Republican; the returns, the odds against 1;P ? "juartcri to be used Oregon's George Shaw passed named James T. McDermott.lNew York horse bring elected 5 ' ! "P,1' nd, ,0 . '"hnowns and set the Coulu It mean that major- il nthts platform are 3 to I. r,.-ih .h- viirt k. k..d; .-h:- ... .L-. -W ,ity of the voters felt that Tate By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Caracas' sprawling Mira- flores, Venezuela's white house, and in the guarded interior min istry, President Romulo Betan court and his aides are prepar ing the way for free national elections Dec. 1. The elections are to deter mine Belancourts successor and the new congress which will take office next March. But just outside Maracaibo, Venezuela's oil capital, police pick up a young member of the KALN. the so-called Armed Forces for National Liberation which are aligned with Fidel Castro and which are deter mined that the elections shall not take place. The young man carries a small but powerful explosive which may be attached to a vi tal pipeline. It is the same type of explosive the oil companies themselves use but in the hands of the young FALN member it is intended for sabotage. Police Seize Terrorist On a street in Caracas, in terior police pick up another suspected terrorist. In his possession are found detailed plans for a bank rob bery. The plan includes the amount ui mum:? v...t.. ..i-u ""B"!C,.nmcnt program which by uiu ii,......i. me bank on a given day. thcinext March wi nave distrib..;. names u i-H..c ue( an(I ,0 near,y loonoo famj. in m il uai.ii is jjaiu ami nuw uiu guards are armed. Beside each name is a notation: 'Friend." Analysis Given would lie a better mayor than Mcllermott?" ' "Good hpnvens!" mv friend exclaimed. "You do need help!!"1 ,nc t-;"Pla Hotel, the club's! She was the vivid youthful 'Wi.ii limn mnvl.o it m..ni regular meeting place for noon 'queen of saintly Louis VII of that Philadelphia voters arc prejudiced in Javor of candi-i" es with two middle initials." lull nit: ii.iiik III Ulltll.te the politicians,", my friend said. "What this election provides is an opportunity to analyze thejbetter cooperation with holiticnl imnart of tho rivil 'Chamber of Commerce rights issue." Tries Another "I think I'm catching on." 1 Butisaid. "Try me on another one." 1.. I ..r I I:.:-.. ..rf . I. - - " "" betting on horse races. Let - see how you analyic that." . . . ..... I anaiyie it to mean tlial;Cory. ? T! ; mrnem art- in lavur m lesaui issue.' my mentor; "Thin one should iw inu-rnrpipn a a nnniipai i ip.ni ini-mcivo am u-pii in ninri tory for Mayor Wagner." l I thanked my friend fur ex- .plaining the system to me and ' rt i off track. Free Vote Due In Venezuela "Brother of cop." "He's all right." Others are described by ob scenitief , The bank robbery doesn't come off and the plan to sabo tage the oil pipeline also fails. But others In the unceasing drive to throw Venezuela into chaos and eventually to trans form it into another Castro Cu ba have been more successful. The immediate goal of the FALN is to disrupt the eco nomy and to goad Venezuela's military into overthrowing the elected government and setting up a military dictatorship, against which the Communists could rally a revolution. Neither Plan Successful Neither nlan has been success- ful and the betting now is that neither will be. As Bctancourt prepares to become the first, president in Venezuelan history to turn hisi office over to a freely-elected1 successor, seven candidates! have declared themselves for! office. Front - runner is 57-ycar-old Raul Leoni, head of Betan court's own party, Accion Dem-1 ocratica. The parly claims more than 900,000 votes out of three and a half million. The i nnrtv fptq rrpHit fnr tho anv. 9n a '" II A Cjone dSt Taken from the tiles i Newt Review of the 40 YEARS ACO Nov. S, 1923 A lively meeting of the Ro- 'ary Club was held today noontaine llinrlionnc Prncirlnnt Cniilv on. j . "--- " "i hv ih pnmmii i. w .. "". "-.u" " . ters concerning the club s ac tivities would be discussed, paramount among which was the The club also decided to lakeied a divorce from Louis, and !an active part in the Armistice' promptly married Honry. bring- ""' celebration and members Ing to him as a dowry half ol ".1, n"rc" me parade as;outnern rrance. wen as enier a suiianie noai. i-l. v..-!!,;.!.. c..n.v.;KM fi..h "' ouusiimr iiuui (still active in 1963) wit hold he was also a nbilanrierer sL ........ ..i. .,np was "ls0 " piuianncrci. " v.r....,. ....I.- J . ,h yosburgh and Wiard C.ro - vB. aaa 25 YEARS AGO i u . Nov. I, mi Arrangements for the annual Nort. .western Turkev Show to hp hphl in flak-lanH rtpp tn laccordine to committee reports!" last night to the Oakland Development Cluh at its reg- ' i iiT UUJI' VlilV VUM V I'll If I CHIT Clt.?n in , sjjon )hf cllb wi5 ,d.'Eugcne Saturday. lies and built close to 5,000 schools. A leading opponent is Rafael Caldera, a 47-year-old lawyer and member of the Social Christian party which has worked in coalition with Bctan court and shares credit for na tional reforms. Also in the race is Jovito Villalba of the left - of - center Democratic Republican Union. Villalba won an election in 1952 but it was nullified by former dictator Marcos Perez - Ji menez. Others, including Vice Ad miral Wolfgang Larrazabal, who headed the military junta which took over after Perez Ji chance. And the Communists none at all. They have been suspended from all political ac tivity. ' In The Day's Hews- By FRANK ... ,. , ., ... , Aftermath of the Vietnamese, blood bath: Mme. igo Dinh Mm, the Dra gon Lady, and her estranged father meet in Los Angeles where ANYTHING can happen. They have a 40-minute visit. Dr. Tran Van Chuong, the 65 - year - old father, told the waiting re I porters : I "There was no need of recon- ciliation. As soon as 1 learned I near to my daughter." Blood is thicker than water. Misfortune is a great leveler. I What of this weird woman who has flashed across the news skies like a blood-red meteor? iWhat will become of her? How I will she wind up? One never can tell. History tells us that women can be strange characters. There was Eleanor of Aqui- i r . 1.1 a I.:. u.l. riauic, ni-uuiu m mum hi me K marriage socmen, 10 e 8,ns wc glamor- ous, youthful, brilliant Henry 11 of England arrived in Paris to negotiate a treaty with Louis. Eleanor fell for him. She fell hard. She demanded and obtain- how did it turn out Nnt too well ... .. lipnrv WBS a ETpai KinB. Hill lip fpll 11 IrtVP M'it h o ma H v L ..". " " i" "' ',",," ,T. "'" !hp : h . ..; ' , , . . V wonderful working, so that no man or woman might come to her." This house was named Labyrinthus, "like unto a knot a garden called a mare." It - dressed by Ward Cummings o( Roseburg who gave an interest Welfare Growth Poses , Vanger lO rreeuem , To The Editor: It is commonly assumed that those who are against welfare are tightwads and lack compas sion for one's fellow men. Vhile such may be true in certain cases, it does not necessarily follow. By looking at the pic ture broadly and actually, rath er than narrowly and ideally, it is hoped subsequently to point out that the reverse is true: namely, that compassion and all other human values have true sincerity and their greatest purity when applied by individ uals and when applied ny gov ernment are apt to be flat and impersonal without great value in human relationships. Let us delineate the difference between welfare and charity. If one sees a hungry person on the sidewalk and takes that per son in and feeds him the mat ter is voluntary and personal with a spiritual value and char ity is involved. However, if the bum has the philosophy of the United Nations he is confident that he has a "human right" to the meal and that which is im personal and spiriUess issues forth. If further, without appre ciation, he expects you to be back tomorrow and all subse quent days to take him to lunch we have identified the spirit or in fact, the lack of it of welfare. The absurdity of the human right dogma is that if one looks around himself he readily no tices with the exception of air. water, and sunshine that 99 per cent of what is present for con sumption and use was made lossible by other human ef forts. The faller and bucker in the woods with hard and honest toil risks life and limb each day constantly trying to steer clear of 'widow makers.' The mill worker pulls lumber off the green chain all day long. The executive worries about broken machinery, markets and orders. The businessman stews about inventory, overhead and sales promotion to effect a favorable balance. All people working to produce tilings of value and make the machinery of civili zation go find that the only real human right endowed them by their creator is the right to struggle for a living. Welfare has a leftist mechan ism whereas charity has a right ist one. Not strangely, the dif ference is between that of do goodness and goodness. Good ness is giving help where help is needed: and do goodness is giving help where help is not JENKINS was so intricate that . Henry him- T.'L"," thread of silk which he followed. But Eleanor was no ordinary woman. She found the "thredde of sylke" and followed it to the bower whereN as Sir Winston Churchill tells it in bis Birth of Britain, she presented the Fair Rosamond with a choice be tween the dagger and the poi soned cup. Rosamond chose the poisoned cup-ana mat was me eno 01 ler. Evil days came finally upon. custom of "Trick or Treat." Eleanor. ! This being my first year as She had a brood of wild chil-if I was anxious to dren, including the fantastic !;arn ,or not- Pe.Pe Richard the Lion Hearted an0!'' giving treats to youngsters. who was forced by the barons, BtUanecaiving. to sign the Magna Charta at Tnc excitement of the chil- Runnymcde. Idren and lc fun ,hey havc js Through it all. Eleanor stood; well worth the penny or two like a rock for the good of Eng- land. No task was too hard for her. She would rise in the mid dle of the night and ride alone . . inrougn any pauern nt danger to uphold the good of England. You never can tell about wom en, you see. Even the Dragon Lady might reform. She has children, you know, as did El eanor. In conclusion, one more word about Mmc. N'hu's father. In an interview in Fresno yes- terriav hp airl Ihp flipm iinir. Unltrt Pre" International, NEA Service. icroay, ne saia tne uicm gov-Au((i, BurM0 , ccui,, ,a 0re emment Collapsed because it' ion Newspaper Publishers Association. ..... ui:.... .on to sav: "When vnn are ii;n.. . ..." " , 'aeo irom me rest oi tne world, . ... """" ,u ""cs- "C wrniiN(w,MHr m,,.,,,, service Co.. Russ ers and flatterers who tell youlH'-oo. " ..... ....,- nly what they want you to know1.,0' M'i,-,"0"'" C""",:.J. m.i' nd yu are not able to see the; truth Call 673-6301 Art-Craft Press PHOTO-OFFSET PRINTING Ruled Forms Stot.on.erv Envelopes Cords Baokltrs Hubert ond Ada Heafh 4626 N. Stephens Roseburg, Ore. "eeoed- Do sjwdness promotes (laziness and laziness promotes idleness. When one is idle he has no need for the spiritual values of intellect, courage, self respect and respect for others and becomes very close to noth ing. Both economically and spiritually all leftist programs ballyhooed as "progress" trav el downhill toward nothing for individuals. The government sensing new muscular strength from increased taxes greedily gobbles up remaining incentive energies and grows bigger, but it too must eventually collapse or assume totalitarian control, because it reduces the people who support it to nothing. In herent with the increase in the bigness of government is a cor responding loss of freedom. In this world of "what is, is what is" we readily sense wel fare begets welfare. Statistics and logic point up the facts that not only do bigger and more luxurious programs attract more followers, but the moral degeneration brought on by the "human right" preaching pre pares new converts. The honest toilers who pay taxes to supj port the growing programs find themselves bereft of funds for their own old age, and are forced with the indignity of a sense of lost personal respon sibility to seek welfare them selves in the closing years of their lives. Another facet shows the polar difference of welfare and char ity. While charity begins at home and is measurable and rewarding to the giver as well as the receiver, welfare is world wide; through the antics of our left wing politicians we reap the harvest of emptiness, im personalness, and lack of appre ciation sown by the seeds of do goodness in the nebulosity of our far flung foreign aid pro grams. If the worst comes to worst and the American public must be pauperized by govern ment give aways would not it be better to return this mon ey to our own oldsters who were taxed for it in their young er productive years. One may not deny certain statements of the leftists. Both the increased population and the changing complexities of in dustry cause problems in em ployment. Some individuals have an absolute need for some type of assistance. Others getting it could do better if they would try. The point is that welfare is neither glorious, nor great, nor progress. Because of the factors of political expediency and patronage, the impersonal ncss of government, and in creased taxes, the electorate must if it is to preserve any degree of freedom insist on the guide lines of absolute neces sity, prudence, and vigilance to keep things within bounds. The citizen taxpayer is right when he complains about too much welfare and excesses of govern- moni. How else may he gain Pct and efficiency from those he has chosen to repre- sent him in government. Roy E. Hanford 25G4 W. Harvard Roseburg, Oregon Area Woman Enjoys Halloween Tradition To The Editor: As Halloween was nearing I rcad mjiy artielcs and wrUl(,n 1 nnitltntie pnnf..lirtf th aan.ntt I spent on treats. Mrs. Lindley Stanton Rt. 1. Box 319-B MyrJe Creek SS S.E. wain ST. Published Dally Evceot Sunday by NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. Roseburg, Oregon Telephone 472-3321 Entered as second class rrstrar Mav 7, I'M, at trie poll office af RostDuro, egon. under act of March 3, 1873. 1. V. 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