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"I'M NOT INTERESTED!" or i a aue a Page 4 The Newt-Review WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963 Political Maliciousness Seen The announced action of the U.S. Department of Justice in bringing suit against the Hanna Nickel Smelt ing Co. of Riddle and the parent Hanna Mining Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, not only seems extremely pic ayunish but totally unjust and even politically malicious. The suit has been brought because of a difference of opinion concern ing bookkeeping methods and cost accounting. The question to be de termined is one of technicality. But the Hanna Mining Co. has been un der harassment from the Democratic administration since its former pres ident, George Humphrey, became Secretary of the Treasury under the Republican administration of Presi dent Eisenhower. To the opinion that action against the Hanna Co. is politically malicious could be added the fact that it most probably is downright dangerous to this country's future. Are large concerns with technical know-how apt to perform for the gov ernment's welfare when they are to become subject to persecution from political-minded demagogues? Following the last World War the United States government was hard pressed for nickel. Nickel is a most highly strategic mineral. The larg est known domestic deposit of nickel is to be found at Nickel Mountain near Riddle in Southern Douglas County. The federal government appealed to several of the larger mining com panies of the United States to ex tract the nickel from this deposit to provide the government with a need ed supply for its proposed stockpile. The property underwent study and investigation, including ground tests, from several of the major concerns. The deposit is of low grade. Nickel Mountain, in prehistoric days, was one of the extremely high mountains arising along the then ex isting coastline, geologists report. Volcanic action which followed caus ed the ocean to recede. At the same time Nickel Mountain was subject to erosion over an extremely long pe riod. The nickel ore it contained was leached by the rains of millions of years. It deposited in oxidized form as the great peak gradually eroded to about a tenth of its ori ginal height. The nickel oxide, intermingled with iron, bus resulted in a ferro-nickel which, properly smelted, is approxi mately the formula used in making stainless steel. The Hanna Co. previously had no experience in mining nickel. It is, however, one of the world's largest producers of coal and iron. Further more, it has in its personnel some of the best educated and experienced mining engineers to be found any where. The Hanna Co. agreed to under take a project rejected by other con cerns which had no satisfactory plan for producing nickel from the low-grade ore. The federal government offered to loan money needed to develop the project and to build the smelter. The cost was to be amortized through the delivery of nickel to the federal gov ernment. After the government had recovered the money advanced for the smelter, the Hanna Co. was to have the right to buy the plant. The Hanna Co. didn't borrow near ly as much money as the govern ment was willing to loan. If one were to take into consideration the inter est saving between the amount of fed eral money actually used and the amount pledged to the project, it would be far more than the petty sum over which the Hanna Co. is being dragged into court. There was no argument or con cern about the project until Humph rey, one of the country's leading in dustrialists, a man who knows some thing about finance, resigned his highly paid office and accepted Ei senhower's invitation to use his tal ents on behalf of the government. Eisenhower was too popular with the people to be attacked personally. So, his political opponents began sniping at his cabinet. One by one they were cut down by opposition hiitchetmen McKay, Benson and others. Humphrey didn't take the personal abuse sitting down. He lashed back. Most big concerns and federal gov ernment fiscal experts disagree from time to time over accounting meth ods. The Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Treasury is constantly arguing with some corporation con cerning taxes, bookkeeping, account ing methods, etc. Frequently the courts must settle the dispute. But Hanna's case has been drag-' ged before the Congress with the im plication that there has been a great scandal. Now, while the court case is a simple dispute concerning technical methods, political propa gandists apparently are seeking to advance the idea of impropriety, seemingly because those concerned were prominent Republicans. The Hanna Co. found a French process by which nickel could be re covered from low-grade ore. Modifi cations in the process made the Rid dle smelter efficient. Hanna fulfilled its contract with the government a year ahead of time. It bought the property as the agreement specified. But it made the great mistake of op erating at a profit. A profit seems to be a sin in the eyes of the administration. THE LIGHTER SIDE: m Virus Tennis Seasons Here By DICK WEST I WASHINGTON (UPI) - In :i)e J on hadn't noticed, the loiison of winter sports is al most upon us once again. Soon, with a gay halloo, a large segment of the population will be participating in skiing, bobsledding, ice skating, curl ing, afternoon naps and that most popular of all winter games, virus tennis. Evidence extracted from hier oglyphics and from fossils of the Pliocene period indicates that man has been playing some form of virus tennis since be fore the dawn of history mtm The Editor's Corner By Charles V. Stanton Soon U. S. Forest User Will Pay Admission Fee In many parts of Europe hunting and fishing are for the rich only. Poaching is a most serious crime. In earlier years property owners set packs of dogs upon poachers to tear them to bits. One of the factors causing a breakdown in the feudal system in some areas resulted from restrictions upon public recrea tion and land use. In the United States the love for freedom resulted in a philosophy different from that of Europe. Instead of fish and game being considered a part and parcel of the land, the wildlife belonged to all the people. A person may close his land to access, but he doesn't own the fish and game. Our vast public domain heretofore has been kept free to entry by recreationists. But it would seem that the days of free entry are numbered. Soon, it may be expected, it will cost us money to cross the bound aries of our national forests. A project now is before the Dictatoria Noted In By ROBERT C. RUARK I lation, which allows arrest with It's now just a month before out warrant, jail without trial, Kenya comes fully free of colon-the KADU (opposition) Secre ial status, if the Dec. 12 date tary General, Martin Shikuku, for uhuru is adhered to and if the country isn't split in two! by the warring factors of the two principal political parties, Jomo Kcnyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. But well before formal inde pendence, wily old Kenyatta has forced the British to allow! a rewrite of the constitution on which independence was pre dicated on separate regional rep resentation, in order to give the minority tribes representa tion to counterbalance the over whelming strength of the Kiku yu and Luo tribes, which com prise Kenyatta's KANU. Return ing home from the conferences in London, Ronald Ngalu, aft- said with bitter wisdom: "My party is disturbed to note that the government has found it fit to introduce such legislation which is calculated to silence the opposition forev er." This is under par for the Af rican cjurse a double-eagle, so to speak. Usually the power party in the emerged states sends some relative to the free dom ceremonies before theyjRoyce at the recent auto show start gagging the opposition pri-!in London. That is real prog- or to clapping them in jail, asircss for an old convict who, has been so strikingly demon strated in Ghana and Nigeria. In Kenya the ruling powers go Ways Kenya one man band in Algeria whose iirst act is to embark an aggressive expeditionary force against Portuguese Ango la while simultaneously taking on a war over some camel corral with Morocco. And on no dough of his country's own. Meanwhile, back in Nairobi, it is nice to know that the bankrupt new government, which had to beg from Britain to pay the half-price to British settlers for their seized lands, can afford to allow Jomo Ken yatta to buy a S20.000 Rolls- into freedom loaded with the legal means to provide dictator-; ship on the table d'hote menu Congress to impose a charge for the recreational use of our public domain. Persons who .would use the facilities of a na tional forest frequently could buy a permit, a sticker to ap pear on an automobile, which would be good for the season. An annual fee of $7 is under discussion. Or, for those who would enter the public domain infrequently, there would be a daily charge possibly $1. Already this proposed viola tion of the concept of free entry to public land and to hunting and angling for game and fish is producing much co.'.iplaint. On the other hand, some 80 per cent of the recreational po tential in Oregon, as an exam ple, is to be found on the 50- plus per cent of land acreage under federal control. Oregon is to be called upon to furnish rec reational facilities to millions of Californians who already arc looking to the Pacific North west for vacation entertainment We will need every camp, pic nic spot, fishing area, hunting lands, etc., we possibly can de velop. How can the federal govern ment develop the recreational potential of the public domain if it does not charge for the use of its land area? Charge Urged Several years ago a commit tee from Congress visited the tountry's national forests and urged a federal charge for en try into the public domain. The recommendation nf t 1,,-nntnninrf in cft lin .1 nn prate Kenva (a la Katanga 'rather than waiting for the a MURROW IS BACK in the Congo) said that the re-j'a carte. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ed- pional factor was "still alive Sadness Involved iward R. Murrow, director of the when released a couple years back, was worried about his 15 goats, and was feverishly count- committee's ing his handful of coffee bushes, didn't get far. The Kennedy ad (Copyri., i?63 by united Fea. Synd.. inc.) ministration proposed a fed- Icral license on boats, many of j which use impoundments creat ed oy icacrai nams. mai pro- 9n 2), Cjone (f3ij. Taken from the files of the! News Review ! 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1923 ordinarily hold our first virus tennis tournament until after Thanksgiving. This year, how ever, we opened the season ear ly to accommodate my lamer. Tll(, motHr mis is Krmvin(! in who recently came to visit us.llsp The Nows-Kcview reported My father lives in a chmatcltoday. Already 40.000 motor that is still rather balmy at this j vehicles are in service in the time of year. He mistook thcjii.s. carrying passengers over brisk autumn weather hero asjschedtiled territory (exclusive ol a sign of winter and began tnxienhs). clamoring for a game. I Revision of federal taxes, csti- but like a man, with two broken legs." Legislation Remarkable This is interesting enough, but the pattern of African na tionalism in its purest form was set on Oct, 12, when Kenyat ta's government pushed through a remarkable piece of legisla tion. It is called "a regulation for the preservation of public security." Under the new regulation, people who make statements "likely to cause alarm or ap prehension" are liable to be jailed up to a year or fined up to $500. The regulation states that it is "an "offense to dis- iseminale by word of mouth or in writing, or by any other i menus, any statement, infornia Ition, report or opinion calculat ed or likely to cause alarm or apprehension to the public, or to any section of the public, or to the prejudice of public or der. It would be sort of funny if it weren't so very sad. Old Ken yatta returned home on the 11th anniversary of his imprison ment as the head Mail Mail. and was greeted by 150,000 il've seen the picture) cheering subjects. Mgala, who speaks for the splinter tribes, came home in a vacuum. The only noise that heralded his arrival was wheep-wheep-wheep of spears being sharpened up the hill. where the Kalenjin tribes live, and the more than muttered threats of secession even be fore independence arrives. What is more ironical for the white segment of Kenya which elected to remain is that many who were recently pushed off (and paid half-value for) their properties in a million-acre ex propriation, moved up to the West, in the Kalenjin country, hnnina fur nnipt If secession comes, the move is tanta- SM0WS- U.S. Information Agency; (USIA) rcturntd to work Tues day for the first time since a cancer operation on Oct. 5. Aides said that Murrow, whose left lung was removed, would work part time for the next week or so and gradually increase his schedule. posal got exactly nowhere Now there is a plan to raise some S150 million for the Con-! scrvation Fund, chiefly through admission and use fees. Coupled with the outcry from huntjrs and anglers, there has been much objection from ship pers, particularly barge opera tors using inland waterways. Oregon's Congressman Bob Duncan quieted some of,, the remonstrance with a proposed amendment that would permit admission charges only where the federal government had ac tually provided recreational fa cility or services. He also would prohibit charges for commer-" cial use of reservoirs, canals or waterways. Government Wakens It would appear that the fed eral government, which has been extremely backward in de veloping the recreational poten tial on the public domain, at last is awakening to the public need. But, in attempting to make charges for use of recre ational facilities on public lands it is running into the centuries old conflict in the matter of rec reational privilege. The question still remains, however. How can the federal government spend the millions of dollars needed to provide recreational facility unless it has income for that purpose? For myself, I would not mind paying a reasonable fee. Huw ever, I would insist on one pro vision. Every dollar raised through admission charges should be returned in the form of facility improvement. Through sales of timber, land use and other sources the fed eral government today takes into its treasury around $5 for every SI it pays back into management and improvement of its national forests. When we have a crying need for more ac cess roads, piahtings, thinning, watershed protection, wildlife management and many other activities, I don't blame our tim ber operators for being unhappy with so much of their money go ing into the general fundnd so little back into forest man agement. I will have a most serious objection if the federal govern ment tries to.use this same pat tern with ices paid for ent;-y into the public domain. Opinions From Readers Example Of Parents Needed By Children To The Editor: Once again 1 appeal through your columns for assistance in solving an old problem concern ing children and parents. 1 re fer, of course, mainly to the Saturday published daily with the Satur day matinee ending time also shuwn. This ending time is also1 prominently displayed in the box office window and there is al ways the telephone in case one torgets to look. Incidentally, the same, prob lems are with us at night, which afternoon matineeionl' accentuates the matter. tin.-. - nttln nU. comes. c m.e . .un a- certainly no narcnt w o u 1 dlnarker and Children mount to moving from Leopold- ciiaimy no parent v, oino . . . .. . , ,!. The nublic is not defined, hutivillc to Katanga in search of , Knowingly subject his child to . -. ,nn nrritipm vii n is hip nar. "h,i,j m"" imvmmi.j - ents themselves who are teach- er 1c stressed too lightly. Why the public in this case is the peace mated to reduce the total as sossnient by $1123 million next; KANU year is proposed in a program approved by Secretary Andrew Mellon fur submission to Con gress. Mellon estimated nnlin lie being senior among us and a guest at Hint, it seemed only right (hat wo permit him to throw out the first virus. Pairings for the first round pitted my father against my 13- Aml believe me it requires year-old daughter, who is the ary expenses of government real dedication to begin play-tP-secded player in my family. Iwould be reduced during the ing before dawn jU was an interesting match. ) current fiscal year to a total ol In view of these findings, l! "eing an old-timer, my fathorij billion. j cannot properly claim to havoiloes not play the so-called "big; is YEARS AGO invented vims tennis. 1 believe'ganie" favored by the younger! Nov. 13, 1938 j the record will show, however. That is, he docs not try lol A meeting to talk over the people ruled by Kenyatta and Tom Mboya, or, more specuic ally, the political party ol Wisdom Cited Keeping Up Difficult 1 try to keep up with African democratic thought processes, and find it difficult as diffi inc the children to iavwalk. to no' Sive the kids a break? And runacrossthestrpetinthemid.il miglit add, that includes let- die of the block. It's bad enough! ,lhe youngsters out of cars Commenting nn the new regu-'Ben Bella's emergence as cult as understanding Ahmedjwhcn vision is unimpaired, but:0" thc Pwmcilt side, not the Big Absentee Vote Task Taken On By Department :nl ii rnlfl lint rinv u-hnn thiV'raltlC Side -I street is slinneiv. 'windshields! Eino Hemmila lare fogged up. and clothes are; I usually dark, a child (adult, too) Indian Theatre P.O. Box 1066 : darting across thc street can i very easily become an acci , dent victim. At the close of each Saturday matinee, we always; WAKiuw.Tnv nipn Thniwi. K,.i.ort s AirVm.- is,,oss ,l,c importance of goingl Defense Department is organiz-IThe 1955 Federal Voting Act! " w corner lor a pioper cioss- To Thc Editor: Roseburg, Oregon. Writer Thinks Spirit Of Yule Threatened blow his opponent off the couit.ipractical needs of the people in emnaian . . ,,ji-n.i nrfmw Qo,P.iing. If parents would also follow i would like to exnre mv lie is, however, a dogged re-if lamas Valley pursuant to;ni(! absentee vote for the 1964 1 tary as "voting coordinator"!"" rule- bo, in bringing the feelings concerning Christmas iMBivi onvi inn lumu u,. iin. Having an cieciric one nerc wiiiiprpsidontial election. for the armed services as wellrll"u 10 Ine snmv 'e" an spirit at this time thai I was the first to formu late written rules of proci'diire. tactics and ethics. It might fairly be said thativiruses that would pass right byjhe held at the school housej Officials hope that it will be as for overseas representatives:'1 cnd- il v"rv easily could bc- No. it's not too earlv to do I am to virus tennis what Ab- the average player. Thursday evening, Nov. 17. Atipossihle to get ballots from at;of other agencies. come a natural habit. ; tliis. because, after all, Christ-! ner Douhleday was to baseball. )nco my daughter adjusted, this meeting practical needs for least half of the 35 million' The law applies to the 27 Also, why is it that parents so mas displays are up in many; Hut 1 doubt anyone will say it. (to his style of play she was lighting and wiring problems Americans eligible to cast ab-lnillion members of thc armed often demand their youngsters of the stores already. ' i In my household, we do notiaiiic to maicn mm snoi 101 or valley residents will lie dis-isentoe votes. Little more thaniforces staUoned in the United to he at a certain place at a I can recall when Christmas! shot, which includes one peni'jrussrd from a standpoint ol one-third of this group hasiStates or abroad, but only to certain time (for instance, di-iloys. decorations and displays, oillin and two streptomycin. Iwhat thev can economically nf-;voted in past presidential elec- civilians if they are assigned rectlv in front of the theater' wore out thc first of Decem-i ing, since Halloween seems id be the starting date. Of course, I know the stores have only the original meaning of Christmas in mind the memory of our Savior's birth. Surely they're not trying to change the Christmas meaning from our religious observances to seeing how many presents one receives, how nice or how big or expensive, or if they are in the latest fashion style. I'm just sure they would not try to start our religious ob servances so far in advance that the real meaning is lost along the way after two months of shopping for Christinas gifts. No, surely no one, even for money, would want to change the religious meaning of one of our most important historical events the birth of Christ our Christmas. Let's not let thc coming gen erations forget what Dec. 25 really is! Mrs. Barbara Horn Kellogg Star Rt. Oakland, Ore. My daughter then served to: tnrd in order lo lie able to use! lions. overseas. .when the show is over) and vet ber. Then it was just after: jmy wife, who lobbed a virus in electricity. i Approximately 40 per cent of! During the first meeting fail to meet them there at thelThanKSf!ivinP- But Ibis year jmy direction even though 1 had 10 YEARS AGO 'be eligible members of fhejWedncsday at the Pentagon to'appointod hour? l'nfortunately!,llprc "nisi be deeper feelings: (nut planned lo enter the tourna j Nov. 13, 1?53 :armed services cast absentecbegin thc drive, it was agreed this is not unusual- many chil-'for ,hp Christmas spirit of giv- menl. , The Roseburg Church of the hallots in I960. Thc prnpositionlthat the most important elr-,,drcn wait anywhere from is' ' tut no. ! SF Mlr. St PiiMlfhl Cm. Iv E(il Si'Mny bv NEVJ REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. t"-jji Knortsman to the end. 1 came Ynnrn ha mti-rhnvi,,! Iwn ih. oo.t mu i Ri.,a.,oiit of retirement ami enuaued ,i ,inim. lt, ,,r nmiwrtv in ihe smaller among civilians over- potential absentee voter Drew, mM, ,o ol Muh i, itn': . ,,i.i,i ,ih uiih nw'v, kii. ... v n.,... ,il ,.,.scas. iccived a "federal . is presumed to have been! ment was to insure that every minutes lo an hour before anv-iTT POLICY J. V. Brtnnr "" one rrivn li nnt nnW ,,'n.i AMMAN", Jordan (UPI) King Voting post l... .... Saud. marking his 10th annivor- younger daughter, who Is Junior additional facilities ami a L?5rdr ?J? ' prevWfd Under "" from a selfish point of viun- " T"i Tiw NvRvttw Ii mmtM of if j JnilM) Preit lnlrntianjti. hr-A (trvlrt i' Awjti Blt-u ot ctrcutaiw ih- or-pirkrrf up a lot of poiiUors at now church is comnlctrd wn Meninai DnhlUkin A . i 1 Marine Corps in 1W0 cot 80 per r: .1 i luouav ins cuuiurv iavnrs The voter sends the free air "' "" ny of non-intervention in NrwtpAOW Advtrttsing Wfvttt Cc bui Ming, im rranciKd. tjltt. SUBSCRIPTION DATES rrrler and ftowhuro p O. 6oti Rum! Before you could say "pnou- an educational unit nionia, we were all in mid-; nunn tt.iViM All nvnnnt nix V . D 1 If i F kl r P w church is completed, th, , mombor, , tothp votlnR oUlcM would like to have enough time SiiKx?ATZl esenl building will be used as ahsonl. .,. f hl, ,.lrtl,n, ri for dinner before roturmng for; o. "'J "JL necessary regtstra- "'l' M"'w , .., r Arabia is opposed to bloodshed Holing materials. resiH.nsibibty ends when the in thc dl tc over Xemell ,hc KnnHi As a lurtner inoiicement lo turn, sent aiiM-uirv muni;, main smtr.uon ann naiioiins materia s. .-i-..--,.m,. u,u lh j:,.,... barriers, such as requiring al The sot-out-the-vote drive will how is oyeT am' ,n theatre is .mv nation nn ih i. nf" ih . 1 J .11 itlnnNWl Kilt H.-vaa hh t , ... . mu'iiipmnra oy a giooai "" "" n".- Araoian land mass. Un caiil Ik. nira nf hi. Artl-A omn. 11 ., . monmt, no , i w-.;yearoii son. WASHINGTON (VPD-Wom-iporsonal appearance for regis-be By M.it-m DikhiUi Cotmtv! t mMh'. ' " . ' ' . " I'emocrais nave agrreu lu irauon. nave oeen nroppea inipunticily etlort through public-! ""ir cnunrcn lo meir own re-' i mm, hi iiwnrn, noo,,'"- raise siim.oou lo nctp loot ine me pasi inree or lour years, tions. radio and te lev sion In sources on a downtown street? -ih. n.ir.ii . mi s "virus boy i !S5S",uSrl,;!chs "" ' ,,,e vi,USC! """Melevision campaign bills lor) The new drive will be umieripresent campaign issues muniM. tit.soi i yr 3i.oo. jinc other players miss. iPresident Kennedy, 'he leadership of Defense Sec-lpartiallv. im hliowtimes, through thc cour-in Saudi Arabia in the 20th ;tesv of The News-Review areicenturv." i IK) At Satan, t MTmiTit worW'i . kiratrt Chirepmtit Han fyjjm am aatrnd tha V ' dwr m baa h far thowiana'i af twfftrtrt h a hvf aaaa ld ta baliava fhara na rtHaf. 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