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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963
Livestock Association Back At Birthplace
Roseburg today is hosting its sec
ond convention of the Western Ore
gon Livestock Association, and it has
a lot of reasons for being proud of
its hosting role.
The 1,000-member association is
now at the peak of its strength and
effectiveness. It reached this level of
prestige after having been born in
Douglas County 26 years ago.
The organization was formed by
representatives of Coos, Curry, Lin
coln and Douglas counties in Rose
burg, shortly after Douglas County
had formed its own organization a
week before on Dec. 30, 1936.
Ii. F. Nichols of Riddle was a
vice president of the bigger organi
zation and charter president of the
county association. It is interesting
to note that this year's convention
chairman and county association
president is Dick Nichols of Rose
burg, nephew of the first county
president.
Beside twins the point of origina
tion of the big Western Oregon as
sociation, the county is proud of its
role as the hijrstiftst county organiza
tion in the WOLA. About a third of
the members in the state organiza
tion come from the county.
Despite this dominance of num
bers, the county this year boasts the
first president of the WOLA it has
ever sponsored. He is Lynn Beckley
of Glide.
It may not have dominated the
presidencies in the past 26 years, but
the county organization has been one
of the strongest in working for the
improvement of the plight of live
stock association membership.
It has been the strongest support
er of such things as wool pools, ram
and ewe sales, lamb shows and oth
er activities to promote the sheep
and wool industry. It has also work
ed effectively with the WOLA in
guiding legislation beneficial to
sheep growers through the legisla
ture. With its strength, membership in
the county organization ha3 grown to
: the point that it is the biggest single
livestock organization in the state.
And sheep raising ranks as a
healthy economic factor in the coun
ty's economy. As a matter of fact,
its 100,000-plus sheep is the highest
of any county in the state.
With Douglas County ranking as
the sheep and wool growing center
of the state, Roseburg was a good
choice for this year's convention.
The annual meeting of the WOLA is
a welcome addition to the county's
convention roster.
1 Editors lorner
I JJjQjj By Charles V. Stanton
Trio Of County Teams Moves Up
Douglas County still boasts the
highest number of football cham
pionship contenders of any county in
the state. Carrying the county's ban
ners into the semifinal rounds are
Yoncalla in the B division, Camas
Valley in the eight-man division and
Roseburg in the A-l division.
County teams have captured sev
en previous state football titles. What
a climax it would be to have a tri
umvirate of grid champions all in
the same year.
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
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The Almanac
Labor, Marriage
Contracts Same
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) Tho
similarity between a lubor con
tract and a marriage contract
is obvious to anyone who knows
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uiiyuiuiK tit iii-ujuiiixuiiiwui.
bargaining.
Up until now, however, I wns
not aware thut tho resemblance
hud any official standing with
the Nationul Labor Relations
Hoard. ,'
My eyes were opened on this
point by a decision rcccnily
handed down by an NLRB trial
examiner in an unfair labor
practice- case in Tennessee.
The examiner, Gcorgo L.
Powell, ruled that a dairy prod
ucts firm acted wrongly In
turning over to an Independent
contractor work that hud pre
viously l)cn performed by its
own employes.
Powell held that the company
should huve notified the union
before taking this step, which
resulted in tho dismissal of
some of the workers.
In support of his decision he
noted that tho union-management
relationship "in certain
respects is like a marriage."
"... wc can well Imagino the
almost universal cry In every
homo in the land should the
husband, without first talking it
over with his wife, rent out tho
spare room in tho homo to a
lovely young roomer, bo she
bloiulo, brunotto or redhead,"
lie wroto.
Yes, Indeedy. I ' can well
Imagine that. In fact, I can
visualizo tho negotiations step
by step.
First there would be what is
known in labor-management-marriagc
circles as a "lock
nut." The wife would luck her
husband out of the bedroom
while she had a universal cry.
These pressure tactics would
force tho husband to the bar
gaining table. He would rather
go to the dinner table but there
wouldn't be uny food on It be
cause she was in the bedroom
crying when she should have
been in the kitchen cooking
supper.
Then the negotiations would
reach a stalemate, although the
Truth Serum Test Set
For Slaying Suspect
PORTLAND (UPI) Accused
husband would have settled for
a slice of stalo bread.
As a result of the impasse,
to un impartial mediator her
mother. . j
By thut time the IovcIm young
tonant would have left town
without paying her rent. So the
case would bo settled by the
mother moving into the spare
room.
3n 2)ati
Gone dSij.
Taken from the files of the
Newt Review
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1923
Tho members of Umpqua
Post of the American Legion
paid a rousing tribute to their
leader, Karlc B. Stewart, last
night when ho was nominated
to again fill the position as
commander of tho post. The
nominations were closed and
the boys sent up a rafter-shaking
cheer over tho selection.
This is tho first time In the
history of tho post that a com
mander has been ro-clcctcd. As
an organizer and worker, Com
mander Stewart proved his abil
ity and Umpqua Post has grown
from fifth in slzo to the sec
ond in tho state.
Editor's note: Dr. Earle B.
Stewart was honored also in la
ter years when "Stewart Park"
was named after him.
25 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1938
The Oregon Airline Service,
which for several weeks has
been operating from Coos Hay
and Klamath Fulls Into Port
land, will include Koschurg in
Its regular dally passenger serv
ice starling tomorrow, accord
ing to an announcement today
by L. W. Brooks of Marshfirld,
president. The plane used for
the flight is a Ryan high wing
monoplane, seating fivo passengers.
Today is Thursday. Nov. 21.
tho 325th day of 1963 with 40
to follow.
The moon is approaching its
first quarter.
The evening stars arc Jupiter
Saturn and Venus.
On this day in history:
In 1877, Thomas Edison an
nounced the invention of what
was called "tho talking machine."
In 1033, William Bullitt start
ed his job as the first Ameri
can ambassador to the Soviet
Union. - ,
In 1938, tho Germans forcibly
look over the western border
areas of Czechoslovakia. All of
the inhabitants in the area be
came German citizens.
In 1960, the first direct clash
between the Congolese Army
ind the United Nation's forces
in the Congo occurred at Leo-poldvillc.
A thought for (he day Amer
ican poet Wait Whitman, said:
"Once fully enslaved, no nation,
no Btatc, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty
Danger Of Secret Meetings Bared
At Special Legislative Session
CAPITOL MEMO
By ZAN STARK
SALEM (UPI) The futility
and danger of attempting to
hold secret meetings, or barring
newsmen from policy sessions
of state boards, was graphically
illustrated during the first week
of the special session.
Last Thursday seven legisla
tors had breakfast with six!
members of the Board of High
er Education at the Marion
Hotel. They held a private dis
cussion of Uic conflict between
the legislature and higher edu
cation.
Now You Know
Tho nation's highest concen
tration of college graduates is
in Washington, D.C., whero
moro than 14 per cent had at
least four years of college, ac
cording to a recent survey by
tho Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co.
Everyone involved denied it
was a "secret meeting."
But the fact remains every
one involved seemed might em
barrassed when United Press
International discovered what
was going on.
Was it pure coincidence that
the Board of Higher Education
held a special "public" meeting
just four hours after the secret
session broke up?
up many very interesting bits
of information.
For example, we learn that
aerial photography recently
! proved a most valuable activi
ty for the Oregon Slate Depart
ment of Forestry.
Managing the Elliott State
Forest in Western Douglas and
Northern Coos counties, the de
partment in ten days made pho
tographs covering some 21,000
acres to determine the amount
of damage caused by the 1902
Columbus Day windstorm.
; Through low level photogra
phy it was possible to obtain
26 photographs at a cost of 1.?
1 cents per acre, or a total of
'around $283.
j Estimate Rises
j Through data gained by this
iaerial reconnaisance, the de
partment increased its estimate
the board does is public busi-,of damage from 53 to 75 million
ness .board feet and has developed
.... . Ian elaborate road program to
When legislators and mem-i,., salvage o tho timber.
bera of higher education's boardxhe information gained through
hold meetings, the public has a this modern method will per
mit faster removal ol wind-
'Exchange' Papers Of fer
Many Interesting Things
One of the pleasures found in the editorial depart
ment of a newspaper is the opportunity to read the
exchanges. "Exchanges" come through "trades" with,-,
other newspapers.
. Reading exchanges, particularly editorial pages,;
gives us an opportunity to learn what other editors
and writers think. Newspapers also are studied for
techniques. , ."
News columns often reveal information t h a t
doesn't make the press wires. Therefore such news';,
doesn't get around to all parts of the state, as is the.;
case with the more important items. "Big news" ia
reported by correspondents to the press services and
this is distributed to all dailies. . -,
Through exchanges we picki
be two and one half times ai '
safe as the older highways. -
Speed Doesn't Kill
That estimate bears out tho
many times that speed in itself
isn't the killer many people be
lieve it to be. The real trou
ble is that we have too much
traffic for our road system. Ac
cidents go down as we provide
better roads, while, at the same
time, we may safely speed up
traffic movement.
right to know what is going on.
When they delibeiately hold
secret meetings, the public has
a right to be disturbed.
When the Boardman deal,
which already has cost nearly a
thrown trees and will repay its
cost hundreds of times.
W'e learned, too, that the pro
posed network of interstate
highways, expected to be com-
inlntn K.r 1 070 nncsihlv will
,.:, .1.. I ...u-. j.ll ui-!F"" "'" ..f"" " '
wuuu we puuuu kiiuws wnaij imuiuu uuuaia, geis uuu uuuuiejsave some 8 000 lives per year.
went on at me puuuc mcei- uie puuuc nas a ngui iu Know
about it.
ing, there still is no assurance
that agreements were not work
ed out at the secret conclave.
Then, the following day, mem
bers of the governor s staff, leg
islative leaders, and attorneys
for Boeing held a meeting.
Newsmen knew they were meet
ing, but they were, denied ad
mJsidont'V J,-
, Before the meeting broke up,
newsmen knew another crisis
had developed over the Board-
man Space Age Industrial Park, edition.
Reading Ability
Value Is Cited
PORTLAND (UPI) Thomas
D. Bailey, Florida state superj
imcnacnt 01 scnoois, saw in a
talk here that the best possible
"vocational education ' for to
day's youngsters wus the abili
ty to read.
Hi. was nllinrlini the annual ! and that the governor was Sllb- p;re officials Sflifl nnlv a few
mming a spec-m incasaso m ""--j employes were in the building
legislature. ,at the time the h aze started
Las Vegas Paper
Gutted By Blaze
LAS VEGAS. (UPI) The Las
; Vegas Sun -building was gutted
ny tire, early Wednesday as
the newspape? was completin
the run of. its final morning
meeting of the Council of Chief
State School Officers.
"We can talk ' all we want
about vocational schools and
technical institutes but if wc
don't do a better job of teach
ing our children how to read,
some of them are never going
to bo able to get a job or hold
one," Bailey said.
Bailey suid that a program to
teach reading through higli
school had been started In Flo
rida's education system.
"This is tho major reason we
(tho nation) have so many drop
outs everything in school de
pends on the ability to read,"
Bailey said.
There appears no logical rea
son for newsmen to have been
barred from the meeting.
Certainly nobody expected to
be able to keep the Boardman
crisis a secret. The problem
had to be laid out so the leg
islature could find an answer.
But because newsmen wore
barred, there's the unanswered
question: Is there another, as
yet unannounced, problem with
Boardman?
What the legislature does is
public business. Higher educa
tion gets almost $40 million a
year of taxpayers' money what i
No one was injured although
the building appeared to be a
total loss.
The fire was believed to have
started in the office area of the
morning newspaper which has
an audited weekday circulation
of 25,893 and a Sunday circu
lation of 25,694.
No estimate had yet been
made of damage caused by the
fire which broke out shortly be
fore dawn.
Tentative plans were being!
made to establish temporary-
newspaper offices in the Hotel
Sahara on the Strip.
An interesting finding report
ed by one of our neighboring
newspapers is that, in a rating
of new television shows, eight
out of the top 10 favorites are
comedies. Of the top 40, one
half the shows are comedies.
Not one information or news
show is included in the top 40.
Thus it is indicated that the
modern "magic lantern," as it
is called, isn't the news medi
um it is cracked up to be.
When people watch teevee pro
grams, Apparently, they don't
want to be bothered with any
thing serious. They prefer es
capist entertainment.
Another bit of information
comes from Wasco County.
Our Oregon Legislature was
charged with the job of writing
a new tax program, including
substantial cuts, necessitating
much figuring. The Wasco Coun-,
ty Tax League sent pencil to
Gov. Hatfield and to all mem--
The Bureau of Public Roads i
savs the road system, with a it
cost nf around S41 billion, will! I
greatly reduce the number of:bers of the Oregon Legisla--.'
traffic accidents. ; Around 41,000 ture. .
Americans were killed in high- The legislative program seem
way tragedies in 1963. A studyingly would require much work
on 1,130 miles ol compiciea
freeway revealed a traffic ac-cideptvt-ate
of 2.8 fatalities per
100 million vehicle-miles, Ihis
compares with a rate of 9.7 fa
talities per 100 million- vehiclo
miles on lower standard high
ways. The Freeway, it is said, will
from a pencil.
: In keeping with the mandate
of fjie. pe.ople at the special
election, the Wasco County Tax V
League seems to have made it-:
self -of 'much help to the Lcgisf.;
lature. i . V
The pencils had erasers: at
each end. j '
WASHINGTON WINDOW
Death-Wish Compulsion
COP Way Says Analyst
A NEW APPROACH
The tenth annual Turkey
Show of the Northwest Turkey
slayer Robert Kvans of Honolu-i Breeders Association Is just
hi will be examined while Uudcri two weeks away and entries
Community Clinic Idea Established In East
This It the last In a series those who need it; precare and "outside" where she could set-
ot three articles on a new ap
proach being made to help
the mentally III by orienting
them more closely with their
home communities. Such a pro
gram It currently under wey
in Roseburg.
By HELENA FROST
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
RED BANK, N.J. ( NEA)
A young professor of psychia
try went to see what thoy arc
doing about mental health
in Europe and came home with
a dream.
Home, for Dr. Robert P. Nen
no, is rural country of New Jer
sey; tho dream is to set up
community mental health cen
ters in every small town in
uie lour counties serviced bynoned kitchen, a
the New Jersey State Hospitaltroom gay with
aftercare, daycare and vocation- tie into living, but did not find
al rehabilitation and guidance, it.
President Kennedy's recent S,e wM makc it this time,
message to Congress recom- Afu,r folir weeks al Bridgewav
mended tho "construction of an,,,,.,. ,i, ; Hninu tvnino
comprehensive community men
tal health center" with federal
aid. They will obviously take
lime to build.
Dr. Ncnno, eager for action,
suggests, "Meanwhile we can
use some of our nice old hous-
Nlrc and Victorian-old like
Bridgcway House: While clap
boards, a wido veranda, and a
lawn that unrolls to tho bank
of tho Naveslnk River. Sun
pours into the pleasant bed
rooms, it has a big old-fash-
family living
cretonne and;
Nenno was stimulated by men
tal healUi projects visited in
Britain and the Netherlands,
and when he came homo he
gave up his post as chairman
of psychiatry at the Scton Hall prove.
College of Medicine in .lersev But Dunn has
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
The charts, graphs and sta
tistics to justify Sen. Barry
Goldwater's faith in the conser
vative future of the Republican
Party have been compiled in
persuasive form by t h o uunn
Survey of McLean, Virginia.
The Dunn Survey is Rogers
vote cast for Congress; from
just more than 50 per cent ol
the vote in the mountain states
to nearly 60 per cent in the
west north central. These latter
states are Iowa, Kansas, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota and South Da
kota. Next best showing was
about 57 per cent in the east
north central slates: Illinois.
returns
committed to the theory that
the Republican Party is hexed
by a death-wish compulsion to
ape the Democrats in the field
of welfare statism.
His figures support t h c
Ihcory to which he is commit
ted. It is possible of course,
that another sharp pencil sta
tistician could take tho same
figures and come up with
graphs and charts proving the
opposite of what Dunn seeks to
f iM;nn rimc n,,nn ic (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and 1
again; her hands never forgot
their skill dnrinc the lonz. sick
vears. "But the imtmrtant thinirlln Nottingham, England,
is learning how to live with, th's Practical and com
people," Edith said.
Wisconsin.
Aftar Thomas E. Dewey's los-
ing 1948 campaign abd Ike's
winning efforts in 1952 and 1956,
the Republican congressional
vote was in I960 better than 50
per cent only in the east central
All other sections reported 50
per cent or less. Under Eisen-'l
bower's modern Republican ad- '.
ministration, the Republican
congressional vote trend was
sharply down. In the 1962 con
gressional election the Republi-
Bridgeway House gives the
men and women who pause
there the vital opportunity to
live with people in a normal
setting before moving on into!
the community. They do tho
shopping, housekeeping and re
pairing, go to church, ballet,
movies.
"I began with Red Bank be
cause the mental health asso-
rocnoelnhln
Cto "to plunw rtaht nioT" record vote ana.yVisro un can vote for 35 northern states
LU' lo Plu"Ke "Mil who u. - ramp hnrk tn nn even 50 ner
hejiii some opponent proves uuun -
to uc wrong, nis cnans ana " , , , ,. . .
graphs merit examination by! And. believe it or not: Dunn
politicians on the chance that rpPrts a continuous loss in the
Dunn may be right. What' Democratic appeal to the popu
Dunn does to modern political M ot voting age (21 and
ideas is plenty. He scoffs ati over) under the new-fair deals
the idea that welfare sialism", inclusive. FDR s 27.5
and federal handouts have won! million votes in 1936 -was not
elections for the Democratic ! equalled again until 1960 when
Party. For details, buy Dunn's!'' was, exceeded by John K
passionate program for geria
trics: "1 don't like that word, or
'senior citizens'; but picture an
elderly lady living alone. A bus
driver calls for her, goes in
lo make sure tho gas is turned
off and locks the door. Then he
taxes ner to a center wncrc:nnri(.r hart hnnk nf pranh
they check her medically and
give her a good hot midday
meal. She spends the day use
fully with other older people.
at Marlboro. N.J. It is local im- plants, where the chatter 0f!c'ation is slronK. always a sisn:f she Uves MiUl young rea
n.io Taut pi n. point IS mai ine uemucrauu
The Republican Party hasiSain "me atcr !wo .'""J8, ot
done best since 1932. Dunnilke- Tlie implication is that a
...hot, i ,nio. hard-nosed conservative cam-
the influence of "truth serum,"
Circuit Judgo Charles Redding
ruled recently.
Attorneys for Evans, 27, asked
for sodium pcntathol questioning
and a psychiatric examination
for their client before he entered
a plea to a charge of first de
gree murder.
Evans Is charged in the
strangulation death of Mrs.
Irene Davis, a 41-year-old Pay
ette, Idaho, cattle heiress whose
body was found in a room at
the Portland HUton Hotel Aug.
6.
have started to romo into the
office in Oakland.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1953
Gen. Curtis T. Beoeher, mem
ber ot the Governor's Water lie
sources Committee, Friday
night recommended a survey ot
Douglas County water needs 10 recovering patients
which would cost an estimated .weeks ago.
plementation of the proposed na-i birds and
tional program to make the heard.
care of the mentally ill a com
munity responsibility.
Dr. Nenno is a man of ac
tion as well as a dreamer. It
is only four months since he
patients may
bclof community concern," Dr.
i -Nenno explained, lie praised
took over direction of Marlboro
No, not patients, for already I llle Monmouth County .Mental
these are people living in a
community.
Judy is a young woman, a
Health Association and the exe
cutive director. Mrs. Jannie
Milt, who rallied the communi-
in every community.
Is it just a dream? The psy
chiatrist doesn't think so. "The
community has to care.'
college graduate and a teach
er. In the hospital "aches and
Hospital and already tho statiC'Palns" kept her in bed often,
resident population of this men-) "Last night I stayed up until
tal hospital has been reduced j nearly 10!" she said. Judy will
from 3,000 to 2,600. soon go back to teaching, and
Even more Important is;sharc an apartment when she
Bridgcway House in Red Bank, is ready; she doesn't want to! For several years the Rcd;peoplc sicker."
. J., which opened us door toiUve alone again. iBank house
a few' "You're all alone in the hos- tion
ipital among thousands. boro Hospital and the mental in the community
ty to underwrite a profession
al salary for the house, and to
contribute all the furnishings
and volunteer services. The lo
cal mental health group is a
unit ot the National Associa
tion for Mental Health.
jhave been fixed by congres
jpaign by Republican Richard
Uves, the center also takes careisional and local leaders. Tlie M- Nixon wou,d nave Put nim
nt i, iu,. -, ;,!.,. ;i in the White House.
tinn" lio.rWhm nf th .winn! If Sen. Goldwater needs a sUf-
So Dr. Ncnno's dream adds Party tends to drift with the ,ener for ms conservative cacK
up to a mental health ccntcriwelfare state Demorats. Dunn d01"!;."10 Dunn Survey report is
for geriatrics, another for chil- reports, and is penalized for;'or hlm-
dren, and a Bridgeway House!""" by the voters. The con
gressional and local
tend to resist this me-too drift.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's per-
nc5uimi iin-Mige ana popularity
said. "Indifference, isolation, in- verro?c 0,npr, ccinsinera-
MV'lia til UIC JJt LSIUt llUUI VltV
lions of 1952 and 1956. But the
Eisenhower administration left
stitutionalization Uiey make:.
mendation to 50 members of i house where mental patients
the 1'mpq.ua . t'oquille chapterimay pause on the road back to
of the Society of American For- normal living. It is a rommuni-
estcrs at a
Haven.
21 r,l Ln.tr Jurtl umty can to,the Hepublican Partv weak and:1"""10 V
".Tilf L y -.rli A"d Br!d8pway Hous almost nerveless, a loser i:he stuff
,h .. "Z. 7" "'U"-T H"""' I960. The high point for Republi
sh association. Then Dr. teacher. When people he b re-.,.- ...i -j i i
too well, for 20 of her 60 yearsAenno had his dream nf a more covering patients, they begin to leadership was in 1946 when the
were lost in a "back ward." A complete center for recovering understand what mental illness GOP won control of the 80th
leaders STUFFED TIGER
CANOGA PARK, Calif. (liPl)
A toy tiger proved the undo- -ing
recently of four suspects "
picked ip in a narcotics raid.
Narcotics squad officers who
raided a home in this San For- i
alley community found
stuffed tiger. But instead of
is a good tw. .:. d..i.i; nhp conventional filline. officers -
$i50.0CO. He made the recom-i ' i more than a halfway; This was Edith, who knows health association. Then Dr'teacher. When people help re-i' n..,! h in..i,said it was stuffed with mari-:
juana.
Arrested were Mrs. Chervl A.
Rip Van Winkle brought out ofipatienLv Cooperation crystal
meeting at Carl'sjty mental health center and her long sleep by a drug. Three bred it in record time.
I will offer continuity of care tolyears ago she sought a place! On his European tour Dr.
is- jCongress. In every section out-!Zussa. 19; Mrs. Sue C Johnson,
Understanding, they feci sym- side the South, the Republicans 18; William Walter Hain. 21,
pathy. They care. got 50 per cent or more of therand George Odery McCuistion.