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"Wonder How Fierce HE Is?'1 Cdii or i a i I" i -In The Day's News- a a e a By FRANK JENKINS Pogo 4 The News-Review , SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1963 Boardman Natural Political Issue Gov. Mark- Hatfield is apparently leaving the next political move on the Boardman project to others. You can bet he knows better than ' to think the project won't gain impe tus as a political issue as the elec tion year draws near. In appraising the work of the spe cial session, he said Wednesday that he did not expect the Boardman proj ect to become a 1964 campaign is sue. But he didn't make a flat state ment of it. He added, "if the Demo crats want to make it an issue, I welcome it." Several men with aspirations have attacked the Boardman agreement. The steps the Boeing Co. announces soon will pretty well determine how effective the political uses of the is sue will be. But you can bet Board man will pop up many times in next year's election campaign. The Bend Bulletin in an editorial this week insists that at least one of the objections made to the contract between the state and Boeing for a space-age industrial park is foolish ness. It says that much has been made of the fact that Boeing will pay Mor row County "only" $8,000 per year in lieu of taxes on the land it leases. "But this land has not paid any tax es, not any, for 24 years. Prior to that time, it paid precious little. It is Class V and Class VI land, use less for any agricultural purpose ' other than a few weeks of limited grazing each year. It has little value as residential property, principally because not enough people live in the area to create any pressure for residential developments. It is unlike ly in our time that such a need will appear. Its only use is for a bombing range, or for industrial purposes," : the editorial says. It adds one more telling point : "Boeing is not the first company the state tried to interest in the site. But it is the only one which showed enough interest to work out terms of a lease." The legislature apparently s a w these things when it gave its approv al to a bill which should eliminate the last roadblock. But you can bet it won't eliminate the last political pronouncement. Heroes Give Blood In Positive Way Some heroes achieve that status in one spectacular act. Others receive their recognition in less immediate but just as noteworthy ways. One of these is Clarence Rasmus sen whose picture appeared on Page 1 of Wednesday's News-Review. He had contributed his 56th pint of blood in the American Red Cross blood re cruitment program. He joins Harold Schmeer as a seven-gallon donor. It's hard to comprehend how ex ceptional their contribution has been without putting seven gallons of blood in perspective. The body contains between five and one - quarter to six and one third quarts of blood. Thus Rasmus sen and Schmeer each gave blood equivalent to about five times their body capacity. These contributions in the effort to save human lives rates them as our nominees as real, honest to good ness heroes. Nationalists From Wrong Country In our Nov. 23 editorinl, it was noted that an assassination attempt was made on President Harry Tru man's life by Cuban nationalists. The nationality of the two making the attempt was questioned by a reader, and the facts show the two were actually Puerto Rican nation alists. The incident occurred Nov. 1, 1950rThe two men, Griselio Torre sola and Oscar Collazo tried to shoot their way into Blair House. Torre sola was killed and a guard, Pvt. Leslie Coffelt was fatally shot. Colla zo was wounded but recovered and was tried and convicted March 7, .1951 for the murder of Coffelt. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by President Truman July 24, 1952. Daily Bible Reading By Roseburg Ministerial Association Scripture Matthew 7:13-29 In the rush of this l busy sea sun too often, I fear, we may read the daily devotional article without turning to God's word to see for ourselves the true basis for tho thoughts present ed. If this has been your pattern you may very well be neglect ing the most solemn warning ever uttered by our Lord; Turn and read the scripture portion above. It you hoven't time to read both; rend God's word in stead of mine. Whenever men have turned to God's Word, ". . . for doc trine, for reproof, for correc tion, for instruction in righteous ness . . ." (II Tim. 3:16) they have been renewed spiritually. This was tho Master's deep con cern in this passage. Not that men lie "religious," but that they find ". , . tho way that lcadeth unto life" (vs. 14), There are not many ways or paths leading to God. Jesus warned, ". . . strait is the gate, and narrow is tho WAY, which lcadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.' There is a. law of nature that applies in tho realm of the spirit: the law of like kind. The Almanac He says, there are "false prophets" (vs. 15) and "de ceived professers" (vs. 21). But he tells us how we can know for ourselves and be wise, Therefore WHOSOEVER hear eth these sayings OK MINE and DOETH them, 1 will liken him unto a wise man" (vs. 24). 11 is important that we no lice Uic stress that be places on tho right foundation upon which we build the "good life." What no man would be fool enough to do with a house, many and many a man is fool enough to do in matters of religion. "For no other founda tion can man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (I Cor. 3:11). This foundation is tho rock referred to by Jesus after Peters "great confes sion." "Thou art the Christ, the Eon of the living God" (Matt. 16:10). "And this is the record, Unit God hath given us eternal life, and this lifo Is in his Son (I John 5:11). "Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things arc passed away; behold, all things are become new" (II Cor. 5:17). Jesus used things we com monly know to illustrate the Today Is Saturday, Dec. 7 the 341sl day of 10113 with 24 to lollow. The moon is at its lust quar- ler. The evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1787, Delaware became the first slate to ratify the United Stales Constitution. In 1911, Japan struck sudden ly in the Pacific, bombing Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake and Guam Islands, and the Brit ish possessions of Singapore and Hong Kong. A thought for the dav Presi dent Kninklin D. Hoosevelt said: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much." Is that possible? There are two ways in which it might be done: 1. An economy in which peo pic will be able to earn so much money that they will be able to pay practically any price for what they want. 2. An economy in which pric-. es win remain so iuw mat peo pie can afford to buy what they want. pyi Budding Matador mj Provides Show Trees arc known by the fruilAVay of life in the Spirit. Since they produce. Men nro univers ally known to be "sinners" by nature and by choice. In their own strength "the Rood that (they) would (they) do not: but tho evil which (they) would not that (they) do." (Horn. 7:19), But "Thanks be to God." Jesus said, "be born again" (John 3:3). John tells us, ". , . as many as received him, to them . gave ho the power to become the sons of God" . , . (John 1 ; 12 ). Thus, He tells us that there arc two' kinds of men; good and evil, and that they shall be known by "their fruits." 54S S.C. St. PubllthMl Dally Ecot Sunday by NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. Roi.tHirq, Oration Telephone 47MJ7I tntaratl ai tecond elm mattar May 1. IN. al In pom oltica al RoiatwrQ, Draoon, urtr acl el March J. ill) ) V. Rraniwr PutAUHr lha Nawa-Ravlaw u a trambar of thai umtea Prest tntarruitional. fcEA Sarvica, Atadlt Auraau ftt CtrctiUtlitw and th Ore jon rivioar PubhfM Aitarial-on National Advartli no Roraatltva It Nawlpaptf Advtrlitino SefvKO Co.. Run eunging, san pranciKa, urn. SUBSCRIPTION RATES arrler and Ro?Htrfl P O. Sous t OMrl. SI. 151 monthl, SIC.SOi yaaf. l))0O. Oy Mall In Douolal County: 1 month. IMS! 1 month. S4.50: a month. MM: J yoar Itl.ao. Outiida o Douout County: . ,.vn, !. i monini, U.J, monthl. ;Hjl 1 ytar SH OO. Ills coming people of all ages have been "astonished at His doctrine" (vs. 28). This lesson is given to help us make sure we know why we strive for righteousness and why we hope through trials and tribulations. Conversion changes the nature and produces the good fruit of life spontaneously just as apple trees produce apples because it is their naturo to do so. "There fore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and dneth them I will liken unto a wise man . . ." (vs. 21). In Ihe rush of this busy sea son Hie wise man will turn again to the words of one having authority . . ." (vs. 29 and live abundantly. Howard I.everett, pastor First Church of God BEER FROM TAP LONDON (IT1) Beer from the tai that dream of boor drinkers In-camc a reality hi lloyston near Harnslcy in York shire recently. A modern sink unit was being demonstrated In Hoyslim's Ur ban Council offices, but no wa ter supply was available. A barrel of beer w as used instead Council fathers declared the demonstration a success. By ROBERT C. RUARK I'ALAMOS, Spain. I don't know if I can make this clear to a lot of people who have never seen, will never see, or oon i want to see a bullfight, but I'm going to give it a try, anyhow, if only in the memory of my old bullfighting friend, Rex Smith. Guod bullfights, and especial ly good bullfighters, arc tough to come by these days. Bull fighting is not a sport, but ba- lcally it is like boxing used to be: both the bull and the fighter arc forged by hunger. The best became the Babe Ruths and Joe DiMaggios and Mickey Mantles of the country. A lot died in the process of try ing to make it in the majors,! Death Imminent Bullfights arc basically pre cise ballets, with death always imminent and certainly inev itable for the bull at the end. A great bullfight con be. a magical affinity between man and am mal, almost a tragic love affair whose end is predictable. Well, you don t see so many any more. Spain is full of tour ists who don't know a mulcta from a picador one is a red flannel cape on a staff and the other is a fat man armed with a pike-pole on a scraggy horse and the tendency of the bull fighter who is booked solid through the season is not to take many chances for an au dience that doesn't know any thing about the art, and has only come for the, color, the blood, and the music. So I just about gave up the bull business over the past few years, being something of a snob. The aforementioned much mourned Smith and I had made some circuits in, Spain and Mex ico. -The also late and much mourned Ernest Hemingway and I had laughed and drunk wine together in Pamplona. And some of my better o 1 d friends had been bullfighters. THE LIGHTER SIDE: Ladies' Choices Lost In Statistics By DICK WEST WASHINGTON ( f PI (-News papers, magazines, radio, tele vision and the lady next door all play a vital role in keeping us informed. Hut nobody can be said truly to be abreast of the times un less he also audits one or more trade publications. These specialized journals frequently carry items, outside the scope of the general media, that reflect fundamental chang es in the warp and woof of our society. Particularly the woof. I ran across a good example of this the other day while thumbing through a back issue of an oil industry publication It was among the reading ma terial in my dentist's wailing room. My dentist lets his patients deaden I heir nerves on litera lure and then charges them for novocain?. This item appeared under the heading "Women Play Greater Utile in Care of Family Autos." Which is the kind of cheery news a person likes to read in a dental office Pleoiant Visions It conjured up pleasant vi sions of my wife out washing the car. changing the tires and putting on the snow chains. The headl.ne, however, proved to be misleading. The article it self began as follows: "Recent surveys indicate thai America's 36 million women drivers are making more and more decisions about the fami ly's automotive service." Then il went on to say that 33 per cent of women drivers select specific service stations; 25 per cent decide which brand of gasoline to buy; 21 per cent make the decisions on minor re pairs and oil changes; 18 pcr cent on battery purchases: and 17 per cent on new tires." Although this was not the role I had in mind, I nevertheless found the statistics absorbing couldn't help but wonder who makes these decisions for the other 67, 75. 79, 82 and 83 per cent. Not All Married Their husbands? That might lie true In some cases, but not all of America's 36 million worn en drivers are married. If only 33 per cent of them select specific service stations. then it must be assumed that some women just keep on dnv ing until they run out of gas "Didn't you notice th.it (he gauge registered empty?'' "Yes, but 1 couldn't decide which station to patronize " Stranger things have hap pencil. Also, note mat wniie 33 per cent select the station, only 25 per cent select the brand o( gasoline. This imnlies that 8 per cent pick a brand anil then stop at a station that sells another brand. Stranger things than that have happened, too, Sight Was Splendid But the other day, three nicei ladies one from Africa, one from Houston, Tex., and the other from Atlanta, Ga., conned me into taking them to a cor rida in the nearby small town of San Fcliu de Guixols, and I didn't struggle hard. There was nobody of importance on the card except a horse and a man named Don Alvarito Dom- ceo, wno is eauea a rcionca dor," and who fights his bulls entirely on horseback, and does everything better ahorse than most bullfighters do atoot. It is a splendid sight. The horses are purebred Arabs trained tnj the highest degree of dressage. The man rides mostly with knee pressure, and the combination makes one think of the classic centaur. It had been raining heavily for days, and when we got there the usher told me that Domccq had been unable to transport his noble steeds over the roads There would be no fancy horse work, he said, hut there was a young fellow, a standby bull fighter, substituting for t h e horse. I would have left imme diately except for the ladies who had never seen a bullfight Once in a while, on a gray day, after two weeks of rain, in a hick town, with a substitute bullfighter, you are destined to see something a Ruth hitting Ills first home run, a Joe l.ouis in the riim, a Bob Feller blaz ing that first strike. He Was Unknown Here we have this Colombian Indian, named Aurelio Saa, bill ed as "El Colombiano." He was dark and hawkish and all Indian. He had only become a senior bullfighter two weeks ago taking his doctorate in t h c smalisli town of nearby Gcrona Apart from the people in Call Colombia. South America, no body ever beard of him. He wasn't even on the menu. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Most bullfighters do one or two things well, but fail with the third. The man with the big ca, e is no good with the little flannel mulcta. Most senior matadors don t even bother to place their own ban derillas the frilled barbed slicks any more. And if they do everything else well, they don't kill well, which means soing in straight over the horns and wetting the knuckles as the Ihrce - foot sword goes all the way in to the hilt. kneed. I looked at my unsoph isticated girls. 'Let's go," they said in chor us. We are never going to see it any better. There were three more fights including the Indian again, but I nodded. My girls were right, I've been watching it for 30 years and l will never see n any better than what 1 saw done Ly a substitute for a horse (Copyrt.. 1963 by United Fea. Synd., Inc.) In Washington President John-i son has set as a goal lor his administration a five million in crease in the number of obs. Such an increase, he said, would bring the number of jobs avail able in the U.S.A. to a record total of 75 million. Which is to say: The present population of the United States is somewhere inj the neighborhood of 188 million, according to the experts. A total of 75 million jobs would mean an average of one job for each two and one half persons. He concluded: ".' "Add them all together and you get a pandemonium louder than a 40-ton truck or a light twin-engined airplane louder than the law allows in many factories." "And "Noise can produce as great a hangover as the alcohol. You don't hear many complaints about the alcohol, but some, es pecially older people; reject cocktail parties because they can't stand the noise." What a world! " And it's getting noiser by the hour. i.2 xtus Question: Which is the better way? Let's put it this way: It can be done either way, but it can't be done both ways at once. If prices go up every time wages go up and wages go up; every time prices go up, there will be no change in the situa tion. Another modern problem: Portland is host this week to the 17th clinical meeting of the American Medical Association. At one session, Dr. Lee Farr, a professor of nuclear medicine at Houston, Tex., told his hear ers that NOT bacteria or virus es but NOISE CONTROL may be the medical frontier today. He added: "The air today is polluted as much by noise as by virus, bacteria, fall-out or dirt. If your nerves go jingle, jangle, jingle, the trouble may lie not in tired blood but in DECIBEL1TIS, which means noise sickness." Cjo ri e (ISij, Taken from the files of tht News Review 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1923 Under the recommendation of the County Court, the Tax Su pervision Commission has in cluded in the Douglas County budget a sum of $4,420 for the purpose of forming and main taining a full-time county health unit, consisting of a physician and two full-time nurses, who shall have complete charge of medical supervision and sanita tion in the county. ,. , 25 YEARS AGO k : Dec. 7, 1938 Suspense among .exhibitors at the Northwestcrrt ,Turkey.' show in progress in Oakland tighten ed today as judges began. nar rowing the field .and approach ed the selection of the champi- ; onship bird. i , , Tax Fight Cost High For Loss SALEM (UPI) Backers of the legislature's $60 million tax1 increase package spent $17,186 to suffer a 3Hi to 1 defeat at the Oct. 15 referendum, the sec retary of state's office disclosed today. Victorious opponents spent $4,- 239 and are still $2,754 in the red, the accounting revealed. A preliminary list of cam paign expenditures announced Oct. 28 s h o w e d supporters of Ihe measure spent $28,781, and opponents $3,880. Biggest contributor in the fight to salvage the tax bill was the Oregon Education Associa tion which donated $24,523. Second largest was a $14,018 contribution of breakage fee re funds by students at the Univer sity of Oregon. In addition, the UO class of 1964 donated $400, and the UO class of 1965 gave $540. University of Oregon Presi dent Arthur S. Flcmming- was listed as having spent $2,308 in Ihe unsuccessful campaign. The Committee for Economy and Equitable Taxation, headed by Albany newspaper editor J. Francyl Howard, spent $3,834, but listed only $1,080 in contri buttons. The secretary of state's office announced it would continue to request Howard to list donor to cover the $2,751 shortage. we II write him ever y month, and after a while if he doesn't list enough contributors ii to cover the shortage, we will turn ine mauer over 10 me dis trict attorney," Jack Thompson, elections supervisor, com mented. I He went on to say: "And don't expect to find peace and quiet at home. Home Sweet Home may be noisier than a boiler factory. In fact, that may be the source of all your decibility. We have ordi nances to control noise on the city streets. Most ultra-modern offices are noisc-eonditioned. "But back at the old home stead the soothing low of the cattle ;at evening has been re placed -by the slosh,vglirglt3ciijnnvjHei tnump ana spiasn or tne ursn washer and the clothes washer and dryer, the roar of the va cuum cleaner and the high-pitch ed snarl of the hair dryer to say nothing of the TV, the radio and the record player." Mrs. Donald Helliwill was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Girls League at Hoseburg Senior High School. Mrs. Helliwell spoke on the sub ject "Simplicity in Clothes." : Cornne Harpham, , president, was in charge ,of the business meeting. .. . 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1953 The new Myrtle Creek Rotary Club received its charter Satur- , 'day: 'night "from Harry (Dlllin, : district . Rotary governor. - It was accepted ny j Bob Adams, president of the : club. Harris Ellsworth, past ! president of the Roseburg club, ! used education :as a Rotary ' theme in his tall as featured : speaker at the charter meeting. ' Sleep SOUNDLY--Use our night depository Make dopotitt at our outside depository, safely, at any hour. It's well-lighted, too. BUSINESSMEN, ESPECIALLY LIKE THE CONVENIENCE AND SAFETY OF OUR NIGHT DEPOSITORY! Douglas County BANK Roseburg STATE Oakland SutherCn Performance Sensational This Indian performed like Carlos Arruza. for my dough the best all-around matador who ever lived, as I saw him with Smith 17 years ago. El Colombiano was sensational with the cape, taking a hot bull on his knees. He broke his handerillas in half and placed them in the charging hull, uml again on his knees. He was a marvel with the final cape, the mulcta. performing passes 1 have not seen since Arruia and Manolete, And finally, when he killed, it was like the old days when bullfighters didn't poke at bulls, but offered their bodies tor death as they went over the armed head. 1 was goose pimply and weak- An Invitation to . . . LADIES' NIGHT TONIGHT 7:00 TO 9:00 PM ENTERTAINMENT REFRESHMENTS Served 1M i w 7 mW ' "TV . 1481 NE STEPHENS ... 672-4811
