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1 di to p i a I jf a cj. ?oge A-4 the Newt-Review County Has Dowlas County certainly has rea son to feel pride in its decisions in re cent years to attack its problems on the local level The subject was one of consider able discussion by U. S. Rep. Robert Duncan this week when he visited , Roseburg. He said that one of the major reasons for so much federal control is because local governments are not doing their duties well. ; He applauded the work of the county in zoning the coastal area which would include part of the pro posed Sand Dunes National Seashore but chided other counties for failing to take such action to protect the ; area from what he called "honky ' tonk" business operations. During the same discussion, Dun can pointed out that local govern ment's failure to act was also respon sible for the entry of federal govern ! ment into the field of pollution abatement in streams. Douglas County, through its Wa ter Resources Survey office and Wa ter Resources Advisory Committee has kept a close watch on this mat ter. Its sanitary section of the coun ty Health Department has kept a Roseburg Fire Chief LeRoy Sei bold had some suggestions today on , how to put up and maintain Christ ; mas trees so that fire hazards are ; avoided. t A diagonal cut about one inch up from the base of the tree is one of ; the chief's suggestions. Such a cut al- Iowa the tree to take in more water i and stay fresh longer. The best type of stand for the tree, of course, in one that will con tain water. After filling the base unit with water nt the time of erecting the tree, water should be added reg ! ularly thereafter. A Yule tree will , drink quite a bit of water even after it is removed from the forest and placed in the living room, Seibold noted. . It is doubtless unnecessary to point out the tree should be well sup -THE LIGHTER SIDE: a i m Bv DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPl)-Picsi-ilenl Johnson has on several oc casions rccontly urged the American people to rcirain from name - calling and other fhrins nf intramural insults. - This Is certainly a laudable Admonition and to it l wouia Hko to add an appeal ot my Awn. My plea is this: !f vou Insist in reviling or vil Hying someone, please try lo bo creative about it. tft-nnklv thn In-nnri nf slundc being circulated nowadays is nt only deplorable but ooring. J ho minting of invectives, which might be defined as verba! taxi dermy, seems to ho a dying art. Onn l-nrolv encounters a nor son who Is highly skilled at taking the hide off someone. At least, it is a rare experience for mo. People Lot Intereit a Weeks and even months go By without my hearing a single authentically originul molcdic yon. People apparently no long er take pride in Inventing vi tuperation. Thn standards of Hillings unto have dropped to the point where "sick, sick, sick" has come to . be regarded as a clever ex pletive. If you denounce some one as a "rot link" you are credited with being a devostut ing wit. Acrimony, as the President indicated, is at a high level, hut it is conducted almost totally in cliches. 1 haven't run across a truly stylish dispongcmom sinrc Speaker John W. McCurniack. The privy purse In English government is the amount set aside in the civil list tor tho private use of the sover eign. During tho reign of Queen Victoria this sum was 60,000 pounds yearly. 1 ClKTCkPVttfit IrlNBR'Ka Ml 'Do It Yourself Tradition Be Careful Of Christmas Trees You Viiy, Use Creativity D-Mass., professed a few years ago that he held a certain col league in "minimum high re card." One novel bit of execration did turn up not long ago, how ever, in a letter that Rep. Mor ris K. Udull, D-Ariz., received from one of his constituents, Ranks With Lowest It said that "of all the rats and snakes elected to office in Washington to represent the people and carry out their wish es, you rank head and shoul ders beneath the lowest." I enjoy shutting my eyes and rying to visualize someone; ranking head and shoulders be neath a serpent, but the picture won't come in. Nevertheless, It does present a challenge. On that score alone it sinks high above the average contemporary tirade. Another fulmination I have admired recently was directed at mo by a doctor in Ohio who became incensed over some thing 1 had written. He dashed off a diatribe sug gesting that 1 had "descended from a long line of bachelors." Now that is the type of Philip pic that made this nation great. if wo are going to abuse each other, let us at least use a little imagination. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 19 Carl K. Wimherly tendered his resignation today as district attorney for Douglas County. Guy Cordon was immediately named as his successor. Taxes were in the news 40 years ago today. Taxes, not the turmoil of foreign nations, nor transportation, nor even t h e plight of the farmer, is the big gest issue before the American people at this time. In the words of Ken. Arthur Capper. of Kansas. The senator said taxes amounted to $64 63 per year lor every man, woman and child in the United Slates. IS YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1931 It was announced todav that Ihe new Rose Grade School will slart classes tomorrow. Children in that arc had been meeting in temporary quarters t me llaptist Sunday school building and the junior high i . . . i Taken Irom the files of The News-Review e FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1963 close watch on pollution problems and has worked diligently to bring pressures to bear to correct them. Pollution abatement also is a ma jor consideration in the efforts to es tablish better streamflows in the county through the use of a system of dams. It will be given special em phasis in determining the amount of streamflow needed in constructing dams. These are only two of the subjects which have been attacked on the lo cal level. The county has established a virtual tradition of handling as many of its problems as possible lo cally. Roseburg, for example, shunned federal aid to rebuild the downtown section of the city after the Aug. 7, 1959, explosives truck blast. Drain has become known as the "do it yourself" city because of its actions of solving its own problems. These are indications of a frontier tradition which other counties and states could do well to adopt. Only when it becomes part of the warp and woof of the nation again will the costs and controls of federal govern ment be whittled. ported. A teetery Christmas tree is a potential hazard. Avoid proximity to fireplaces or heating installations. "As far as lighting decorations are concerned, use those which have the UL (Underwriter Laboratory) stamp of approval," the chief urged. Once up, the trees should be checked periodically. If a bulb ap pears to be turning the tree needles brown, it is a good idea to re-arrange the lighting so that bulb is away from the dried area. Some families leave their trees up for a few days after Christmas while , others take them down right away. The chief's suggestion on this point: When the needles start to fall, it's time to take the tree down. As a final suggestion, the chief urged occupants to turn off tree light ing before leaving the house! The Almanac By United Prosi International Today is Friday, Dec. 13, the 317th day ot 1303 with 18 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The evening stars ore Jupiter! haturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1642, New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Iasmnn. In 1918, American soldiers at tached to the Third Army crossed the Shine River at Co blcntz, Germany. In 1928, the New York Phil harmonic Orchestra premiered George Gershwin's tone poem, An American in Pans. In 1937, Japanese soldiers captured Making, China and be gan systematic looting of the city. A thought for the day Brit ish novelist A. Conan Doyle physician and creator nf Sher lock Holmes said: "Whenever you have eliminated the impos sible, whatever remains, how ever improbable, must be the truth." BEER SOAKED SOCKS LONDON (UPI) Two auto mobile Association patrolmen found themselves ankle deep in brer Wednesday when Un called lo clean up 800 bottles of brew that were broken when i beer truck turned over. "My socks arc soaked in It," Patrolman Leslie Haines said. "The wile will never believe why." school. The old school had been abandoned when it was found in extremely poor condition. Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney arc the stars in the current big hit playing at the Indian theatre in Roseburg "Boys Town." In another news item today, Mickey Rooney is said to have raced at the fan tastic speed of 100 miles per hour in an automobile he and a partner "souped up." 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1953 The llenninger store in Glen dale was reported broken into today. The burglars took $106 in change from the oftice and scattered merchandise over the store. Under the dirjMion nf S. Clarence Trued, the Roseburg Choral Society, members of local church choirs and a leeted orchestra will present Handel's "Messiah" tonight at the Central Junior High School auditorium. News Analysis HP By PHIL NEWSOM -Utinn ViMni- Pli7 KslonSSOm returned from Argentine exile to become president of Bolivia after a successful revolt ni April, 1952, a prime mover ini his return was a labor leader; named Juan Lcchin Oquendo. Since the 1940's tno two naa worked together in leadership of National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) and when Paz became president Lechin assumed the post of minister of mining and petroleum. Lechin's power rested upon his control of the Communist- dnminnlnrl tin minors' union. He himself has been described as a Trotskyite. Thn MNR was leftist. But up on the question just how far to Ihe left the two men separated For his part, Paz declared "In an economically depend lent country like ours an ex tremist revolution cannot be accomplished. Guarantees will ho nivi'ii In foreign cnnital on the condition that it brings real benefits lo the country. The Paz government has had Reader 'Hate Pattern' Doesn't Involve All The People To The Editor: In the aftermath of the tragic and senseless assassination of our President, 1 nm constrained to make some pertinent obser vations: The so-called "hate pattern" advanced by some persons asi the Indirect cause of such things is, 1 believe, overstrcss- ed. It's true that too many of the old ways have been submerged or destroyed and that the new generation finds itself confront ed with an entirely new order of things from that which we of the former generation k n e w. Gone arc the days of closer companionship, closer family ties, more neighborliness, court- csv and low taxcx. But let's not blame the new generation for too much of this. We of yes tervear had an entirely differ ent set ot conditions from those which now exist. We had to be close, friendly and neighborly. We had to be more with our kinfolk. We did not have the automobile, the travel trailer. the inviting highways to lure us away. Wc did not have ra dio, television, stereophonic re production and other means of.,he Rinm (rom nuisance, entertainment. Too, each gen eration thinks it knows more than the last one. The reasons behind such oc currences as the tragedy at Dallas have always been with us in my estimation. In Ihe creation of life, through heriditary processes and some thing in the genes and mutations of our crealion in our mother's womh, about fifteen per cent of human beings art" born as in herently nonconformists. The fifteen per cent, of course, is anjand smarter police forces, then arbitrary, though generally ac- cepted. figure. These people will not, or cannot, accept eonven- tion. Their behavior pattern is; contradictory, anti-social, or.i j One That Wasn't on the Map Civil War In Bolivia two main supports. One came from the peasants who received land under government agrari an reform. The other source was the United States which has supported the government with S250 million. This year's aid program is budgeted at $65 million. U.S. aid lo Bolivia is the largest per capita in Latin America. The elections of 1960 named Paz president of the country for a second consecutive term and Lcchin vice president. But,' although operating un der the same party banner, the two men had reached the end of the political ways. Lcchin went into virtual exile as Bolivian ambassador to the Vatican. He quit that post two months ago to take up active opposition to Paz, depending for his support upon the rest less tin miners who still re tained their weapons from the revolt of 1952. His campaign, both anti-Paz and anti-United States, is based upon opposition to government Opinions cry. and in constant conflict with itself and its surroundings. It was the fifteen per cent of Hitler's Germany that led Eu rope to a blood bath and dc slroyed six million Jewish peo ple. It is the fifteen per cent of Russia's hierarchy that would "bury" us. It's the fifteen per, cent which created Castro's Cuba. j Wc could have disarmament if wo could get rid of that f if -1 teen per cent. Most of our laws arc designed to curb that ele ment. Our police force and our highway slaughter would be greatly reduced if it were not for this fifteen per cent. Chis Icrs, liars, cheaters, thieves, rapists I could go on and on mostly come from this class. .Most of our criminals get a "bum rap" to hear them tell it. Every element of the business world, all of our government agencies must penalize and in convenience all of us to set up rules and restrictions to pro tect against "fifteen percent ers." This maddening, but ever present, element amongst us, by their warped psychopathic minds, keep us all in a turmoil. They accentuate this "M a d, Mad World" and run up the ales of tranquilizers. They run to paranoidal murderers. Oswald, reportedly the assas sinator of our President, was one of these, in my mind. ! Fuighty-five per cent of wc hu mans will, within reasonable limits, obey the law, pay taxes, be honest, decent citiens and neighbors. What can we do W illi the other 15 per cent? I wouldn't know. Build bigger and better prisons more and more on questionable rehabilitation? Organiic bigger hope for the besf You can't shoot 'em! Kir hard Firman Sr. 1350 W Mulhnllanrf I'r. Roseburg, Ore. Brews Crisis efforts to clean up the mess in the nationalized tin industry. Ridden With Fraud The mines, nationalized as one of the first acts of the 1952 rev olulion, are shot through with fcathcrbedding and fraud. Ex haustion of once - rich veins, worn-out machinery and falling prices have added to the chaos in an industry accountable for 60 per cent of Bolivian exports. Government efforts to intro duce economic reforms, includ ing reduction in the work force, have met violent resistance. The resistance,- stirred 'up' by Lcchin, reached a climax in the kidnaping of four Amcri icons and six other foreign ers as hostages for the release of three Communist leaders held by the government, two for murder and a third for fraud. Inherent in the act were two threats. The use of the 6,000-man miners' militia in civil war against the government, with the end result in case of government defeat a Marxist government. The establishment of a pat tern of kidnaping first employed by Fidel Castro and later by Venezuelan rebels to dramatize any grievance against tho home government or the United States. State Beard Sets Competency Goal PORTLAND (UPI) The State Board of Higher Educa tion has adopted a policy that would insure competency by community college instructors. Dr. Miles C. Romney said the policy was necessary to guaran tee that community college credits can Dc transferred to in istitutions of h i g h e r education l'C is vice chancellor for aca domic affairs with the state sys tem. Under state law, the stale board must npprovc courses in the colleges which are intended to be transferable and must also approve the hiring of in struciors who will teach such i courses. ! The nnlirv aUn cttnulafnc thai community colleges have ade quate library facilities, and that they must not impair the effec tiveness of instructors by ask ing them to teach too many dif ferent courses. The scope of courses taught without intention of transfer credit is determined by the State Department of Education and the colleges. I HAS ONE VOTE . WASHINGTON (UPD-Dem-erat Jake Pickle, a contender for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Homer Thorn berry. D-Tcx.. could count on at least one vote today that of President Johnson. The Chief Executive cast an absentee ballot Wednesday for the Dec. 17 election in Texas' loth Congressional District. Thornberry has resicned from Confrrss. effective Dec. 20. to become a V S. district court judse. Pickle, a former John son campaign worker, is op posed by Refill lican Jim Dobbs. -In The Day's News- By FRANK The news at this moment in history? It has some interesting an gles. Mr. Kroosh is in trouble. Hm'p as his country is. it isn't producing as much food a his npnnle need to keen them happy. In particular, it isn't nrodueine enough wheat to pro vide them with as much bread as they want and need. As evprvone is aware, he has been buvine wheat wherever he could lay hands on it. He bas been having some trouble II- nancing his wheat purchases. What's wrong? Mr. Kroosh lays the blame on a bad growing season. But the real trouble seems to lie deep er than that. The soil is thin. It needs vast quantities of chem ical fertilizer. To get the neces sary amount of fertilizer, he's going to have to spend some where in the neighborhood of 42 billion rubles (about $46 bil lion) to build the chemical plants needed to produce the fertilizer he must have to make his land produce enough food to keep his people contented with communism. That suggests this thought: Can he finance all this as well as nuclear weapons and space travel along with all Daily Bible Reading By Roseburg Ministerial Association Scripture: Philippians 4:4-9 "The Lord is near; have no anxiety, but in everything make your requests known to God in prayer and thanksgiving.' Phil 4:6. Is there one among us who is not burdened with anxiety who has not prayed for the passing of anxiety, who has not cried with Job "I have no rest" from torture. Yes, our age has been dubbed as the "age of anxiety" and probably rightly so. "Have no anxiety District Board Appoints Rancher Don Lilja, Canyonville ranch cr and retired Navy man, was appointed to the Canyonville School District budget board at the regular meeting of the board of directors this week in the high school, according to Supt. Norman York. Lilja fills the vacancy on the budget board left by Leonard Clifton, whose term had ex pircd. Others on the budget board include Oscar Hoverson, Harvey Ringcn, Don Nicholson and Blake Hardy. Together with the- board of directors, these men will work on the 1964-65 budget shortly after the first of the year; In other business, the group heard a report on the recent school board convention at Port land by Charles Dowd, who, with York, represented the Can yonville board. P. was also re ported that the State Board will meet this week and at that time vote upon the proposed reorganization of Districts 19 and 8 (Canyonyille - Myrtle Creek). The Canyonville board voted agreement with the printed rec ommendation for a Douglas County curriculum Material Center to begin with a film library. For some two hours of the meeting, according to York, the board members discussed the goals of the district to re-assess their thinking. Although written goals were not the purpose of the discussion, the group did decide that in many ways they were achieving their goals by furthering reorganization. With reorganization, not only the small percentage of young peo ple going on lo college will re ceive adequate preparation, but those to whom high school is the end of their education will have some kind ot a trade, ac cording to Mrs. R. E. Proctor, correspondent. WOOD (Dry at Green) V "-I 1 ! WOQdI SAWDUSTlHiV AM Orders C.O.D. DRY OAK b Large PEELER CORE PLANER ENDS ROSEBURG LUMBER CO. til JENKINS the things his people are going to want to keep them happy? And If be doesn't give his people what they want, can he hold their confidence? And if he can't hold their confidence, what WILL he do? He can't put a soldier to watch each peasant. That would take too many soldiers. And the soldiers also are going to want a lot of things that the people of the West have. History tells him that if he can't provide the things his people want, he's going to face BAD trouble. What to do about it? Here's a word of advice: Forget all this communist hog wash. Communism never has provided the people with the things they WANT. Start with your farmers. They provide the food your people must have to keep them happy. Give each Russia.! farmer HIS OWN piece of land. Let him woik it as he pleases. Let him KEEP WHAT HE MAKES. h The first thing you know, your farmers will be producing all the food your people need. We learned that trick at Jamestown and Plymouth. It WORKS. Communism DOESN'T work. are welcome words, but do they really get beyond the sounding boards of our ear drums? Some do not feel the nearness of the Lord. Others rise from prayer confident that their requests have been denied and often they have been. Reinhold Ncibuhr's formula for overcoming anxiety has brought comfort to many: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference." Nowhere in the Christian .gos pel are we promised complete freedom from anxiety. Who can read the "Gethsemane experi ence of Jesus" and fail to feel the anxiety 'that wretched the Galilean spyhole- being on that fateful night. The Lord was surely near him; he made his requests known to God in pray er and thanksgiving. And yet, it was a bitter and miserable ordeal. However, he arose from prayer with the "serenity to accept the thing (the cross) which he could not change and remain true to his mission. He went forth with the courage to fulfill his mission by dying as a "Son of God," which he did on the morrow. Anxiety is inevitable; there will be many Gethsemanes, but he who "makes his requests known to God in prayer and thanksgiving" can arise serene, courageous, and at peace with God and man. Rev. Clark S. Enz, Pastor First Methodist hurch Roseburg, Oregon Y ROY YOUNG THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PERSONAL ATTEN tion. . .when you need us --vt'l we'll be here. . . , -S You'Jl be pro- " tccted against loss by ade quate coverage . . . 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