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:
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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.
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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
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