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i t o r i a t f-a Poge 4 The , News-Review SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1963 National Housing Needs Still Great The backbone of the market for Douglas County timber housing appears certain to., remain : strong, judging from a number of survey released recently. The National Association of Home Builders estimates there will be 862,-. 000 new families formed in each of the next three years, rising to over a million a year from 1967 to 1970. The increase in the number of 20-to-22-year-olds in the last four years of this decade is expected to create a new high demand in multifamily rental units. This demand has been increasing since 1960, reducing single-family home ownership propor tionately. All these changing factors force housing experts to do some pretty sharp calculating on the volume of construction to prepare for in the next few years. F. ' W Dodge' Corp. already has made its prediction of a 2.1 per cent increase in housing construction vol ume to a $20.25 billion total for 1964. A survey, for the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. predicts about 1.55 million new housing starts for this year and next. ' Two-thirds of this new housing is -expected to be built in five areas of population concentration. They are Ihe Boston-New York to Washington "Megapolis," Central Great L a k e s from Buffalo to Milwaukee, Califor nia, "metropolitan" Texas and Flor ida. Making a survey on existing U.S. . housing the base for all the new construction Department of Agri culture's annual Outlook Conference in Washington has turned up much interesting data. . Of the 58 million occupied housing units reported by the 1960 census, one-fourth had been built during the preceding 10 years. Another fourth were reported structurallv unsound and lacking in essential facilities. A fifth of these units 5 per cent of the total were classed as delapidated. Nearly two-thirds of America's housing units are owner-occupied. But 60 per cent of them were mort gaged and 9 out of 10 had been mort gaged since 1950. Farm housing and rural nonfarm housing have shown great improve ment in the last decade. Twenty years ago only 15 per cent of rural housing boasted mechanical refrig erators. Today practically every farm home has one. Seventy-five per cent have run ning water, 62 per cent have flush toilets, and more than 50 per cent have freezers and other appliances. Farmers Home Administration loans are responsible for much of this new construction and moderniza tion. For the year ending last June 30. FHA made 20,000 housing loans for a total of $186 million. But the rural South still presents the greatest problems in . housing, since 40 per cent of all farm homes are found in that area and many of them are classed as dilapidated. from the PRESSBOX By VIN BRENNER i The Almanac ; After n vacation of 3'-j years I have decided to resume writ ing a personal column which 1 hope some Ncws-Kevicw read ers will find entertaining and, on rare occasions, informative: My first experience with col umn writing was on a small daily in South Dakota in 1040 and '47. It was solely a sports column and that's where the title 1 still use originated. Said title, obviously, ha: more senti mental than descriptive value For 12 years ' ending In I8601 the column was a regular feature of Weeklies we opera ted in Minnesota and S o u t li Dakota and it is not anticipated that it will appear here with any greater frequency. ' Popular descriptions of a column Ineludt: A plan for tht writer to show off his Ignorance; an outlet for axe grinding; an area In which to print trivia not worthy of regular news treatment and other even less complimen tary definitions. These writ ings may prove to be a little of all. One of the reasons I didn't start sooner is a feeling that 1 wasn't familiar cnouRh with the community and its people. Now 1 feel (after 16 months) that we're real Iloschurgites and Oregonians and hope I can comment without offense and without showing too obviously that we are just transplanted newcomers. Our family has always en joyed birds. We like to watcli them, to try to identify strange ones and to feed some of them . But now I'm mad at robins. This fall the pyracantha against our back fence resumed tiieir glory of thousands of bright red berries following near fatal damaS'j of two win tcrs ago. During every daylight meal we have enjoyed the brilliant1 colors of these plants until about a week ago, that is, Thai's when the robins found them. ' . ' For two or three days the lit tie feathered "friends" de scended on the bushes like lo custs and now the berries are all gone and so are the robins. Maybe this it like rasp berry patch I once had. The only way we could solve the problem of blackbirds In it was to raise enough for the birds and us both. IIPI Hysteria Won't tMJ Fix Gun Worry Assassination Tops News Stories Of '63 I By United Press International Today is Saturday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 1063 with 10 to lollow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The evening stars arc Jupiter Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1G20, the Pilgrims set foot for the first time on American soil at Plymouth, Mass. In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of six ,,'nnlr i lunri.AE hnimi itfunlar nt-nflh,,t tl,n ctnln r.f Nitunrla 1 CHnilUII. 1 IU WOlllclIl 111 lll'W In . 1014, horse racing was! banned In the. United States for By ROBERT C. RUARK Before we go entirely hysteri cal about guns, because Mr. Kennedy was shot by one, let us slightly calm down and con- sider that some of the most effective weapons ever made were produced by the scientific ally ignorant people of Kenya, called Mau Mau, who confect ed them froni door bolts and strips of rubber tire to provide the action. A blowgun from as close a range as that enjoyed - Dy a drunk fan in Philadelphia, who ran up to the late President at the Army-Navy game last year would be just as effective as the duration of World War II In 1953, ex-Premier Mossa degh of Iran was convicted of attempting to foment and lead i) revolt against the Shah. A thought for the day It is written in the New Testament according to St. John: "In my Father's house there are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." One of the things that final ly got mo down to the type writer was that I have wanted to comment for more than a year on how pretty Rose- burg bus drivers arc. I'm re ferring, particularly, to the women. Both those who drivo school buses and those who drivo city buses. The impending loss of city hus service and resultant re tirement from regilur schedules of the Evergreen drivers had hurried me into writing before I cannot include them in the category. Anyway it's a real treat to see these nice looking gals driving the buses and here Is just one more area where Hose burg does n I have to take a bark seat to any other com munity. To stop herd of charging elephants Take away their credit cards. Can't close this first effort without a figurative bouquet of roses (what else in Rosohurg) to Bob Robins and the higli school choir they're great! I've had the good fortune to hear them four times since coming to Koseburg and my recommendation for those who like vocal music is Hear them every chance you get! Well, we got through this first one o.k. Wasn't too sure I could do it and you probably weren't cither. From now on your comments and suggestions for material suitable to this sp,ice will be deeply appreciated. So 'til next week then or whenever another gels writ ten, Merry Christmas! College Housing Loan Due George Fox Code WASHINGTON (I'PI) The Community Facilities Adminis (ration Friday approved a SilSU, 000 college housing loan to George Fox College of Newborn Ore. The money will be used for construction of a residence building to houso 52 men and 52 women students, plus an aildl tion to the College t'nion build ing that will provide kitchon and dining facilities for about 228 students and 36 faculty members. The announcement was made by Sens. Taurine Ncuberger anu vtflyne Morse, D-Ore. 3 Promotions Told For State Policemen SALEM (UP1) Three promo tions were announced Friday by the State Police. All will be come effective Jan. 1. Byron W. HnzcMon and Jack II. licurss both go from lieute nant to captain. W. II. Frecle was promoted from private first class to corporal. llazolton will he with the headquarters staff in charge of personnel, training and inspec tion. He joined the State Po lice in 194(1. Bearss, who joined the de partment in 1939, will remain head of the arson squad. Frecle is in the identification and investigation bureau. , Daily Bible Reading By Koseburg Ministerial Association York who blasted off'the flash1 bulb in the , President's fane could have - slain - him with .ii slingshot. ,. : 1 ' We had a slight revolution tlie other day in Dahomey, where they knocked off a cou pie of demonstrators with bows and arrows. Bombs also get made in basements and plant ed in churches.. Whether a gun is purchased by mail order, bought from the local hardware" store, hand wrought in the rumpus room, or stolen from a cop is not apt to disinvent an old Chinese (lis covery, gunpowder. Not even keeping the Reds out of the United Nations will disinvent gunpowder. Weapons Available As long as people want weap ons for Illegal means, they will find weapons. The hoods in Chicago were wearing machine guns as costume jewelry when machine guns for private use are really not legal. They put you under the jail in New York for carrying an unlicensed pis tol, but if you shook d o w n Brooklyn alone for weapons with the serials filed off you could finance the war in Vict Nam. I own a power of lethal ma chinery. including one British rifle which can knock off a gnat's neck at 500 yards. I keep! no guns at home no pistol in tlie drawer, no protection against burglars but only be cause I don t think weapons should lie left lying around for children and dogs and hystcri- I wives and exuberant drunks to pervert their basic purpose That is possibly because 1 have shot enough elephants and tigers and lions and bobwhitel quail to realize that a gun is dangerous weapon whose prime purpose is to kill things or people. Guns Important We built America with guns, ranging back from tlie boys at Concord and the shot heard around the world. We have a healthy economy based on hunt ing. The late President Ken nedy tried to push a new law in 1958 to ban the import of foreign-war surplus guns, but only to protect our own domes tic gunsmiths. Tlie foreign guns, he said, were "spoiling the do mestic market." His political anger was not against firearms It' was .against an invasion of a-3p!al:;iiMlustry. l-.,?t-ti,M,:ii in ti.'n u t i .inii i, iv u.iio in bun wuiiu, in cluding Sen., Tommy Dodd's in troduced legislation, will n o t hamper tlie transfer of weapons from the good guys to the bad guys if tlie Dad guys want the weapons. Denying mail - order guns to kids under 18 is fine in theory, and filing an affida vit against transfer to minors, juvenile delinquents, and men tal defectives is equally fine. It has only one' flaw.' It's un enforceable. . ' The knowledge' of guns, and the handling of guns, is basical ly a good thing for a kid to grow up with. Particularly, the respect for dangerous weapons is a valuable portion to the rais ing of a youngun. This knowl edge and respect comes in cs pecially handy in something Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25 1 The Holy Bible tells us that there are tome things in it which are "hard to under stand." (2 Peter 3:16) Just so. Uodly and learned men have often acknowledged that there are passages in the Bihlc which they did not understand. Josenh did not understand and was filled with doubt and fear when he learned that his be trothed Mary was with child and before they came together. It was the custom ufter be trothal for the couple to live apart for the period of one year before consumatinj the pact by marriage. II was also the cus tom that a divorce could be concluded, with Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to do. But, as he considered this, an angel of the Uird appeared to him in dream saying. "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife, but knew her not until she hud born a son: and he called his nam? "Jesus." Doubt and fear are two of man's most serious problems but if we will permit Cm! to direct us in all things our doubts and fears can and will he re moved. If in these days, we arc un certain of mind and tense with anxiety, then our religion is not doing for us what it ought to do. "Said the robin to the spar row. I should really like to know Why these anxious human be ings Hush about and worry so?" "Said the sparrow to the rwh in. "Friend, I think that it must l)e That they have no Heavenly Father Such as cares for ou and me.' " 1 John O. Jertson, Layman Faith Lutheran Church Ruseburg like a war, or even the kind of advisory operation we are running all over the world. Ironically, the bill that Mr. Ken nedy introduced was chopped down to the one basic that the prohibition of imported weapons should apply only to the coun tries which received them un der a military aid program. Hysteria Noted It is natural that a certain amount of hysterical "something must be done should apply to (lie possessions of weaponry in America as a result of the President's murder, and the murder of his assassin. It would also apply to bows and arrows, blowguns or booby-trapped cig ars if they had, been the agents oi Destruction. ; In this Instance; if similar hysteria should apply.. you had better abolish the Marine .Corps because that is where the Pres ident's assassin learned to shoot a rifle. In the meantime, it seems a touch silly to make rifle" and "pistol" -and "gun dirty words. For a start it would wreck half the nation's television shows and would create havoc in the late Presi dent's home state, Massachu setts, which just happens to house die firearms manufactur ers named Savage, Iver-John-son, Nobel Manufacturing Co., Harrington and Richardson, and, bless my soul, old Smith and Wesson. Those were the peo ple President Kennedy intro duced his bill for when he was a junior senator in 1958. (Copyrl.. 1963 by UnltM Fea. Synd., Inc.) (See page 5.) NEW YORK (CPU The as sassination of President Kenne dy one of the top stories of the century completely dom inated a news year that ranked highest in drama and import of any year since World War 11. That was the consensus of ed itors who selected the "ten big gest news stories of 1963" com piled by United Press Interna tional. , . The integration story in the, U. S. A. was the overwhelming choice for second place on the list, announced Wednesday night. The annual poll of editors represents hundreds of L'PI sub scribers in the United States and Canada. ' - The Pope John XXIII-Pope Paul VI story and the Gordon Cooper- space flight contested closely for third place, me papal dcath-and-succession took third, Cooper fourth. ' Here is the ,1963 list: 1. Kennedy assassins' ion. 2. Integration, U.S.A. - 3. John XXIII dies, Paul VL succeeds. 4. Cooper space flight. 5. U.S.A. - Britain - Russian nuclear ban. B. Assassination of Premier Diem and brother in Viet Nam. 7. Atomic submarine Thresher lost. 8. Profumo sex scandal in Britain. 9. Supreme Court rules against reciting Lord s Prayer . in schools. 10. Fischer quintuplets. The ban by the major powers on nuclear testing in the air held steady in fifth place throughout the balloting. Fairly close to the quintup lets of Aberdeen, S. C, as run- ners-up but not quite big enough to make the list, were two stor ies of widely dissimilar news import:. The 14-day ordeal and rescue of two buried coal min ers at Shcppton, Pa.; and the widening split between Red Chi na and Russia. Those two finished in a vir tual tie for the 11th spot. Others close in the honorable mention list were De Gaulle's veto of o! British membership in the European Common Market, and the Russian launching of "twin astronauts, one a woman. ' Many editors remarked that 1963 seemed the newsiest year since the war. Some said the list might have better included the 15, or perhaps 20, "biggest." UPI submitted ballots con taining 32 major events of the year for the consideration of&d iters. They usually -base 'their' judgments on significance, pub lie impact, shock value, human interest, readability, and the amo.int of space the story oc cupied in the newspapers. The "ten biggest news stories of. 1963" list as voted by edi tors of UPI subscribers in Eur ope: ' 1. Kennedy assassination. 2. Pope John-Pope Paul. 3. Nuclear test ban treaty. 4. The Profumo affair. ' 5. French veto of British Coin mon Market entry. 6. The German mine disaster and rescues. 7. Vaiont Dam collapse kills thousands. 8. and 9. (tie) ' Adenauer re signs, Erhard takes over; and Skopje earthquake. . 10. Macmillan resigns;' Lo r d Home takes over. Edged by narrow margins were the first woman in space, Kennedy's European tour. Diem assassination, Britain's train robbery. Soviet grain purchas es. Integration in the U.S.A. didn't place. 12 avi5 Gone J3i Taken from the files of . the News Review 40 YEARS AGO - Dee. 21, 1923 '"' For the purpose of ; raising money toward the erection of a community house for the Gar- ( den Valley district and also to stimulate the market for apples by showing some of the delici ous foods that may be prepared trom them, the Garden Valley Improvement Club, an organiza tion of ladies of that section, will hold a sale of apple prod ucts and other cooked food at Everybody's Exchange on Sat urday. The delicious viands will no doubt be quickly purchased. 25 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1938 A test by the Riddle Valley Cannery ' to determine types of dried prunes most suitable for canning will be made starling Dec. 27 and running through the month of January, 1. A. Smith, manager, announced today. Mr. Smith recently started canning dried prunes and found ready sale for this product, it is reported. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 21, 1953 ': Rosohurg's first allocation of ' firsl.class (three-cent) mail was received 'by .the local post, of-, , '. flc6-i;rditt IPortiand 1 today!; ' liyV,;;. airplane. This was the first day-' of an experiment period from ' Dec. 21 lo Jan. U to speed up ' tlie mail during tlie Christmas rush. The Civil Aeronautics 'Au thority has granted permission to West Coast Airlines to trans port the mail insofar as space permits to all cities served by the airline. In The Day's Hews- By FRANK JENKINS A while back an assistant professor of forest products at Oregon Stale University who was making a talk to the Cor vallis Chamber of Commerce re marked the Oregon's trees may some day become so valuable CHEMICALLY that it may be uneconomical to use them fur anything so ordinary as lum ber. He added that a breakthrough in any one of the fields now being explored could mean a major industrial development. A rebus is the representa tion of a word or a part of a word by a picture of a thing with a similar name. .Several may be combined lo make a phrase or sentence. Complex rebuses combine picture, letters and numbers, and may be used for communi cation, as in instructing illit erates, or as ptiiiles lo amuse. C tatrlM4 lottuke Too optimistic? The answer is NO. There's paer. Paper is made out of trees. There was a long time when we thought that pa per was useful only to write on or print on or to wrap things up with. Now we're learning that almost anything ran be made nut of paper. Clothes, for example. They're now making disposable shirts for men and disposable house dresses for women out of pa per wear "em until they are rumpled and soiled and then crumple 'em up and use 'ein for kindling to start a fire in the fireplace. They're not on the market yet. but the experimental sam ples look surprisingly practical. Rut even more amaiing by products arc looming on t h e horizon. Some stuff, for exam pie. with a long scientific name that is called DMSO for short II showed up first in the expert mental laboratories of the Crown Zcllcrbach Corporation. Among oilier things, it is an excellent antifreeze.' In this ca pacity, it came to the attention of Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Oregon Medical School. He was looking for a way to supercool human organs such as kidneys and hearts without freezing them. What he wanted was an effici ent way of STORING them, so that they could be used as HE I LALEMEiN IS like spare parts of an automobile. He and his assistant research ers have been experimenting with animal organs, which they have been able to supercool for long periods of time and then put them back into the animals so that they work and function well. One female dog had a kid ney removed experimentally. It was later replaced with a kid ney that had been tinder stor age. The experiment worked so well that the dog later gave birth to a healthy litter of puppies. On Ihe less fabulous side. D.MSO appears to have highly interesting possibilities as a pain reliever, a tranquilizer, an anti-inflammatory treatment for burns and a wide range of other medical uses. All this, remember, come: from TREE and in Oregon tree at that. It all goes to con firm that the possibilities of pa per plant waste which in the past has been a frightful nuis ance. contaminating our streams, killing the fish and generally raising Old Ned with our water supply are prac tically limitless. "r 1221 I J3 Good Wishes Christmas Tis the season when we pause to say "Thanks" to you, our friends, for our pleasant association during this past year. Merry Christmas! DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE it mm BANK KOSEBURS . OAKLAND . . SUTHERUN
