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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.
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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.
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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
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KOSEBURS . OAKLAND . . SUTHERUN