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'du "It's a Great Idea But Don't Clip MY Babyl" Reader Opinions Page 4 The News-Review MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1964 Small Business Still Has A Future With the failure of small lumber operations, nmall stores and other small businesses in the face of fierce competition from bigger companies, the thought is often expressed in , Douglas County that the economy ; will soon be one made up completely of giants. The continuing series of success stories being unveiled in the Payroll Development committee's "Industry of the Month" is a strong indication small business is far from dead. This idea of a growing future is also shared by Dr. Carl H. Madden, ' new director of economic research ' for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. He sees big opportunities and big changes for American small business in the next quarter century. The fashionable conclusion of most experts is that small business is doomed as unable to survive compe tition with the bigs. So it is reassur ing to find one economist who thinks small business has a bright future for the long haul. Madden is a six-foot-four "e g g head" with three degrees from the University of Virginia. He has taught economics at Rutgers, NYU, Cor nell and Lehigh. He comes to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce most of whose mem bers are small and medium-s i z e d businessmen with broad experience as a business consultant and in gov ernment. For six years he was with Feder al Reserve in New York. In 1962 he was consultant to the Treasury in Washington. Last year he was staff economist for the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. Here he got his special feel for small business, work ing with Senators John Sparkman, D- Ala., and William Proxmire, D-Wis. The latter is writing a book on small business which will be published early in 1964. Madden doesn't make precise pre dictions on the outlook for small busi ness, even in the near 1970s, be cause, he says, the dominant factor is going to be change. It is the small business which can accommodate to change that will stay in business and succeed. One significant development he points to is the establishment of in dustrial parks in which there is a complex of small businesses. Each may begin with a doctor of philoso phy and a master of business admin istration. They grow from there, with brains as their principal asset. Boston has such a center. There are others around the space centers at Cape Kennedy and Houston. Men lo Park, Calif., is world-famous. And the North Carolina University Tri angle, with its three great schools, has a brilliant future. More small businessmen should be college educated, Madden believes. A total of 275 business schools grant de grees and 10 offer graduate courses. They have never concentrated on the problems of small business, but they are now beginning services to keep in touch with their alumni and help them with their problems in ad justing to change. The fertility of American private small business is one of its greatest elements of strength, Madden be lieves. There were more than 4.75 million American business establishments in 1962, excluding farms and profession al offices. Some 430,000 new business es were created that year, with 387, 000 discontinuances, for a net gain of 43,000. THE LIGHTER SIDE: Nightwatchman Career Likely The Almanac Kenya s Aiu Comes Trouble To Roost By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)-Thosc of us who spend our time wor rying about tho younger genor- New Power Tool Makes Mechanic Out Of Spaceman J WASHINGTON (UPI)-A new power tool litis been designed so an astronaut can do repair or assembly jobs in space with out putting himself Into a spin. The 8-pound, bnttery-driven tool was developed for the air force by the Mnrtin Co. and Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. of Baltimore. Its designers believe it is the forerunner of tools which man may use some day to assemble whole cities in space. Ordinary tools present diffi Acs under conditions of weight lessness encountered by space travelers. If an astronaut work ing outside his spacecraft should try to turn a nut with an ordinary wrench or portable power tool ho would go into a snln himself. ' What is needed In spaco is a tool with "zero reaction." This hieans u tool In which a reac live torque the twisting force has been eliminated. This is what the two Baltimore com panics have coma close to do Inc. The engineering tricks used to perfect the tool arc many and complicated. A duel one, now ever, was development of an et ficient motor in which both the motor and case rotate on ball bearings within the tool handle. By a spring loading mechan ism, this energy is transferred In (tin working end of the tool ation found something to make us feel better this week. In San Diego, Calif., a teen agor set a low record of sorts by going without sleep for more than 260 hours. Any generation that can pro duce a champion like that can't be all bad. I predict a great future for that boy, particularly if he be comes a nightwatchman. His achievement, of course, docs not measure up to some of the accomplishments of my own generation, which produced several yo-yo and flagpole-sit ting champions. But it was im pressive nonetheless. If Hollywood is on the ball, some studio will sign him up for a movie called "I Was a Toon-Age Insomniac." In saluting the feat, however, I must express a fervent hope that it doesn t start a fad. Teen agers may not need to sleep, but parents need teen-agers to sleep. Scientists tell us that sleep Is a kind of Idling of tho body mechanism. Muscles relax, body temperature and blood pressure drop, and tho brain waves calm down. This must be true because all of those things happen to me when the teen-agers at my house are asleep In fact, there is nothing that refreshes a parent more than a sleeping teen-ager, The question of whether the human body actually needs as much sleep as most people give it has been under study for many years. Thomas Edison, who invented the incandescent lamp, had a theory that sleep was largely a habit inherited from our cave dwelling anccs.nrs, who didn't have anything better to do. lie speculated that the advent of the electric light would Today is Monday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 1061 with 353 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The evening stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today include the .author of "Rags to Riches" novels, Horatio Alger, in 1834. On this day in history: In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died in a New York City nospitai. In 1877, a literary critic for the New York Times termed Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" something "uni.eccssarily sinister." In 1963, President Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland was as sassinated by insurgents in front of the U.S. Embassy in Lome. W - DEAR ABBY many women object to a man growing a beard? I am sure that the good Lord didn't put hair on the faces of men so that a razor company could sponsor boxing matches. And you lino right up alongside the rest of the women and say, "If the heard scratches scratch him I" Men parted with thoir beards about the same time women were given the right to vote and permitted to drive au tomobiles (you can do neither intelligently) but knowing how you women stick together I'll bet ten bucks this never sees print. TED W DEAR TED: You lotel Now itnd that ten bucks to th Can ctr Socitty. lem, according to the Nairobi papers I receive daily. So many benefits are being awarded to the old hard-core Mau Mau that they are having to screen the people who pretend to be Mau Mau! Three pages of a recent paper were devoted to pictures of the old murderers who have now achieved both amnesty and a fresh status symbol of nobili ty. It is suggested that the recent ly-sprung Mau Mau go to shoot the "shifta" gangs who come in from Ethiopia and Somalia this, recently, by a member of the Legislative Council. This is a story I would like to cover. since I knew the area and the people and how very bad they arc with guns they make out of rubber bands and stolen door bolts. What they are very good with are bows and arrows and spears and knives. (I got mixed up in wars be tween the Suks and the Karam ojong of Uganda one time, not to mention some spots of bother on the Somali border, not to mention a little Mau Mau chas ing many years ago, and these cats strictly am t from modern weaponry.) It s a hare one to write. There will be no peace in a country whose leaders dealt in murder arson, death and darkness, and whose neighbors feed on hatred. To describe the tribal hatred is impossible: our troubles in America arc not comparable. The New York Times de scribes the momentary incur sions as "raiders who steal cat- (In Unnf tunmnn tlirnnlnn In niljr uu u,.r ..m.ir r.as.au is mr,. Ipin.l rn pfs am lh By ROBERT C. RUARK On Christmas Day a nation which has only been technical ly free of brutal colonization since Dec. 12 declared a state o! emergency. This is Kenya, which is seeking responsible in vestment. The state of emergen cy is declared because bands of Somali raiders are sneaking across undefined borders, in places like the Beau Gesle fort town of Garissa. In the mean time you have the Ethiopians raiding murderously over the hills at Lake Rudolf, or sliding quietly into places like Porr or the llorr Valley in canoes. An odd sidebar comment is that the new Kenya news scrv ice presents the fact that the elephants arc eating up the ag riculture around the Tana Riv er area. There hasn't been any agriculture except a few banan as in that area since they open cd the prison pens and the ag- ricultural-cum-drainage projects went to pot. Some members of the prison pens arc now members of the new cabinet of newly-uhurued Kenya, and there is a big prob ear Women's Fault? -By ABIGAIL VANBUREN Tho Martin Co. said the main; prompt people to make uso of purpose was to maintain a light tool which an astronaut could operate with one hand In a "hostile environment" In space. SUPPORT FOR GEMINI I WASHINGTON (Ul'l) Ma tor rontrurlinn work ii coiny on at live tracking and com-as he envisioned. People began munication stations to Improvcislayin:! up at night all right. the night for fun and profit, and thus cause them to curtail their sack time. Didn't Work Out It could be, however, that Kdi son was only trying to sell more light bulbs. At any rate, It didn t pan out ground support facilities for Project Gemini, the next big tlep toward exploration of the inoon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)i said Friday improvement were being made at the Guyamas but Instead of getting by with less sleep they got to work late the next day. A year or so ago I read a story about a 63-year-old Span ish farmer who claimed he had never been to sleep in his en tire life. It sounded fishy to me. your Bits. If thty appoar ap prtciative, by all means con tinue. If your gifts art acknow ledged coofly, or not at all discontinue the practice. DEAR ABBY: I've never seen a problem like ours in your column, and hope you can help us. Three years ago my hus band accidentally hit a boy on a bicycle, and the boy was kill ed instantly. It was a foggy night, the boy darted out in DEAR ABBY: Your answer to "NOT MOVING" gives me the Impression that you arc plain stupid. I agree with the letter, NOT with your answer I have 30 minutes for lunch and I don't aim to spend it moving around so that people can sit together at a lunch counter. I also refuse to move. Why should I? I've never asked anybody to move for me. I'll bet you would stand in line at a grocery check-out with 6 or 7 people who each had about $15 worth of groceries, and you'd let someone ahead of you with a loaf of bread and a iwund of butter. I wouldn't but I think you arc stupid enough to. Yours truly, HOMER IN SOUTH GATE Parr-Time Governor Charge Hits Hatfield To The Editor: By this notice to the taxpay ers and voters, I should like to ask this question: Did the peo pie of Oregon at the last gen eral election elect a governor or a "traveling ambassador; In order for us to maintain our proper position in national af fairs do we need a Governor or a "Traveling Ambassador?" Who benefits most from these tiring trips around the country? Who pays for what? I think most of all benefit of the trips is for Gov. Hatfield and I should like to make this point clear to all concerned. Does Oregon need a full-time governor? If we do not, perhaps we should amend our Constitu tion making it possible to fill our governor office with a part time official. That is what we have now. This seems foolish doesn't it and yet isn't this the type of Governor we have now? - John C. Groat 1660 N. W. Mulholland Drive s Roseburg, Oregon ever been touched with the slightest shadow of moral scan dal or lack of integrity. All too long both ; arties and government policies have been dominated by those behind the scene to the great detriment of our country as well as our un fortunate fiscal condition. As a result, the United States has been loaded with the huge debt Nicolai Lenin said would be built to destroy the Republic. More than two-thirds of that debt was created by the law less giveaway of our resources under the heading of foreign aid. Now our own fiscal condition is immeasurably worse than that of almost any other na tion. That giveaway since Len in made his statement amounts now to $207,434,234,867.00, all given away without a shadow of constitutional right to lend or give away anything to anyone. at home or abroad. It is long past time for a real change! Hubert H. Heath 4626 N. Stephens St. Roseburg, Ore. GOP Candidate Wanted With Exceptional Merit To The Editor: Having had some 70 years as a member of the Republican Party, I'd like very much to see the GOP nominate for president a man of the high mental cal ibre and moral integrity of a Madison, Lincoln or a Garfield before I cross the divide. I'd like to see elected a man who would think it an honor to be President of this earth's greatest nation, having no inter est in gahvanting over the earth or nosing into the inter nal affairs of other nations; one content to stay in the White House and just be a good presi dent. We have such men, but they are getting no attention. Were cither Sen. Karl E. Mundt 'or Sen. John J. Wil liams nominated, either would bring millions of voters to the whom poor Prince Philip re fused to meet when they came in for the celebration?) Or do we just consider that a country which has a crisis a couple of weeks after independ ence might possibly be in thcl ,e who have not bcen Y.1UI1B , ": vol ne hecause no real cho ce has been allowed in the past 30 years of planned, bipartisan of its leaders are murderers, thugs, or just plain thieves? (Copyrl., 1963 by Untied Fea. Svnd., Inc.l 3n 2)aJ DEAR HOMER: You sure ers. The Times does not men tion that a flock of Gelubha from Ethiopia invaded an old fishing hole of mine at Rudolf and knocked oft a double bak er's dozen at North Horr the other day or that the young men of the Gelubba have al ways come down like the Assy rian to blood their seasonal spears at North and South Horr, or at the island of Porr. The Times possibly wouldn t know about the tribal warfare on the Kenya-Uganda border and neither would the new rul ers of Kenya but the Suks raid the Karamojong with the monotonous regularity of Har lem gangs invading each oth er's turf. They have done so for years. I record 256 (correct) wars from the police files of less than five years ago. The Times has possibly nev or ducked a shower of arrows and old tin spears and peculiar bullets from the Meru raiding down onto the Turkana. the Merillc, the Samburu, and, of course, from the alien Somalis in the Northern Frontier of Ken ya. But 1 hunted elephant and 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1924 The executive committee in charge of the drive in Roseburg for the relief of German chil dren met last night to consider plans for the campaign. It was shown that the case is one of real charity, and regardless of the feeling against Germany, that little children are slowly starving because of lack of nourishment. A committee composed of B. L. Eddy, chairman, Mayor Rice, B. W. Strong, A. C. Marsters A. J. Hochradcl, Judge George Quinc, and O. C. Baker, has agreed to take charge of the relief drive. County Roadmaster Floyd Frear is leaving tomorrow for Mill Creek on the Roseburg- Recdsport highway to look over the site of the proposed bridge at that point with the market road engineer. The county court hopes to build the Mill Creek bridge during the com ing summer. The bridge will have a 200 foot span, and will cost between $15,000 and $25, 000. The court has decided to Attorney General Says He Only Recommended To The Editor: A letter in your Reader Opin ion column, discussing the Boe-ing-Boardman transaction, indi cated that the attorney general t had declared unconstitutional the recently passed law (then House Bill 1014) authorizing the use of monies in the State Vet erans' Bond Sinking Fund' to purchase the lands to be leased to the Boeing Co. for 77 years at a very nominal rental. Actually our opinion merely stated that a "grave question exists as to the constitution ality of the bill" in view of Ar ticle I, 20, Oregon Constitution, which provides: No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or immun ities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." We recommended submitting to the voters at the next elec tion a constitutional amend ment to allow use of stale funds to encourage industrial develop ment by private companies as has been done in other states. This suggestion, however, was not approved by the Legislative Assembly. Robert Y. Thornton Attorney General For Oregon State Capitol Salem, Ore. mn4 tnaJ 553 v.nti irvi(& misgovern rr.cnt. The Morning Oregonian seems to feel that the marital delin quencies of Rockefeller are his personal affair. But I m dis posed to think a man who would break up two families of chil dren because he wanted another man's wife might have no more regard for the sacredncss of a public trust tnan for the sacred ness of the marriage state and its moral obligations. The press continues to refer to Gov. Romney as a possible candidate. But Mr. Romney, as fine a man as he seems to be, is of alien ' birth and cannot qualify for the office under the provisions of our Constitution. Were he to be elected, his Democratic opponent would take the office by default. For the GOP to nominate Rockefeller would be equivalent to placing the seal of its ap proval on the disregard of mor al ma ters, ine ellect on our Land's End . oromontorv youtn in formative years could of Cornwall, is the western. uc KAMi-m-u iu ue uoiaiiuu!.. most pomt 0f England. 873 Both Sen. Mundl and Sen. Wil- miles from .John o' Groats, i. a. us inn tican litmus mi lne souiiiernmost tip. Lands their long years of public scry- End is a granite headland icc- ! pierced by a natural arch. In an age when scandals and Dangerous reefs lie off the moral delinquencies have be-i point, and a submersed for. come almost the order of thoiest indicates changes in the day, neither of these men has'sea level. lllLjEi' front of the car, and my hus- have me pegged. Buddy. I fre-l'peonlo there for years, on and t.n.. ...... .1 .1.. i -i i :r.. 1 . . band was not exceeding the speed limit, so no charges were brought against him. He was so heartsick he lost 30 pounds. Our problem is: Every Christ- mas since that happened wo have sent the boy's family a lovely basket of fruit and a large wreath of flowers for the boy's grave. I have the feeling that perhaps we shouldn't do this because it reminds them quantly let someone ahead of me with a loaf of breed and a pound of butter. And I'm stupid enough to enjoy It. I Station on Ihf West Coast o'al,hr8dor,," Z"rt "Withal their son is dead and my Mexico: the John F. Kennedy to have verified It It was reported that Ihe doc- bpace r light Center in Honda ,orj him Natives and the Bermuda and Canary Island 8U ,,ie to lmllce ,,urnbcr. stations in the Atlantic. A new Ull, tn d(K.,n., , much. station also it being built at! Th inn ir.t unM h in ... an isolated desert spot on thc;whciher he could slay awakcius nrsi .op oi Australia near during an old movie on televi Canarvon. l5in. husband is still living. We sure ly don't want to cause them any more heartaches in the fu ture. Can you or someone who LBJ's Spending Cuts Said Deeper Than JFK Planned SEATTLE (UPD- President Johnson is making deeper cuts in government spending than hail hnnn nl.nnnH l, Il. tn a power ferry at Scotts- p" - " ':"'"" '"; M. Jackson said in a speech here. Jackson, addressing the Al lied Daily Newspapers of Wash ington at the association's an- burg at the present, as there arc not sufficient funds avail able to complete a bridge at that point. 25 YEARS ACO Jan. 13. 1939 Plans for celebration of the mial winter meeting, lightly 80th anniversary of the found lol(1 th Eroup of newspaper ing of Philctarian Lodge. No. 8,!men. inc government unaliy and Lodge, currently ambas sador to Vict Nam, carried the GOP banner against the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in 1960. On trade, Jackson said he much opposed the sale of Amer ican wheat to Russia and con cluded that the United States , played the role of "poor Yankee traders" in making a deal with the Soviets. "If we had to send wheat to Russia at all," he said, "I IOOF. were made at the lodge!' laKing seriously your editon- mccting last night. The Rosc-ia's urging economy in govern-l burg lodge was founded in 1859mcnt. and at the meeting last night, "President Kennedy had plan- J. E. Pickens was named tolned to make cuts in fedcralr head a committee which will:socndine." he said, "hut Jnhn. arrange the celebration. VictorSon is making deeper cuts. At Ic8c commodity. To us, it s a J. Micelli. noble grand made least, that is mv morcssion."illtauacne- 'aid. the selection. At last night's Jackson, a Democrat, is the meeting, G. C. Campbell and state's junior senator in Con- Glenn B. Beach were accepted jgrcss and is up for rc-clectioni Into membership. ! this year. would have preferred to see us give the wheat in exchange for an important, basic political concession in the cold war," he added. 'To Russia, wheal is a stra- Jackson said the nation can not travel the routes advocated by cither the extreme left or radical right groups. But, he off, and I never saw a politician yet who wasn't behind wire in the area of Hoi a The thing 1 would really like to pursue, now, in the Interest DEAR ABBY: Don't tell me there is nothing to dreams. My husband tells the truth more times when he's sleeping than he does awake. One night he did a lot of talking in his sleep. When he woke up I ajked him about it. He laughed It off, say ing ne duini know what was! I do think that the Prcsident a,d(lcd- ,ne natin should realize Vivien Leigh, the voung Ens- is determined that cuts can bethat R"ssia has not changed its lish actress who will play thejmade." he said. "I believe heiobjellvc ' burying the free part of the southern lass, Scar-Us testing, the people to sec ifjw1r'u lett O'Hara, in the screenlthey arc willing to go along.) We arc too inclined to be rtramntiTation nf "r.one With And he is demonstrates howi,leve ,nat every time Mr. of history, is just what happens Th0 Wind," was "terribly ncr-dependent we have become on Khrushchev blows a warm wind with a new nation which has avolls- lway but grateful for'government spending. This is a-from tnc north we're going to brand-new crisis less than iMni; assigned the role. ichallenae to our enterprise svs-!nave Peace, he said. month from Its independence? Who buys the announced state of emergency, which has al ways bcen a state of emergen cy? Us? Do we send the United Na- alking about. In a few months "0"? troops (from where, Gha- ik.r. -ill K .k.i ' " pruirri "i nr. ncn- I ai 10 YEARS AGO Item to absorb the adjustments." Jackson said the United States Jen. 13, 1954 ! On matters of politics, Jack-nas maintained peace by main- The Douglas County employ-' son said he doubts if cither ScnJ,aimnf! military superiority and mcnt picture was still gloomy Barry Goldwater- of Arizona or must continue not only to have in December, but the signs for New York Gov. Nelson Rocke-;s,renK,h equal to Russia. 's but the future are brightening as feller will become the Repub-is,renl!,h 'superior to Russia. 1954 gets under way. reports lican presidential nominee. Manager George T. Foster of "While I hesitate to step into i .-in K n..i i .k.. na.- o proicci m slid he talks In hit Wn !Jan ,rom thc Ethiopians and the Roseburg office of the State the other fellow s house... it has been through this dvisej0,hrrwj!tei when it comes to' De !K,m,lls ' forbid Unemployment Compensation looks as if the Republican nom- telling the truth, he would ballL "'Xl "L ' ' w ' !. - i . "1"'" w,"..'0 e,in?r ""V" v.. uu irimr uu- um , uiiiait's air , uvi tt-uv uigncr ,Mon or ncnrv laoot Lodge. !Mau Man sweats who just gave!than during the same Decern- thc senator said. DREAMER'S MATEjup their handmade guns, andjber 1952. j Former Vice President Nixon STUMPEDizero. DEAR STUMPED: You didn't GOOD A IMPROVING BUSINESS LOCATION Nf unttr DUmane Llka ne .( Ranat . Mttrwtlrto. in- an strt. an ir m Will CMar. Ml ,n4 balW (a Ml ar coatrtar im. puan 1U-M41 WMfc fn.
