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1 6 The Editor's Corner By Charles V, Stanton "Mind If I Look Over Your Should or i a a a e Page 4 The Newt-Review FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1964 Olaila Feasibility Report Draws Nearer The "moment of truth" is getting closer on Olullu Dam. By the end of the month, the final feasibility report will be completed at Salem and sent on to the Boise, Idaho, regional office of the Bureau of Reclamation. This step is a long way behind the original schedules indicated by the Bureau, but with the tremendous number' of specific studies which jiave been made, it's not surprising it should be off a year or two in es timates. One ef the main reasons for what appears to be long delays is the fac tor of benefits. Since 1957 when the Bureau first began poking around at the Olaila Creek site, Congress has at intervals added other factors which can be counted as benefits. This meant that federal or state agencies of specialists had to make studied so these benefits could be in cluded in the final report. . J n those six years, Congress has decided fish and wildlife, industrial and municipal water supply, recrea tion and water quality control (pol lution abatement) could be included iis benefits. . ' : ' , This called for extra studies by the state Game Department, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Park Service and .U. S. Public Health Service. All these meant extra time was needed.'' ' But we have a feeling the time was well spent. Judging from reports at the Bureau office in Salem, all the factors involved have added tip to a highly feasible cost-benefit ratio. John Mangan, area engineer for the Bureau, left little doubt about the re-. port being favorable when he said, this week at Canyonville, he has "ev ery reason to believe it is a good project and will be glad to support it in Congress.." The fact the Congress acted in add ing other factors for consideration of the report looks so' favorable. When the dam was originally considered,, the only benefits possible were hy droelectric (of which there are ap parently no possibilities) , flood con trol and irrigation. On just flood con trol and irrigation, it was doubtful that yearly benefits would match yearly costs. The additional benefits approved by Congress also give a brighter hue to the other three dams being consid ered in the county. Without them, the Tiller damsite would probably have been discarded long ago. As it is, this key dam in the proposed system is gaining favor to the point it might be built of concrete and include an electric power generating facility. (All the other dams will be earth fill.) While on the subject of benefits, we can't stress enoligh the need for' farmers and other possible irrigators in the areas of all four dams to let the county Water Resources Survey office know if they, are interested, in receiving irrigation water. This indi cation from landowners 'doesn't bind . them, but it is considered in deter mining possible benefits. The more who indicate a desire for irrigation water, the higher the benefits for ir rigation will be andthe better the possibilities of having a favorable to tal cost-benefit ratio. If, after the . studies are over, those who indicated a desire for irrigation water don't like the costs they would have to pay, they will not be held to, thejr original estimate of land to be irrii gated. But the important first step is getting a good cost-benefit ratio, so all possible benefits can be figur ed in. .-. ; The people of the county certainly deserve high praise for their unflag ging interest in ! the projects being considered, despite what appears to be a long, drawn-out series of stud ies. It is this great interest which has kept the federal and state iigen-, cies working with vigor in complet- ing the studies. This interest will become more im portant in the months to come be cause Congress, which is highly sen sitive to the desires of the people it represents, will be making the final decision. We shouldn't miss any chance to put in a plug with our con gressional representatives. t THE LIGHTER SIDE: llf Tobacco Takes Edge Off ; By DICK WEST United Praia International WASHINGTON (UPI)-Every whero. you go these days you hear pcoplo talking about quit ting smoking. Which probably does them a lot of good. ; As long as their breath Is out bound, they can't very well in hale. ; ' , . I believe the' record will show, however, that the ratio of people who talk about quitting to those who actually do quit is roughly 49,280,521 In 13 and Mi. the Vi is y'r h'mbl' c'rr'sp'nd'nt. I quit smoking about 18 months ago but technically I do not represent a complete at) stulncr because I bavo not en tircly given up tobacco. Instead of smoking tobacco I now bitu it. There is a reason (or, this. People who stop smoking al most invariably find themselves eating a lot more. And the nan ers these days' arc filled' with warnings about the dangers ol ovcr-catirg. In offect, then, thev arc only trading one suspected health hatard for another. In order to realize any gain front the trans action, they must also find a way o lose weight. The most effectivo method of keeping one's weight down is ex ercise. Which brings up the danger of over exertion. I try to avoid these secondary risks by carrying around a few cigars in my pocket. At such times as I might or dinarily reach for a sweet, or start doing knee bends, which arc the usual substitutes for smoking, 1 bile the end off a cigar. Since 1 became a tobacco bit er, I have lost several pounds Also several friends You would be surprised at how intolerant some peoplo are. For smokers who would like to kick the habit but arc mi ablo to adjust to tobacco biting, I would recommend a method discovered by Bob Cross, a lo cal orchestra leader. At the age o.' 11, Cross began taking tuba lessons. One day. while his mother was out of the house, he tried to practice on the tuba and smoke a cigar at the same time. The idea was to see If he could fill the tuba witli smoke. After be recovered, he never smoked again. 'I can't guarantee that the Cross method will always work however. Some people who try II miKiit swear off the tuba in stend. Or they, might continue to do both. The music wouldn't be much but dig that crazy filler! The Almanac Today is Friday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 1!)4 with 349 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Those born today include American inventor, statesmen and author, fisnjumin Franklin, in 1706. On this day in history: ' In 1SUG, ii baby was born in the White House for the first time as the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Martha Jefferson Randolph gave birth to a son. In 1917, the United Slates pur chased the Virgin Islands from Denmark for S25 million. In 1944, Con. Dwigbt I). Ei senhower assumed command of the Allied liberation forces. In 1961, the deposed premier of the former Belgian Congo, Patrice Lumumba was murdered. V;WY S " Products Of 'Weed Tree' Offer Bis: Future Market The Weyerhaeuser Co.. one of the country's largest manufacturer!! of timber products, has been getting a great deal of publicity recently. It hit the news columns with an announcement of discovery of a new drug obtained from paper mill ef fluent. The drug, now undergoing extensive research, promises to join the "miracle drugs" of late years. Another recent announcement is that the company will spend some $30 million to triple the output of its plant at Springfield. As Weyerhaeuser is one of the principal owners of timber in Douglas County, we can expect that a large amount of our timber resource will be cut to feed the company's plants at North Bend and Springfield. Another item of great interest is found in a recent issue of Weyerhaeuser News, a trade magazine which features an article concering a new product, "Silva Silvaplex is being produced in Fresh Need Shuffle ed By GOP By ROBERT C. RUARK Lord knows I like Ike, and I love that dame named Maine. (Both might remember I had something to do with the suc cessful sloganeering.) But I do not see the general as anything more than a retir ed President and a retired Chiof of Staff. I certainly do not sec him as the doyen of the party to which he actually defected. Ike was a Democrat once, remember'? From what I read the line forms to Gettysburg, seeking Eisenhower approval for possi ble shots at the Republican nomination. 1 am prepared to vote for Art Buchwald, if not for Harold Stassen, but I do not think that the Eisenhower stamp is necessary for the run. Ike won a fine war. Ike kept us free from Acllai Stevenson. Ike hiadc golf worthy of Scot- ly Reston. Ike endowed us with a freedom from excessive Pres idential rhetoric. Ike kept Ma mie at home. Ike was is pretty damned wonderful, GOP "Short Of Peanuts" But I don't think we need him as a leader of the Young Turks. The Young Turks are having trouble enough already with Goldwatcr. Rockefeller and a lot of other people; named Wilbur, including one retread named Harold Stassen. Not since they prematurely exhum ed Alt Landon has the G.O.P. been so short of peanuts for the clcphanv. What the party does not need is an elder statesman. T o o many things people don't like are associated with the Republi- sion which was certainly not of his own making had the good grace to go fishing when he quit the executive office. Mr. Truman was a cantankerous fel low, but when he quit he basic ally quit. He just played citizen. and shot off his face when ill pleased him. In any case he didn't try to organize the Young Turks. As a matter of fact, I don't think Ike's trying to swing his: weight very much, cither. Cer-1 tainly he didn't swing it for Dick Nixon when Richard was aiming for the succession. It appears now that all of the peo ple are inferring that Ike's for cm instead of agin em. The communications on Stassen's la test bid are the kind of mime ographs you send out in re sponse to begging letters. Transfusion Needed The Republicans, it seems to me, are standing sorely in the1 need of complete transfusion. They don t need a Queen Moth er; what they need is a candi date. And they don't need a candidate who's, been whipped to his knees so often that dc feat is synonymous with his name. I think Dick Nixon would be a good President, but bis grinl is sour with defeat. Tom Dew ey would make a good President! (too. but his mouth is full of ashes. Stassen has only narrow ly missed being defeated for the office of dogcatcher. To an nounce his availability for the Presidential race, with the in fcrence of Eisenhower backing is about as ridiculous as if I stood for public office. I'd rather vote for Buchwald. At least he knows he's a comedian Mister General Eisenhower cannot, I think, nominate any of the aforementioned by en dorsement. And I don't think ho can do much for Mr. Rockefel-j ler or Mr. Goldwater either. There is loo much legend still fragrant with Ike's last admin istrative years, including t h e walkout at the summit. Farm System Suggested As an inexpert observer of the political scene for the past quarter century, I really think the Republicans ought to con cede the battle this trip, and spend the next four years build ing up a farm system, like the Yankees. Casey Stengel couldn't make the Mots go. Certainly Ei senhower can't make a Stassen or Dewey or Rockefeller or Nixon (he got beat in bis own slate for Governor) into a pen nant contender. What we need is a new coach, and a lot of hungry young peo ple who don't know defeat, haven't been unpopularry di-i voiced, and aren't members of a strict faith which has bylaws against Negroes and conflicting religious sects. We might even need people who are not lump ed with towns in Pennsylvania (who need Scranton?), or the Standard Oil Co., or even for mer Generals of the Army. What the Republicans need is a new deck, a fresh shuffle, and they might as well spend the next four years inspecting the cards. ICopyrl., TO3 by United Fea. Synd., Inc.) a forest plastics plant at Marsh field. Wis. While the magazine says the method is a refinement of a German process, it seems to me to be closely related to a product which appeared at the U.S. Forest Service experimen tal laboratory in Madison, Wis., during the Second World War. The Weyerhaeuser magazine does not detail the technique used in the manufacture of this new product. It does say, bow ever, that a great deal of re search was necessary before the German process could be used successfully on U.S. wood The material made by German manufacture from that coun try's wood could not be repro duced exactly with wood avail able in the United States. The wood finally selected is asnen. Aspen is one oi me country s so - called "weed trees." It is a rapidly growing wood. It is to be found in many parts of the country presently having very limited commer cial production of wood. Thus Aspen, as has been staled, is a "weed tree in mucn of the country. What about our own weed trees" Can we antici pate that in some near future date our madrone, scrub oak, jackpine and other such species will have greater value than the Douglas Fir upon which we presently base our economy? Cjone l$3ty 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1924 Dodge Brothers Adver- t:nn.nn, i'liri.n ...intn. inlnnrl. .... , , . 1 lioUilllIll. 1,1111 MllllUl uncial- Simplex promises to i become a I your desh.e for c,osed car warmth and protection, remem- can past, and almost all of it is A thought for the day Gen Dwight Eisenhower once said: "Humility must always be the connected to failure portion of any man who receives I air. Herbert . Hoover, who col acclaim earned in the blood of lected a cold wind not of his his followers and the sacrificcsiown blowing, when he assumed ihjus menus Irosponsihillly for the Depres- esource Group's Decision Blow To Sports Fisherman TEMPORARY DRESS HOUSTON (I'Plv - Cold weather and a broken-down heating plant Wednesday epa girls at Friendsuood High School an excuse to wear hi jeans and pedal, puslivrs, . Bill Powell, principal of the' school, which is under heavy Quaker influence, said the garb was all right until healing equipment arrived from New York. "I'm wearing pajamas under my clothes, myscjf," he lam. ' - - - r - , SAI.F.M (I P!) The Cover- nor's Committee on Natural Re ! sources indicated Thursday it would formally oppose an initia tive measure which would out law commercial salmon a n d steelhead fishing on the Colum- tun Hiver. Gov. .Mark Hatfield named a four-man committee to draft the formal wording of the resolu tion, which probably will he aiiopioil at the committee's next meeting. i ne decision is a blow to sports fishermen, and the Save our Salmon and Sleelhead virmin wmcn is sponsoring an initiative measure to outlaw tin commercial fishery on the river Named to the drafting com mittee were Dean F. E. Price. Oregon State University; Robert w. Nchnnlng, state fisheries di rector; P. W, Schneider, Game Commission director; and Chris u. Wheeler, state engineer. Resolution Postponed The committee postponed adoption of a resolution sub milled today by Wheeler which slated "the committee ..recom mends against enactment of the Initiative petition at this time The resolution asked hv Hal- i field Is to include a statement that both Fish and Game Com mission biologists agree that there would be no benefit to the fish run if the initiative were adopted. The .statement also is to point out that there is a "user inter est" conflict between sports and commercial fishermen, and thai minor changes in present regu lations would allow the Fish Commission to more rigidly control the Columbia salmon and steelhead escapements. Wheeler anil Schoning appar ently wanted the resolution en jcted today. But Schneider in listed he felt the Game Com mission should remain neutral, and not make a recommenda tion. Pointing to the running con fliet between the Game and Fish- Commissions over man iigenicnt of the fishery re source, Hatfield said, "This is a rare occasion when both the fish and game biologists agree that there would be no biologi cat gain from the initiative." Conservation Eyed He pointed out "the important point of this whole controversy is thai thi- committee is dedi cater' to the conservation of our resources. This committee was formed to solve the problems of user conflict of our resources. Scneider insisted that conser vation was not involved, that i no real question was a user interest conflict. But Schoning said the Fish Commission's job was to work toward the "wise use" of re sources. Conservation is the real Issue." he insisted, "there is no value to a resource if you ean't use it." Wleeler said scientific datu should be given consideration over user Interest. "There is no biological need now for the in itiative measure to protect the fish harvest." Six Tricks Are Only Six Tricks By OSWALD JACOBY fWritten For NEA1 "But partner! 1 held. 100 hon ors, mumbled South. Honors are more dangerous to bridge players than auto ac cidents," said North. Honors really bad killed North and South this time. Or per haps it was the fact that South, in common with many bridge players, wanted to play the hand himself. A little consid eration would have told him that his six spades would take 1 17 TOO FAR LEFT F.I, SEGVNDO. Calif. (CPU Dorothy Healey, 49-ycar-aUt secretary of the Southern Call forma Communist party, got into trouble with the law last eek for being too far to the left in traffic, that is. Police oflieer Arthur Hobday said he cited Mrs. Healey last Friday for making an illegal left turn at an intersection in this Southern California beach town. NORTH (D) AS V KJ3 A Q 8 5 4 VK8T EAST 10 7 S till A 6 3 2 V4I0 8 K63 J 10 7 2 AJ6 984 SOfTH A AKQJ96 If 974 9 753 Both vulnerable North Ernst South West 1 Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass S Pass 3 N.T. rss 4 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead If 2 It seems that West had open ed the deuce of hearts! It is a pretty good rule to avoid underloading aces against suit contracts, but this time West decided that he had a lot to gain and very little to lose. The lead really gave South a problem. He finally played the three from dummy. East won the trick with his ten and returned a club whereupon West underled his ace of hearts a second lime. South could have made the rest of the tricks had he played rium my'.; king, but South was look ing at only two hands. He play ed the jack and East's queen and West's aec plus the ace of clubs gave the defense their necessary four tricks. All very beautiful, but had North been allowed ' to play three no-trump there would have been no way to heat him. Q The bidding has been: Sooth Wnt North Rail 4 5 If S P ? You, South, hold: 4AKQJ91SI Vt 4)1 AIM What do you do? A rue. Your partner U romptUn. oi tryinr (or most important product for ar eas now having little in the way of forest economy. Judging from information con tained in the magazine, together with pictures, it would seem that aspen is reduced to fiber. The fiber is made into a sort of a paper. The layers of this paper, under heat and extreme pressvre, then may be fused into a solid molded slate, s. v Wood by this method, now is being made, into shapes andean;. tours previously available.' nniy in metals, plastics and other moldablc materials, it is stated. School desk tops, superior to desks which have gone before, seemingly offer a large future market. These desk tops, by the wav, supposedly are impervious to knives wielded by young sters who enjoy carving their initials into ordinary wooden desks. Another use is that of kitchen counter tops, rifle stocks, archery equipment, ta-; ble tops, trays, tops for washers and dryers, " carrying cases strong boxes, chair seats, etc During the Second World War: the Forest Service laboratory at Madison came up with a light weight airplane bucket seat made from wood. The wood was first reduced to paper. The paper was impreg nated with chemicals and ad hesives. Many layers of Ibis paper then were subjected to pressure and heat in molds which produced the scats. These seats were produced for the federal government and were used in aircraft where weight was an essential part of military usefulness. But the process was too expensive for general manufacture. I saw samples of it after the war when Forest Service representa tives were studying the market to learn if they could find some y of utilizing the process through private enterprise. But the process apparently was too expensive. It would appear from the Weyerhaeuser article that the German method is cheaper. In any event the appearance of this new product, in which wood takes on the character of moldablc plastic, bears out the belief expressed in this column on numerous occasions that the future of our wood industry lies in manufacture other than tim ber and boards. While aspen may be the ma terial presently needed for mak ing Silvaplex. it will not be long until rest-arch uncovers new uses for our Douglas Fir ber that Dodge Brothers Typc- B Sedan is almost as inexpen sive to own and operate as an open touring ctr. The price I S1250 f.o.b. Detroit $1475 de livered. J. O. Newland & Son." 25 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 193? A capacity crowd last night attended the formal dedication .ceremonies sponsored by the" Rose School Paien'-Teachiir As-" soclation and the district school ' board at the newly completed Rose School building. Follow ing an Interesting program,' over which Principal E. S. Hall presided, those attending were conducted by ushers on a tour of inspection through the build ing. The program included selec tions by the high school orches tra, directed by J. D. (Snap) Gilmore, and address of wel come by Mrs. Robert Mercer, PTA president, after which a history of the school was given by Miss Adeline Stewart, who was a teacher when the first Rose school was erected. The dedication prayer was given by the Rev. Morris Roach, pastor of Presbyterian Church. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1954 Judy Bellowr, Douglas Coun ty's most famous polio victim, will be the final judge for the winner of the mystery voice con ies' being conducted in the coun ty this year. The announcement was made by Bob Grant, infor mation director of the drive. Preliminary judging will be han dled by Mrs. Jack Cummins, Mrs. Leonard Johansen, Mrs. Jean Ogle and Mrs. O. J. Fctt. The object of the contest is to name the man behind the mystery voice which is broad cast over the local radio stations at intervals. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE RADIO SERIES i Station I 9:45 KYES Sundoys i i six tricks at no-trump as well as at spades. Of course. East and West had come up with a super defense against the four spade contract. TODAY'S QltSTIOS You pass. West bids six hearts and Ntrth and Eajt pass. What do you do now? FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Corner of Lone ond Jackson 9:30-10:45 Church School 9:30-10:05 Worship Service 10:10 Adult Seminars 1 1:00-12:00 Worship Service "The Way To Hear A Sermon" The Rev. John E. Adams 5:00 P.M. Youth Communicontj' Oast 6:00 P.M. Adult Seminar Nursery Care, 9:30 & 11:00 A.M. I