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You Are Storting To See" Things My Way My Way!" , or. i. a t Pa from the PRESSBOX a e Page 4 The News-Review Double Any question about support of vo cational and technical training as part of a proposed community col lege for Douglas County must have been dispelled by published reports this week. First, there was strong indication from industry leaders at a public hearing that vocational and technical training should be incorporated into anv community college curriculum. Then, the Umpqua Guidance As sociation, made up of people who should know about school dropout problems, took a four-square stand in favor of making vocational train ing a part of a community college course program. Both groups saw such training courses as at least a partial answer to unemployment problems. The Umpqua Guidance Association took the stand as a method of meet ing the rising tide of school dropouts, who find themselves mercilessly thrown into an unemployment pool. Most of the time, the academic courses offered do not appeal to these dropouts, but learning to do something technical might spark their interest for further education. The association feels the employ ment market also offers limited hor izons to those having just a high school education. Meanwhile, almost to a man, the industry spokesmen at the Thursday hearing of the Legislative Interim Committee on Technological Employ ment insisted vocational training would be helpful both to the indus tries and to the young people. Many of those present said they Opinions Perhaps Assassination Guilt Can Be Collective To The Editor: Communism killed President Kennedy. I had nothing to do with it. I detest and abominate the crime. Why should I feel guilty or you, for that mut ter? Lee Osward was horn and reared in the United Stales. Why did he turn to communism at the ago of 15 years? Was Oswald crazy? In my opinion he was no more crazy than a man who robs a bank. People are murdered In this country every day. It is only when a great man such as Kennedy is murdered thai wo realize the horror of tho crime. Karl conies comes, Marx said: "Atheism be f o r e communism In The Day's Hews- By FRANK As this is written, tho Uttlu.quick island of Zanzibar, in the Indian Ocean just off the cast coast of! Africa, appears to be one of the hottest spots in u world that is full of hot spots. . African r.utionalists have over thrown the island's 250-year-old Arab government and are pro ceding to get rid of the Arab rulers. Three of them, this morn ing's dispatches tell us, arc to bo hanged publicly. Another one will be doused with gasoline and burned alive. A wealthy Arab merchant has been ordered to kill his sons and daughters ami then kill himself. Lesser Arab dignitaries are being compelled to lie down in the street, stripped to their un dei'wear, and sing songs in praise of the rebel leaders who have overthrown the centuries old Arab regime. The rebels have arrested American diplo mats, It's a changing world we're in Zantihar? It's a flyspeck island with an area of 640 square miles. T h e Portuguese discovered it in the 1300's. Two hundred years later. the Muscat Arabs drove the Portuguese out and have been there ever since. Zanzioar I famous as the world's chief source of cloves. It's chief bust ness is the growing, harvesting and exporting of cloves The island group of which it is a part is known to history as the Spice Islands. The Spice Islands have been famous in history. When Columbus stubbed his toe on the Western Hemis phere in 1942, he was seeking a water route to the spice regions and was terrible disappointed when he found what had happen ed to him. Why was spice so important in Miotic days? It's an interesting story. In those days, there was no retrigeration. So their meat tended to gel pretty high, pretty Purpose Eyed For College From I' Communism is not just a sys tern of economics. It is first and foremost a denial of God. A Christian, Jew or Moslem, or any person who believes in God, cannot at the same time be a communist. A Christian communist is a contradiction. When people ignore God it is not long before they deny Him If there is no heaven, there is no hell. If there is no judg mont, there is no judge. If there is no judge, then everyone can pursue his own happiness and break all of God's Ten Commandments. (Only, avoid the police and keep out of jail.) No doubt Osward was happy) when he killed Kennedy. Today the name of God can hardly be menlioned in our pub s! he schools. In some school: children are not permitled to 'sing the "Battle Hymn of the JENKINS The spices, n o t a b I y i-iuvoa, icnouu 10 Keep mo mcniicn Itule go together. eatable for a longer period of l don't know if Lee Oswald time. It was a Big Business. Genoa and Venice became great and powerful cities because they were the European centers of the spice trade. The spices came up the east coast of Africa and through the Red Sea. Camel trains carried them across the Isthmus o." Suez, and ships car ried them to Genoa and Venice. That brings us around to can a Is. A canal was dug across the Isthmus of Suez, thus enabling ships to avoid the long haul around the southern tip of Af rica. Eventually, Arab Egypt grabbed the Suez Canal. Much! trouble followed. In the course of time, we dug a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, thus ending the long haul around the tip of South America. Now there are threats', that the Republic of Panama may gran ine ranama uinal Here's one for the book: I In Washington. Senate cralle Leader Mike Mansfield! pioposes that the U S, and othei il'lll:1,'Hn ot m"i'i 'ban 8.1.000 maritime nations help finance1 vvil1 publication one week a NEW SHIPPING CANALi lmll across Southern Mexico, by way I 1,1 announcing the demise of nf the lsihiims nt TehmmiAiw i 'm western edition Thursday. lie says it would relievo traf fic in what he called the in adequate Panama Canal and so might help to quiet present ten sions in Panama. He adds that we might USE ATOMIC EX PLOSIVES to do the excavating! Thus, he add s. it would Kel ler the 1 anama i us out from umi thumb. It might, indeed. But At the same time it would uet us under Mexican thumb. Such Is hie. the SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1964 had to train their men from scratch. In fact one spokesman said he often has to hire men who have no previ-' ous knowledge of the raw material ; and product on which they will wprk. They felt courses in both forestry and lumber generally, as well as such specific courses as welding, electricity, etc, would be of great value to the industries in achieving full production from their men ear-' lier. The Hanna Nickel Smelting Co. spokesman summed it up from the other side of the coin, i.e. how such training will benefit the man search ing for a job: "If a person will go out and train himself, he won't have trouble finding a job." The consensus was that raw, un skilled labor is a glut on the market, but skilled workmen are badly need ed. One man saw the age of vocational or technical training even at the high school age as a possible way of building "inspiration" into a young person to make him a better em ploye. These decisions and discussions are interesting in light of the arguments which have arisen with the new com- . : munily college programs all over the state. The original idea was to make community colleges lower divisions of the formal colleges in the aca demic field. However, now it; ap pears a lot of people want the com munity colleges to serve a two-fold purpose both as a low-cost lower di vision training ground for academic study and as a vocational-technical school. Read ers ltepuoiic. now many children, or adults, can recite the Ten Commandments? At the same lime Gus Hall and other communists, arc in vited and welcomed to our col leges to indoclrintate our slu dents in tho evil philosophy ol atheistic communism. It is not a question of being a liberal or a conservative. It is a question whether we are to be for God or against Him. Lee Oswald was a product ol our own materialistic society. Perhaps there is such a thing as collective guilt. Prank Liening C. V. lit., Box 515 Winston, Ore. Patriotism, Golden Rule Are Important To Life To The Editor: In my letter to Reader Opin ions recently I said that stress ing patriotism and Americanism might prevent another Leo Os wald. i i a lieu to say mat inn i.oui-i en Itule and the Ten Command meats might also help. ' To me, life itself is based on I them. Patriotism and the Gold had a brimiing un in a church ;l haven't read of it. He surelv didn't show it. Our pcnilcn- tianes are full of people who didn't prrctice the Ton Com mandments. I think patriotism and Amer icanism in tl.e schools and ev erywhere, a hickory stick in the woodshed when needed, a love of (iod and the Ten Command-!,., moms in me Home could pre vent thse tragedies. May God help us prevent an other coward from shooting our President in the back! Let's all sing loud and clou so they can hear us in Russia, "God Bios: America, Lund That I L-ive. Mrs. Juanita Cobh 150 N.K. Promise Roseburg, Ore. IfTICS I 0 ttld Coast Edition NEW YORK (UPI) The Pomo-!ttrstern edition ot the New orl! Times, with a listed cir- Arthur Havs Sulzberger, chair- !r7" "poscu in 11 vapi man. said the action in no wav:"'1 Investment Uub.- a ,,rr....i. ih v.., v,i, ...n,:..n ".. group of reporters who have 11,,. w v.-t t... ini..lpulwi their resources tSlO tional edition published simul- m"n,n' 1,1 laneously in Pans. ;the stock market, . Financial loss was Riven as1 Together, we make a (ormid the main reason to discontinue able combine. When we give Hu, it-..,!,.,-,, .!,ii, ui,...i, i,:iior broker n ou-rbuse order. bl,on puWi!iht in (os Antlftl ,.,, , m2 Sulzberger pointed to the high costs of remote simultaneous' publication w-tlh the parent New York edition and the lack ol suiiicient in.ome to itetrayi these costs The West Coast edi- lion is distributed throughout 13 western states, ; -M 3ri By ROBERT C. ttUARK -,Mr,M LONDON. Oh, my God out of cigarettes again! The Americans have now con firmed what the British knew earlier on, which is that cigar ettes are bad for you, and now we have the paradox about peo ple smoking too much because they're worried about smoking too much. The big papers here banner ed the story, in print as high as they used to employ for news for Suez, and 1 get the decided (impression that the tobacco i trust has just knocked over the government in Zanzibar, rigged the riots in Panama, and is raising all manner of hell in Calcutta between the Hindus and the Moslems. Got a match, Sweetie? This lighter is always out of flint 'I hank you. Better send down to the tobacconist. Looks like there may be a run on gaspers The Cubans are responsible, iot course, for the findings of. the panel. Everyone knows that Col a's economy was spocifieal THE LIGHTER SIDE: ( f By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) The so-called Bobby Ba.er case has produced a good bit of discus sion over whether members of Congress should make public their financial holdings. Congress, as you know, al ready requires such an ac- unting by top admii.istration oificials as a check oh conflicts of interest. But it has imposed nothing of that sort on itself. Some members feel It is vong to i.sk presidential ap i.oinlees to do something they j,,, - ,. unwilling to do themselves. - few have even none so far as to publish their own holdings voluntarily. By and large, I am on their side. 1 believe it would be a good thing for congressmen to put their holdings in the pro verbial "goldfish bowl" par ticularly if they own any I watered stock. I I do not think, however, that 1st newspaperman should ask members of Congress to, do something he is unwilling to do. So I have decided to make public a list of my holdings. If. that is, one item can properly be called a "list." All of my capital assets cur- resources tsto a Wall Street trembles. When we io him an order to sclL Wall Street shakes. This is because we only buy or sell stock on days when there is an earthquake The decision to wait for a 1 1 h Ji terrestrial tremor betoro takinglceivei s. a plunge was concession to a The authority operates conservative minority t h a I span. wmsmmSK'- Tobacco Decision Is Far-Reaching lly based on tobacco, as Well as ....... tl..,t r-iL'trn'r -u!l sugar, and that Castro s racing off to Russia t tell Khrushchev! to tell tho United Nations to tell Nkrumah. that this cigarette scare is only a filthy, captialist plot to cover up lor the riots in the Cana Sone. This is known as double, or even triple, espionage, because if the Cubans backed the Ameri can panel on cigarette smoking this clobbers the Virginia tobac co industry, which sends its products to London, and puts Cuba back in the tolacco pic hire. It also' returns Turkey to the modern tobacco market, and Fatimas will rise again, to- gc'her with Confederate money Get it? ; . . . For- heaven's sake, Cynthia, empty the ash tray! Don't you know that these things cause cancer? Now, if the Panamanians knock over the canal, this puts the burden al transport on Suez, and you know that the Egyptians! are not very happy about the usurpation of the old faithful Financial Profit Should Be Seen wanted to keep our funds in coffee can. After I resolved to make my finances public. 1 went to the club treasurer to get an up-to date audit of my holdings. "For 1963 you showed it long term capital gain ot Sl.Slli and a short term gam of 15 cents, he reported. 1 said. "1 hat 5 pretty goon. considering that there hasn't been an earth.iuake recently." "Actually, those figures arc just a tax write-off gimmick," the treasurer said. "If you really want to know where you stand, you have to consider the value of your holdings, which! increased by St. 74." j 1 said "1 don't understand why my net worth only in creased SI. 74 if 1 made $5.11 in capital gains." "That coffee can doesn t de clare many dividends," the treasurer said. Well, that's Wall Street for you. Up one minute and down the next. Washington State Hits Bridge Cheaters t PORTLAND (UP! I - The Washington Toll Bridge Author ity staged another crackdown this week on the Portland-Vancouver Interstate Bridge. Three persons were arrested for failure to pay the 20-eent toll and released on $25 bail each. George E. Rogers, cashier-in- charge, said failure to pav tol has cost the state of Washington thousands of dollars since the toll began in January of l0. He said many persons throw men, items as wtshers. candy wafers and linoleum cut to re semble coins into the metal re-! t h c j' ' 'H Egyptian tobacco trade by . the Yankee imperialists. Suez will, in effect have a monopoly on ,; tobacco, ..bccausei vou see -Gastrocan v use .'the f anama Canal to hustle hot pcr- feetos. and this opens the door with Mao Tse-tung, who is real ly starting up a new tobacco industry in Ghana. That's why tl.ey had the purge, stupid. Cynthia, for heavens sake, must you leave the thing burn ing on the window sill? These things are bad for you Now as I see it, if Panama links up with Ghana, we will have no market for wheat with Russia, but the Chinese will make a deal with Algeria to push tobacco instead of grapes, which will throw the wine busi ness back into France and that involves do Gaulle. This will di rectly affect the Common Mark et, and de Gaulle will be selling our chickens to Castro in return for the tobacco monopoly in the Sahara. Just one more time, Cynthia I warn you. Either smoke it or put the bloody thing out. The place smells like a kennel. It Gets Messier Where were we? Oh. If de- Gaulle muscles into the Cuban tobacco market in return for our chickens, and the Danes never forget the Danes, because they are invading the gammon field here and "matting a poor thing out of British swine the Danes sign a separate peace with China in return for the buses the British have sold to Cuba, we will be in devilish poor shape in Cyprus. No, Cynthia, I will not allow you to smoke a pipe. They stink, and your lips arc unlikely enough already without the add ed impost ot lip cancer, rare as it be. How do I know what's going n ; r,-P,,o r,-nt,;-; All tlw Cypriots I know live in Soho.is'll!C' and carry switch-blade knives Really. So Makarios is a man of God? So was Rasputin. But 1 do not think that even Mak arios or Rasputin was respon-i siblo for the recent cigarette scare. It has to be dc Gaulle at the bottom. Well. I don't sec what that has to do with the bus business In Cuba. We traded tractors for people, and financed Castro's missile bases which Khrushchev; bought when he was trying to corner the filter-tip market. Or did we not trade tractors for! people? Was it only drugs and ransom money? Uganda Creeps In Luanda grows bananas, most ly, and the government did not throw out all those people for smoking on the sly. Uganda threw the people out for making a joke about African political competence, which is as it should be. African political com petence is so great that I cite you the latest news from Gha na, where even the would-be as sassins can't hit Nkrumah with any consistency, hecause they have to stop for the pause that ref-eshes and reload between shots. My Lord. Cynthia. A horrid thought just occurred to Me' What do you suppose will hap pen to the world if they put Coca Cola off limits, because it doesn't taste good like a cig arette should. These are indeed parlous times, and wc must watch and ward and beware. Why arc there never ony -matches in this house, now that spring, despite the snow, is aimost there? ICooyrl , Hi) ii, Unrtw p M , lnt , Br VIN Got to wondering Wednesdsay if about half the people who quit cigarettes after the govern intent's report last week hadn't already given up the battle and i gone back on the weed, would be interesting to know how many quit Saturday or Sun day but were back smoking by Wednesday. I called Chris the photog rapher Monday about 3:30 in the afternoon and he didn't seem to be his usual happy, wiseacre self. Detecting a difference from his normal behavior, I asked him what was the matter and he said, "I'm trying to quit and am getting quite upset in the process. Not realizing what he was! talking about, I kidded him about knocking off work in the middle of the afternoon and he then informed me he was talk-. ing about quitting cigarettes not work. Haven't checked back since to see u ties still on l.ie wagon or not. Cordon Stewart says he's going to quit newspaper, tele vision, radio and magazines and keep on smoking. I eertainlyyam surprised not to have gotten several answers to last week s bridge problem by this time. The puzzler is so old that, al though my faded clipping is from a Minneapolis Star ot years ago, I thought the hand would have made its way out here long ago and that many bridge addicts would come up immediately with the answer. It has been so long since I worked it myself that I didn't remember how to play the hand and was afraid that I might have to "eat crow" or spend a long time reworking the prob lem. Was sure, though, that I'd get enough correct answers that I could.,put the solution in the column without going to a lo( of work myself. The only pcri.cn who has told me she' figured the thing out is Mrs. Alma Parks, who works here in The News-Review. At least there is now one person in the area who doesn't think I 3n 2)aJ " Taken from the files . 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1M4 Auto Suggestion: It is easy enough to be pleasant, When your automobile is in trim, But the man who's worth while Is the man who can smile, When he has to ride home on his rim. County Agent B. W. Cooncy today called upon State Veteri narian W. H. Lytle to aid in the investigation into the strange malady which has already caus-l ed losses amounting to between Si 2,000 and $15,000 to the goat if! breeders of Douglas County. Some goat breeders have lost four and five hundred head, which at a value of $4 per head, makes the loss a very serious matter. C. It. Maupin in Elkton and L. E. Goodburn of Sylmon Valley have lost many head from their large herds. 25 YEARS AGO Jan. IB, 1939 first boxing card to be in Roseburg in more The Here's the smart way to keep 'check' on money! Pay your bills by check. It's safer, and your cancelled checks ere positive proof of every bill oayment. Saves you time, too! See us for checking accounts and other banking services to suit your every need. Douglas County CTATC t i JIMI L a ROSEBURG OAKLAND SUTHERLIN BRENNER was kidding when I said there was a solution. Guess we'll wait until next week before printing an answer. Surely there must be many others who will work it out be fore then. The editor of the Hope, Ark., Star says "The tragedy of the people is We start off with a rsuntry and wind up with a government." You've heard a thousand times "The best thing about going away is coming home." I don't believe that could be any more true than for anyone from Roseburg going to Klam ath Falls in the winter time. Mrs. B and I drove over Wed nesday afternoon and back on Thursday. We didn't realize, I guess,' that Klamuth's 4,200 feet plus elevation would make the dif ference in the weather that it dees. It was cold there Wednes day night and unfamiliar snow was on the ground. It snowed all morning Thurs day and the trip over the Green Springs route coming home in the afternoon was possible only , because of the use of much de spised auto accessories , tire chains. v The scenery was beautiful up on the top, with the trees heavy with snow, but you'd have to love a person like a brother to make that round trip to see him. The boys on the K. Falls paper were quick to remind me that I had given them the ber ries last fall when Roseburg was No. 1 in the state in tho football poll and the Pelicans were nowhere in sight. . This week the positions are reversed in basketball and they wanted me to know about it. NAMED CHAIRMAN WASHINGTCN (UPI) Mar garet K. Hickey, public affairs editor of the Ladies Home Jour nal, was naired chairman of the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women Thurs day by President Johnson. (jone $3yi of' The News-Review than three years will be, offer-, ed on the night of Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Roseburg Ar mory under the sponsorship of Umpqua post of the American Legion. The card is being ar ranged by Rudolph Ritzman, as sisted by Pat Padelford, former Roseburg boxer. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. IB, 19S4 Lyle Wescolt is the newest member of the Roseburg Police force. He lias been hired to re place Elmer Swales, who mov ed to California. WescotL is a former policu reserve member. Roseburg Jaycee committee heads are planning the first an nual State Junior Chamber Jun ior Ski Tournament ever held in the United Stales, to be held at the Hoodoo Bowl ski area on Santiam Pass. Committee members arc Paul Peterson, Fred Weber, Bill Allen, Don Ilagedorn and Alan Knudlson, general chairman. The sanc tioned event is for junior rac ers between the ages of 14 and 18, either boys or girls.