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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.