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W. C. MARTIN
Thur«., Feb. 7. 19.»
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tyi.» and typesetters for nowapa-
national Refugee Organization jx'rs pr inted in Estonian. Arme
JIRO) here reports. The paix*ra nian. Kalmook. Russian. Sloveni
and magazines have a total circu an. Hebrew. Hungarian and many
lation of 72.250 and are directed ither languages. Stocks of news
print wore uncertain and expen
to readers of 11 nationalities.
As recently as a year ago. refu sive. until IRO and some of the
gee editors were turning out 76 . voluntary aid agencies contrib-
newspapers and magazines, quite ited the major portion used.
professional in appearance and rrans|x>rtation for news-gather
a long step from the mimeo- I ing journeys was scarse The
graphed camp bulletins issued | cost of news services was pro
shortly after liberation. Several hibitive Licensing regulations of
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ment of subscribers and staff led ited the number of papers which
to the termination of sow publi could appear in any given nation
cations and the consolidation of ality group, as well as the con
others, so that only 35 appeared, tents of such publications Office
with a total circulation of 140,000. space and housing were difficult
Refugee journalists have had a to obtain when editors sought to
hard time of it — despite some bring staffs together from various
material supjx»rt, first from the parts of the zone.
It is extremely unfortunate that for the past two years,
one of the most worthy campaigns which comes to our com
munity has been hampered with the worst weather of the
year. We refer to the March of Dimes campaign, which got
underway on January 16 and which ended in most places on
January 31. Because’ of the weather the campaign will un
doubtedly be extended but even then it will not be the suc
cess it might have been with seasonal weather.
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So far the fight against infantile paralysis has been by
public support and this support has been very gratifying
nut like some other undertakings, the cause could conceivably
Washington Letter
be taken over by some government agency, if public contribu
tions fail to do the job and in a case of this kind, we might The Fair Employment Practice«
see a sharp rise in administration cost. More especially if the bill, better known as FEPC, has
government followed the usual pattern. This should not be been much discussed here lately.
allowed to happen.
In fact. I think you could almost
Today we are reprinting by request a letter about a polio say that the bill has been kicked DRAIN. ORE.: Taken in vain is
Victim, Byron Goff of Oakland. Perhaps he is known to around quite a bit. The fight in the name of Drain! Yes, in this
28 Colliers (page 56»
many. The striking thing about the experience of Mr. Goff is the House over FEPC is mostly January
they've used this Oregon town's
on
the
Democratic
side
of
the
aisle
the lesson he says he has learned and we quote here the last
The principle of FEPC having postmark along with those of six
paragraph of his letter :
approved in the Republican others to make a senseless sen
“I was made very happy last week when my physiother been
platfoi m. will have considerable tence under a corny bathtub car
apist measured me for braces as that is a definite step Republican support when the bill toon.
toward returning home and enjoying life with my wife and ' comes to the floor.
Note: Some humorists really
two small children. I might add that when I have overcome The scrap on the floor—or per- reach for it!
this ordeal I will have learned a great lesson in my life to । haps we should say the running
appreciate the smaller things, such as taking a step, feeding : battle on the floor left a few SALEM. ORE.: Murray Wade,
myself, holding a book and so many other things that most scars on the majority side. About who edits the popular Capital Pa
the only thing the Democrats sal rade column, is actually a Dr.
of us take for granted.”
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
vaged politically was to put Re
He’s an accomplished artist, as
publican members on the spot
> when the question of a change in well as writer, but few know it.
RUSSIAN METHOD ÖE BUILDING MORALE
House rules was brought to the His illustrations are in some of
Who invented the electric light? If you say Edison, you floor. That issue was made to the Northwest’s most valuable col
*
are wrong—it was a Russian named Yablochkov. Who de | sound pretty big but actually it I lections.
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vised the telegraph ? If you say Morse, you’re wrong again— was a tempest in a teapot. The PORTLAND, ORE Louise Pal
it was another Russian named Yakobi. The radio? No, it ; opponents to the rules change in- mer Webber - - the tremendous
sisted that unless the suggested
wasn’t Marconi—it was still another Russian named Popov. I change
defeated, members blond lobbyist who has been com-
How about the first successful flying machine? If you answer i would not was
get a chance to vote on i |>ared by some to the Duchess of
I Alice in Wonderland is gravely
“the Wright brothers" you’ll have to go to the bottom of the ! the FEPC bill
class—a Rusian called Mozhaisky flew like a bird near St. Weil, the iu!e was not chan.ged ill. She's tiemg missed now in the
Petersburg 20 years before the Wrights took off at Kitty but a day or so later when the City Hall, where she audibly
Hawk.
chairman of the Lab r Committc< audited council sessions for so
will he. in the "third
These, and similar revelations, are disclosed by Edmund sought recognition un 'er the rule, 'ong, and
of the legislature come
Stevens in the Christian Science Monitor. He found them in a he was ignored by the Spcakci house"
Soviet magazine called the Literary Gazette. They show, he who recognized another committee 1951.
Louise Webber is one of Orc-
says, one of the ways the Soviet party "woos Russian na chairman to present other legis I gon’s most colorful characters
lation.
Five
other
chairmen
wen-
tional pride. The move corresponds to a vital need of Rus eligible for recognition at that | whose personal life is a mystery.
sians to vindicate their self-respect and destroy the residue time. It is obvious that the so-call
of an old sense of inferiority. It also increnafs the Russian's ed 21-day rule, which the House GERVAIS, ORE.: There may be
confidence in their capacity to catch up with Ind outstrip the voted to retain, was of no benefit a Ford in some people's futures,
rest of the world technically at the present time." It is, in i at all to the FEPC proponents. but there's one in Chevrolet dealer
other words, an example of the kind of morale-building prop The bill can never come up under Governor McKay's past. Just last
lie got stuck in the ice and
aganda the government is now feeding the Russian masses. that rule. The FEPC bill can. and week
probably will, come to the floor his gubernatorial SOS was an
under
the regular Cadendar swered by a Ford rescue car.
CHANCE FOR ARGUMENT
Wednesday procedure which has
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EUGENE, ORE.: You'll have
been a rule of the House for many
There are those who will take issue with the weather years. The Labor Committee chair e irtliquake insurance whether you
bureau’s estimate of some 141 inches of snow up to January man will have his right to bring like it or not if the League oí Ore
26th, claiming that this amount of snow represents approxi up the bill under that rule in about gon Cities has its way.
mately 12 feet of water. This is one argument which would be five weeks. Also the bill may be According to their recent re
brought to the floor by petition port, during the last 94 years we
too technical for us to enter, not being a weather expert.
before
that time or it may finally have had more than 100 quakes,
Regardless of your opinion as to the number of inches of
and since there are numerous
snow you’ll probably admit that w’e have lived through a be brought to the floor by the fault lines on the earth's crust in
Rules
Committee.
record snowfall so far as this section goes; at least the The point of this discussion is the Northwest, their forecast is
amount of snow which fell during January has not been re that
the FEPC bill, or any other for bigger and better quakes in
corded in recent years.
legislation, can always be brought the future.
to the floor under the Calendar
OREGON - AT - LARGE: Some
Wednesday rule or by petition
IS CHANGE OF CUSTOMS NECESSARY
These rules have been the protec huckster's triumph is a current
ad which pictures an
Among the difficult things for the newcomer to this tion of the House against an auto national
ideal husband, waving boodbye
cratic
Rules
Committee
since
that
section to understand is why we persist in closing down prac-
was created as the re- from the inside of a cozy train to
tieaity all the social activities of the community during the ; committee
suit of a revolt against Speaker his Great American M o m and
.summer months and declaring the summer a season of pic- | Cannofi some 40 years ago. The their two moppets. Under it reads,
d»ics. If we are to endure this frigid weather in the winter . new 21-day rule has clearly prov "I have three good reasons for go
ijnonths, perhaps we will be forced to reverse the customary en to have little value. Neverthe ing Pullman. Comfortable, depen
¡process of shutting everything off in the summer and take less, the fight on it made mighty dable and — above ail — safe!"
Pretty high-flown verbage in
«our vacations and picnics in the winter.
good political hay for the Demo
any
copywriter's language! High
•
cratic members who were thus
.
—
able
to embarrass Republican enough almost to score a direct
members who voted for it. The hit on the railroads’ most threat
Glasses have an amazing effect on vision—especially great
game of politics is some ening competitor—the airlines.
«fter they have been filled and emptied several times!—The times wonderful. The fight on the
Maybe some skyway’s scribe
turning Question.
21-day rule helped some members will come back with one showing
politically, hurt others, furnished an ice-encrusted streamliner rest
a lot of newspaper copy—but, as ing its orange caterpillar splendor
was demonstrated on the floor al In one of this winter’s snowdrifts.
most immediately, the outcome of He could caption it "Adrift or
the vote was of very little impor Aloft” or “To be or not to be
there!!”
tance to the country.
Note: Comparing the histories
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Before the war Oregon people of the railroads and airlines in the
contributed money and provided light of traffic fatalities, the air
a supposed final berth for the lines are away ahead in safety
famous old Battleship Oregon. It records as well as in time.
was to be set permanently in the
Portland harbor and used as a
museum and place of scenic inter
est. Then the war came along. The
Navy, which had commissioned the
Oregon, again took possession of
Salem, Jan 28—(Special) Farm
it. The ship was sold for salvage woodland owners in the state re
because of the need for war ma ceived an income of $130,636 from
ferial. Here is the rest of the story; the sale of forest products on their
The Navy received $35,000 for the lands during the last quarter of
warship. The Government then 1949, according to Charles H.
turned around and paid the sal Ladd, senior farm forester with
vage firm. Edward M. Ricker & the state forestry department.
Co., $101,731 for material from
Broken down into terms of for
the ship. Still later, the Navy took est products, Ladd pointed out
the hull back from the company that this included 4,125,000 board
and now faces a suit from the feet of sawlogs, 667 cords of pulp
company for compensation for the wood, 2,000 pieces of piling, 1,050
old hull.
posts and miscellaneous materials
consisting of Christmas trees,
floral products and crude drugs
that can be listed only in terms of
(Mrs. E. I). Sherrill, rrpirter
cash value which has been placed
phone 648R4)
at $10,000.
Residents of the valley are re
During this three-month period,
minded of the necessity of reregis services have been extended to
tering since the change of ad 230 woodland owners in the man
dresses from Disston route to agement of 12,210 acres of farm
Route 1.
woodlands. In addition, special
forestry advice has been extended
QUICK RESULTS FROM
to 230 farmers through interviews
WANT ADS
and correspondence, Ladd stated.
Woodland Owners
Get $130,636 From
Forest Products
DELIGHT VALLEY
Cecil C. Wooley
Fast Main 8 tree I
KIDDIES
Refugees, now awaiting resettlement in European
camps operated by the International Krfugcc
Organisation UK<>>, a U. N. Specialised Agency,
are learning new trades to earn livings in new
homes and at the same time are keeping their
skills at their former professions. A group of
newspaper writers and editors (left) prnctiee
their new knowledge of tractor repairing. After
finishing their work at mechanics, they turn out
newspaper copy for one of 35 journals published
in refugee camps. At right, displaced editors of
a Latvian language refugee paper al work.
I Glancing Backward
Our threat America
Twenty Years Ago
Glen Arne win home from the
University of Oregon over the
week end
। Harry Castle of Blue Mountain
rcccnliy purchased a radio.
lii Dilin land all thing»» arc
bright
*
And chmn and full of
* cheer;
When plenty of our milk
Ten Year« Age
High School News Arlene An '
you drink
derson and Margaret Monson led | You travel in high-gear!
, school yells
Safeway grocery at the corner
<>f 6th and Main, the first of the I
week ta>gan the Installation of I
' new furniture and fixtures thru- '
out the store.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wolfaid !
and children of Eugene were Sun- |
day visitors at the home of Mi I
। mid Mrs. L-e Nixon.
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CULP CREEK
(Mrs. Cr.U!
(Mrs. R. R. Groat, reporter)
The news out Culp Creek way
is a little different from tlw rest
of the country correspondents and
Lane county in that school is in
progress in all five rooms in spite
of the zero weather. All Line
county schools were reported
closed over the radio Tuesday
morning, but evidently the station
hadn't consulted Culp Creek.
About 40 were in attendance
January 24 at the scliool social
elub at the schoolhouse. Mrs Billy
Hiatt, Mrs. Alta Colson and Mrs
Greta Estabrook were named to
make out menus for the scliool
lunclies.
Mrs. Glen Violet ha-, returned
home from Rhoades hospital in
Eugene where she underwent ma
jor surgery last week.
Mrs. Viola Walters returned
home after spending a month at
Astoria visiting relatives.
Mrs. William Earnshaw is still
reported on the sick list and un
able to do her housework.
Skating on the Lovegren mill
|x>nd is the favorite jwistime of the
Culp Creek residents.
As its share in the distribution
of the revenues from the 1919 O
& C income, Lane County is to
receive $267,436X17, District For
ester Otto C. F. Krueger announ
ced from his headquarters in Eu
gene last week.
lounb, reporter)
The weather is still the main
topic of conversation. The snow
fall in the higher areas has Ix-en
114 inches during these past w< eks .
of snow, but reaching only a three
foot depth at one tune, but it is I
still snowing. During the coldest ‘
nights tree branches were Snapp-.
mg off constantly, reminding ex-1
GI s of machine gunfuc.
An apple tree in the Orville
Limb orchard Ux< heavily burden-1
cd with snow uprooted and fell
over. The orchard has lost a lot |
of big branches from the trees
I
A large fir tree tell missing the I
Kotninek home by a few yards,
the tractor by about six feet with
the upper [»art of the Hec falling
across the highlmc and into the
highway. Though the highhnr was
brought to the ground it did not
break but Miap|ied back into place
when the tree top was chopped a-
way,
Young rabbits and some chick
en» were frozen to death.
The roads arc in bad condition,
many curs have been stalled, club
meetings postponed and no school
at present.
Some ex-GI's have received their
G I insurance checks here already.
Mrs. JoKn Macauley who recent
ly underwent major surgery at
Eugene is convelescing at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Z. R.
Davis at Creswell.
Individually is the salt of com
A people, it appears, may be
progressive for a certain length of | mon life. You may have to live in
time, and then stop. When does it a crowd, but you do not have to
stop? When it ceases to possess I live like it, nor subsist on its food.
individuality. John Stuart Mill. 1 Henry Van Dyke.
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