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FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE City Editor Tax Talk By JOSEPHINE KITTREDGE The special session of tho Oregon Legislative Assembly is engaged in a struggle between two political parties. A bipartisan coalition ex ists in both Senate and House, with the stronger division in the Senate. There is a sullen bicker ing between the members of the assembly, and an obvious unwill ingness on the part of Governor Holme6 administration 10 aamu that the surplus figure projected for the biennium could be some what mythical in amount. The governor of Oregon is elected to serve as the state's chief executive and as such repre sents all the people regardless of party. To call a special session of the Oregon Legislative Assembly after consulting with only the lead ers of the majority parly or Demo crat Parly, in the state, was to place himself in the spot of only giving consideration to opinions in one political party. He is now In the unenviable po sition of having called a special session to consider the best dispo sition of a supposed surplus in tax collections, and a tax reduction program, without having given the Republicans the courtesy of a bipartisan conference on the mat ter. A wise man very rarely places himself in a position where he is unable to exert leadership In an emergency! The thought might be advanced that Governor Holmes was only re sponsible for calling the session, and then turned the whole process over to the legislators to follow through to a logical conclusion. There is an argument against this assumption in that the program presented by the Dcmosrats in the special session was read by Gov ernor Holmes in his message at the opening of the special session and is called "Tho Governor's Program" by the legislators. Also, Richard Eymann of the Oregon State Tax Commission has called it, "Tho Holmes Program." I am sure that there will be a compromise plan worked out by the legislators that will provide for a tax reduction for Oregon citi zens.: Neither the legislators nor cither political party will want to come home and face the taxpay ers without specific changes to en courage an upsurge in the econo my of Oregon and help provide more jobs and payrolls, and bet ter markets for agricultural com modities. We all grant that we need a bi partisan national leadership on the grave problems that we arc now facing. If this is true na tionally, is it not as necessary that the state of Oregon have a leadership that rises above parti san and political valuos? A lead ership that Is tolerant of the opin ions of others, that is not afraid to evaluate the qualities of its devotion to the public Interest, and if necessary, courageously change position? Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats should place them selves in the driver's seat when elected to public office, and crack the whip on tho rest of the team after only consulting the party wheclliorscs. Just in case they for get ,, . there is always the tax payer and his family in the back ground. There Is nothing partisan about money or taxes; especially when you look at your real property tax statement in November! Why don't you ask your legislators to look at the facts , . . cooperate on a bi partisan program of tax reduc tion , , , and come home? About Fish By CHARLES V. STANTON Editor Roseburg News-Review It Is my earnest effort at all tunes to be a true conservationist. Sometimes I think I carry my enthusiasm lo unnecessary and ex cessive extremes. For example, 1 have long been preaching that we should reduce pronation on salmon runs in coast' al streams, and to that end have vigorously contended that glllnets snoum no removed from those wa- ters, thus enabling more fish to reach spawning beds. Also have gone on record against increasing the bag limit for sports fishermen until It can he shown that the downward trend of salmon populations, as record ed for the past 20 years, has been reversed and that larger sports limits may be permitted without damage to the various runs. I am Beginning, however, to aues lion the need for any bag limits on sports fishermen, particularly il all anglers have my luck, or, ramcr, my lack thereof. 1 have Just returned from a week ut the coast where, with my dad and brother, I engaged in the annual fishing excursion the three of us have taken for the past 25 or more years. Whether it is my extreme re gard for fish populations or wheth er I jtut have a jinx hung on mo I am unable to say, but I can asure everyone that 1 did no damage to the fish runs this year. Every day for week, until I had blisters on top of blisters, we trolled Hot Shots, flat fish, wobblers, spinners. Cherry Bob bers, Doc Sheltoiu and various other lures through miles and miles of water on Yaquina and Silciz hays. On cery hand we could see! Catered a kcoiuI cite nutter at the post office at Klamath Palls, Ore., on August 20, 1900, under act of Congress, March 8. lint SERVICES: ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS . Serving Southern Oregon And Northern California , fish. They rolled ahead of our boat, ahey rolled behind our boat They could be seen on either side. They jumped across our lines. Chinooks even nosed our spoons forward, slacking off the line. But could we get them to strike? we could not! So far as I'm concerned the sports bog limit on salmon could be raised to 50 per day and it still wouldn t hurt the population I can t even get the two per day or four in seven days permitted by existing regulations, and I don t believe there are many Oth' er fishermen using sports tackle who, without fishing diligently ev. ery day, could break the present limit consistently. Of course, I expect to read that the fish are biting like hungry wolves this week. My many years of experience in fishing coastal waters cause me to believe that no amount of fishing with sports tackle can se riously hurt any salmon migra. tion. too few fish will strike sports lure. The percentage of take, as compared with total run, is ex tremely small. Yet, I would rather wait until I know that methods employed to date to reverse the downward trend of salmon populations are successful before we authorize any increase In bag limits. One side effect of the removal of glllnets from coastal streams is the shortage of fresh salmon eggs sought by steelhead fisher men for the winter season. Residents of the coastal area have been in the habit of buying fresh salmon eggs from gillnetters and processing the eggs for win ter use. The only supply of eggs now comes from outside trollcrs. For the most part these eggs arc frozen and are not as suitable for bait. Too, they are not evenly dis tributed. This situation, while causing un- happiness among anglers planning winter steelhead fishing trips, is gratifying to conservationists in terested in restoring an abundance of salmon to our currently deplet ed streams. The shortage of eggs means that millions more egg than In previous years are being deposited on spawning beds, thus offering the possibility that future migrations will be proportionately larger. Anyway, If the salmon runs in the Yaquina and Siletz four years from now show any reduction, don t blame me! Occasion By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK tfi As any ordi nary nappy man does, 1 awoke as usual this morning with the pleas urable sensation that my wife was pouring champagne on my toes. 1 awoke, and discovered, as usual, that my wife was not pour ing champagne on my toes. Restraining a natural sense of masculine criticism, I Inflicted her with my usual air of sleepy authority, and the said: "Do you know what day this is?" She thought I didn't really know what she had in .mind. The trouble for her Is that I did. As a matter of fact I had been brooding about It for 20 years, and dangling her an tnai time. "This, my dear," I assured her. "was the day I destroyed you for ever, just two decades ago. iou were a carefree, bare- minded working girl, and I did the most cruel thing a man can do to an innocent girl with a purpose In this world to take her away from her Job." Well, you did, she said. "So I did," 1 answered. "And industry Is the poorer, but I am the richer." "Don't you think we should celebrate?" "Celebrate what?" "This is an occasion." "Living with you, every day is an adventure. Being married to a Mau-Mau might olfor the oppor tunity of an occasion. Being mar ried to you every moment, even alter 20 years, has its strange ness." "Other men do things different." Pogo KSSK' l w 0 eeeme things fS&i 0Vl"' I "'H Wff . THAN A faetkK IN I A MIGHT tUmt.A YtW HI , CNA A HI5H YOU "1 C -!W fi?NSA HAN3 0y,V TAIL FCSM A SOKHA eg I Vie 09 6T IN THg Ai5- Vi.i.sr11 me wiRe f J onw &e a poor as- a hal? eavg , . J CffouND mci,u eye "You could have married an other man." "Well, still ... I don't feel you have the proper attitude. "If I had proper sense, I wouldn t have married you, cer tainly." "Well, I didn't have to marry you. I could have married any number of men. And why I picked you I don't know. And who else could you have married any way? A Mau-Mau. "Which Mau-Mau?" "Any Mau-Mau." "Would you rather have her?" , Not after knowing you. "Do you think I am like a Mau Mau?" . "Which Mau-Mau?" "You don't make sense." "Do you want me to make sense. "Some days." "Then marry another man on those days. "But you aren't at all alto gether satisfactory. "I'm not?" ' "No, you're not!" "But you are!" ' "Am I really? You just say mat." "I do." "But do you really mean it? , I mean from the heart?" "Well, I'd rather have you than ajjy Mau-Mau I know. "You're sure?" "Sure. Will you do me a favor?' "What?" "Is thera any champagne in the icebox? "Yes. Why?" "Will you open a bottle and pour it slowly over my toes? "No, I won't. And why do you ask such a crazy thing? "Because I know you wouldn't "Do you really think this is the way to celebrate a 20th wedding anniversary? "No. not if you don't wake me up' by pouring champagne on my iocs, inis is my anniversary. too. Leadership Had Klamath Falls (To the Editor) In your column you speak about Eisenhower's leadership be ing wonderful. 1 can t see that he has done anything but make blunders. He has made more of them than any President we have ever had. If he is so good, why is it this country got in such a mess in the first place? I suppose you will tell me the Democrats caused it. That is the old slory me Kcpubllcans are always tell ing. That Is the way they have of passing the buck 'when things go wrong. Eisenhower may have been a good leader of the Army in his day. But those days are over. When it comes to leading the country, he is a flop. Everyone can see this, so I think the facts speak for themselves. C .R. Jones Freight Cars Portland To the Editor- Knowing of your interest in freight car supply we are taking this means of keeping you posted on what we have done, and are do ing, to keep our lines adequately supplied with freight cars. During the period January 1, 1946-December 31, 195G, Southern Pacific placed in service 46,268 new freight cars an average -o 350 per month. Of this number, 28.434 were box cars. During this same period, we made a net gain in cars ot 20,431. Ut these. 14.046 were box cars. The new cars also were better due to larger capacity, type of car and new construction. Ten years ago these cars cost us $4,650 each. Today, they cost more than $9,000 each. From January 1 to October 1. this year, we have constructed in our shops or received from manu facturers 3.772 new freight cars, That's an average of 420 per month. Of these. 1.173 were 50- foot, 50-ton double-door box cars. As of October 1, we had on or der 8.067 freight cars and the Pa cific Fruit Express (one-half owned by S.P. had on order 1,000 SUBSCRIPTION RATES CARRIER 1 MONTH MONTHS , I YEAR . MAIL 1 MONTH MONTHS I YEAR 1.80 .0 fli.M 1.(0 7.60 au.oo mechanical refrigerators, costing more than 20 million dollars. Since the end of World War II, S.P. has appropriated a record- breaking 365 million dollars for new freight cars of various types We are making these enormous investments in an effort to keep pace with the transportation needs of the territory we serve. We hope we can continue expenditures like these. The problem for us, as for all railroads, is a simple one of money. We try to overcome rising costs by devising money-saving methods and installation of facilities that cut operating expenses. But there is a limit to what we can do in this respect. We know you real ize fully that our ability to buy necessary freight cars and other equipment depends on our earn ings. s Bernal S. Quayle Same Old Song By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (-Fans of a base ball club that used to call Brook lyn home base were wont to mut ter: "Wait until next year." To day business leaders and govern ment officials are taking up the same chant. That the long and strong bust ness boom has stopped for a breather is widely recognized from President Eisenhower on down. That the next six months or so will be comparatively quiet at the best, and slightly lower at the worst, is the forecast of the majority of government and pri vate economists. But wait until next year. Almost all of the soothsayers are counting on a renewal of the boom. Only a rare Cassandra here and there talks gloomily of a real recession. Depression has become a naughty word. Part of this is due to the widely held belief that the government will do something that the gov ernment won't let a recession de velop, unemployment spread, business profits turn to business losses. What government does undenia bly has considerable weight on business activities. But the Federal Reserve Board chairman reminds us that govern ment cannot and should not "pre vent declines that have to occur from time to time," This will shock those who hold that government by its own ac tions alone can and must halte a recession at its outset. There is considerable difference of opinion as to just what is hap pening today, president Eisen hower calls it a breather. Some of his government economists stick to the rolling readjustment tag. The Federal Reserve chief. Wil liam McChesney Martin, holds that the breather is really a healthy correction after a boom that brought inflation as its price and that any attempt to prime the in dustrial pump now would bring on another spurt of inflation and fur ther cheapening of the dollar's purchasing power. Business in many lines didn't boom this fall as industrialists and merchants had hoped. But over all activity is at such a high level and the unemployed form such a small percentage of the total labor force that most Amer icans aren't really hurt by the breather. It's that next year about which there is uncertainty. So far the signs favor those who hold that the pickup which didn't make an appearance this fall will arrive some six or nine months from now. 0,UOlCN By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Ei senhower, In saying one of the most difficult problems in perfect ing an intercontinental ballistics missile was firing it into space and bringing it back to earth with out having it burn up from atmos pheric friction: Our scientists and engineers have solved that problem." CAMBRIDGE. Mass. - Massa chusetts Institute of Technology President James Rhyne Killian Jr., appointed by President Eisen hower as special White House as sistant in science: The potential for scientific ad vance is tremendous, and 1 feel that there is a sense of urgency, mission and dedication in the sci entific and engineering community of the United States capable of meeting the need." BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dr. Clifford Furnas, chancellor of the Univer sity of Buffalo and former secre tary of defense for research and development, in hailing Killian's appointment: The President is definitely get ting far better advice on the im pact of science to our national posture. WASHINGTON - Assistant De fense Secretary Paul D. Foote. in denying charges belore a congres sional subcommittee that inter service rivalry delayed the U.S. satellite and rocket programs: l his is absolute nonsense. The rivalry that has existed has ac celerated the missile program. The real reasons we are behind is that the Russians starled earlier." TheyH Do It Every Time -,; Vermin needs $o,so he asks a s0ft-he4r7ed friend for fiftx figuring he might get twemty-. LOOICCHUMLEV, BUDDV-IP I OOMT GET HOLD OF FIFTY DOLLARS I'LL BE SUNKyoU'RE My LAST RESORT New 'Rights' Committee Leader Expects Trouble , WASHINGTON W)-Former Su preme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed looks for "plenty of trou ble" ahead for the new Civil Rights Commission he has been named to head. He was one of nine justices who by unanimous decision in 1954 de clared racial segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. Now, the results of that contro versial ruling have brought Reed back from retirement to try to ease some of the tensions that re sulted, as well as to look into other phases ofcivil rights. The Kentucky-born Democrat, who will be 73 next month, has been named by President Eisen hower to head the six-member commission in a two-year study of civil rights problems, Last Feb. 25, Reed stepped down from the" Supreme Court where he had served for 19 years, because he said it no longer seemed wise to continue "the strain of unremitting exertion" re quired by his court duties. Last night, Reed, smiling and looking fit, stepped from a plane at Washington's National Airport to learn that the President had announced his return to a new government post. Reed was just coming back from a rules committee meeting of the American Bar Assn. at Louisville, Ky. He was still work ing on judicial matters. Asked If he foresaw difficulties ahead in his new job, he replied "I'm sure we'll have plenty of trouble. But he seemed quite con tent to face whatever It might be, Though officially retired at $35,- 000 a year. Heed nas Kept nis hand in judicial matters. Federal Scouts Hold Honor Court Troop No. 9 of Pelican City bestowed its first Star Scout awards Thursday night at a Court of Honor ceremony in the Pell- can School. Receiving star badges were Michael Fenning, Michael McClurg and Gary McGill. Dis trict Council Executive Jerry Thorne made the presentations. Qualifying for Merit Badges were Douglas Fraley, firemansliip, home repairs, machinery and wood work; Phillip Charas, fireman ship, machinery, woodwork; Louis Leppert, basketry, firemansliip, fishing, machinery; Michael Fen ning, basketry, fishing, machin ery; Michael McClurg, basketry, cooking, firemanship; John Wright, firemanship, fishing, machinery; Gary McGill, first aid, machin ery: Stanley Waldo, firemanship, hog production; Charles Brown, citizenship in the home, maclun-l ery; Joseph Matlick, liremanship; Jack Phillips, firemanship: James Phillips, firemanship: Kobert schui machinery; Ronald Schill. machin ery. Second class badges were re. ceived by Charles Brown and James McClurg. Special awards went to Phillip Charas. scribe: Jack Phillips, quartermaster: and Michael McClurg, librarian. Mich ael Fenning, Michael McClurg, and Douglas Fraley each received one- year service stars. Troop No. 9 is under the leader ship of Travis Miles, scoutmaster, and Louis Leppert, assistant scout master. C0IL0IR PHOTOGRAPHERS HOW- 2 DAY Service ' oh ; ascochrome I AND EKTAUIROME : : E I At All rtTSTAUOTt Mm ; 70 MAIN St. ant IOWN4COUNTIT ' yuu i mm i iti tig -SEX-V ".;.i.i retirement law permits him to sit on lower courts when requested to do so. Only last June, he broke precedent by. serving on a U.S. court of claims case here. He was appointed to the Su preme Court in 1938 by President Roosevelt after a career in gov ernment work that included serv ice as solicitor general the gov ernment's chief lawyer before the Supreme Court, - At the time of his appointment to the court, Reed was considered a New Dealer, but later he came to be regarded as one of the court's conservatives. Eisenhower, in accepting Reed's resignation, said Keed had partici pated in many important decisions that would "influence our nation's development for a long time to come. In a recent 'speech to the Cali fornia State Bar, Reed noted the controversy stirred up by the courts civil rights decision and commented that "fortnnatelv wrong decisions afe not irremedi able." Only chaos can result from mis use of power in ooDosintr court judgments, he said, but those who aisnxe a decision can seek amend ment of the Constitution or a court reversal of the decision. 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