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Thursday. April 7, Ulciah News SEC. 2. PAGE ONE THE UKIAH NEWS Office and Plant Located at 106 North School Street, Ukiah, Calif. Telephone HOmeatead 2-3803 DOUGLAS T.TBEITTS PUBLISHER EDWARD.

GOODYKOONTZ MANAGING EDITOR GLEN WRIGHT ADVERTISING Display Advertising Rates on Application Legal Advertising at Legal Rate Entered as second class matter in the Post Office at Uklah, California, Under Act of Congress of March 3, 3879. Subscription Rates One year, $3.00 6 Months, S1.75 5c per Single Copy PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK Mann to Man When building, one should be careful to do It right. Few of us have the know-how to erect buildings even in our own business. We have been building for the past 40 years with the idea that many people gather in theatres and, therefore, these buildings should be properly constructed. In consequence, we employ the best architects, those who undei- stand this sort of construction.

Very fortunately, the necessity for having these buildings properly engineered was forced upon us at the start by things that had happened many years before. About 50 years ago, a man I knew started building theatres in the nation's capital. It so happened that I had been connected with some of the great theatre builders of the past and. they had always insisted on the proper construction of their theatres. I asked this man the question: "Have you a theatre He answered: "No, but my architect can get the information out of books." 1 told him that one of the great theatre builders I knew, Mr.

Jules Mastbaum, joined with Mr. Marcus Loew, whom I knew very well, in building a theatre in Boston. They both wanted their architects and engineers'to make the plans. They couldn't agree on which one was to do it, so they compromised by having both handle the building. Still this man went ahead with his inexperienced architect.

The first theatre he built had the whole corner cave in before the building was finished. The second one UTILITIES TAX DODGING "SLEEPER LAW" STANDS EXPOSED; IT SHOULD BE REPEALED We join with County Assessor W. L. (Webb) Brown in urging that a "sleeper" bill, passed by the legislature in 1949, suspended by the 1951 legislature but kept on the books to become effective on July 1 of this year unless repealed, be put to sleep permanently and buried deep. That "sleeper" bill is known as Chapter 1468 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.

This choice bit of attempted tax dodging maneuvered through the 1949 legislature "by the utilities lobbies, was adopted on the strength of argument and propaganda advanced by the lobbyists for the utilities that their properties are assessed in counties on a higher valuation scale than are other properties. This, they argued, was discriminatory and county assessors should be compelled by a new law to reduce their assessed valuations on the same basis as all other pri- i- vate property, including homes. Assessor Brown, and many other county assessors over the state, are pointing out that the state board of equalization sets the utility assessment rates, since the county sessors and the general public are prohibited by law from finding out just how much the utilities are really worth in any county from the standpoint of how much return they bring to the utility companies. This information is "confidential." In other words, the records of all other properly owner's in the county are open to the assessor. in determining what assessable valuation should be placed on the property for tax purposes, but the utility company's records are hush- hush.

The utilities might be making an enormous profit from an operation occupying a few acres or a few city lots of land. And the utilities corporations want us to believe that the profits they are making from tjie occupancy of this land are none of our business; that the utilities' property should be asessed on the same basis of valuation as, for instance, a private home which is used exclusively for family dwelling, or, for another instance, a small shop building or retail establishment whose owner gains a. modest living by bother i a Loilobrigida, but operating it. Assessor Brown warns that the property tax bill now paid by all utilities in Mendocino county amounts to- about 16 per cent of all assessment levies paid in the county. Last year, he pointed out, the utilities paid $540,316.24 while all property owners in the county paid $2,893,213.76.

Should the "sleeper bill" now be revived on July 1 this year, says the assessor, the resultant deficit in county revenues would be passed oh to all other tax payers or the important fairly merciful, it just tells her; it doesn't show programs and functions now being carried on by the county her. BY GEORGE M. MANN he built at this time was successfully operated for a few years. Sometime later, I was on my way to Washington. D.

to visit my mother. As I went into the washroom of the pullman car, I heard several men talking about the terrible catastrophe that happened the night before in Washington. When I inquired, I was amazed to learn that over 100 persons had been killed in the second theatre built by this man. There had been quite a heavy snow, and the weight of the snow on the roof had caused the collapse of the building. That afternoon, upon my arrival in Washington, I visited the ruins of this building and was amazed to see what had actually happened.

The steel girders had been anchored in flimsy walls and were doubled up like pieces of small wire. There were several people I knew very well who lost their lives In this disaster. As the years went on, It became my responsibility to decide on the construction of our theatre buldlngs, and I have always seen to it that we not only had a good architect, but that the plans were properly engineered. From time to time, we have had many engineering reports on our buildings. Only this morning our general manager, Mr.

Ialoyd R. Lamb, told me that he had two engineers check our State and Eureka theatres in Eureka, Calif. They reported that these two buildings had gone through the earthquake in Eureka recently and the way they withstood it was remarkable! This pleased me greatly, as you would imagine, and it is a source of great pleasure to know that all of my organization and myself have been so careful in these sort of things. Covelo SANDRA WILLIAMSON Phone Yukon 3-2475 Mr. mill Mrs.

B. O. Barnes were business visitors in Ukiah Monday. They left for San Francisco Wednesday for a few days' visit. A school of instruction for the ground observers was held at the high school Tuesday evening, Mar.

29, with Sgt. Richard Starkweather and Lt. Alford D'Atture Ukiah and Oakland in charge. This was to instruct new observers as well as old ones in the new method of reporting pianos. At the close, two films were shown by Sergeant Starkweather.

Elmer Brown was presented an award for 2,000 hours service with the GOC and more awards will be given as time goes on Broadhoad is connected with the Indian affairs office of Sacramento. Mrs. Clifford Thomson and her daughter, s. Yvonne Schultz, kept dental appointments in Ukiah Wednesday. Mr.

and Mrs. Cecil Williamson and Mrs. Beatrice Lovell were Ukiah visitors Friday. Mr. and Preston Shields met Mr.

and Mrs. William Crockett in Lake comity Sunday to briny Preston's mother, Mrs. Mary Shields, home after spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Crockett, at Sacramento. Stuart Brown, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Kollie Brown, and Roger O- 'her detail Fen-all; son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Mr. and Footprupters Hold Dinner Meeting Upwards of 50 members attended a dinner meeting of Mount St.

Hedrin chapter, International Order of Footprintcrs, held last Thursday night at Club Calpella. Business was dispensed with and the evening devoted to social activities. they will spend Easter vacation with relatives and friends. The Covelo Hiding; club is making plans for a rodeo at the local grounds Sunday, May 29. Fur- will be released later.

Mrs. Martin Brown O'Ferrall, went to San Francisco drove to Petaluma Friday to visit Monday where they will be induct- their daughter, Mrs. Betty Gunder- ecl into the armed forces. son and family. Harold Worthlngton left Tues- Hovorcnd and Mrs.

Slusher and day for Sacramento where he has baby of San Anselmo came to Mrs. Iris Hill kept a dental ap- stcumI steady carpenter work. Covelo Sunday where Mr. Slusher polntment at Ukiah Wednesday. Mrs.

Myrtle Brown was in charge of the store during her absence. Mr. und Mrs. George Short and son, Jimmle, of Red Hill, were Covelo shoppers Wednesday. They also visited Mrs.

Short's mother, Mrs. May Perry. Mr. Broadhead ot Sacramento was in Covelo this week attending to business concerning the sale of the Reservation Indian land. Mr.

Mis. Worthington and two chil- conducted service at the Federat- dren will move there at the close ed church. of school here in June. Mr. and Mrs.

Karl llolzhaiiHer Xorniau Whipple, son of Mr. and and granddaughter, Susie 1 z- Mi's, Dewey Whipple, his parents after seivin; the last two years. Mr. and Mrs. Jmm -K Hurt spt-nt last week at Anderson visiting Air.

Hurl's daughter. Mrs. Ira Barnes and family. They also vis- visiting in Korea hausor, and her girl friend spent this weekend at their mountain ranch. Mrs.

Kimmi Winters Is confined at Howard Memorial hospital at Wiliits this week for medical treatment. Dr. Raymond Babeock is ited relatives at" Eureka and in Hie attending physician. Last re- Florence McGehee MAMA! It's spring. Buds are bursting, leaves are greening, "the voice of the turtle is heard in the Mama's thoughts are lightly turning to new raiment.

Filled with a fine feeling of euphoria, she flits to the fitting room. and THEN Comes the all-points view of herself in the angled mirror. If there is anything more punishing to one's morale, what can it be? Maybe these things don't we're talking about Mama. At home she can stand before the bathroom looking glass and recite, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall. "Who's the fairest one of all and the thing will respond, In proper loyalty, "Why YOU, of course, darling!" Even the bathroom scale would have to be sharply curtailed.

There then, in the raw, is an attempt by.Jlie.big utilities companies to pass the burden back onto the shoulders of their customers, the other taxpayers in this and all other counties of the state. There are some other angles to thing which should be kept mind. Every time the utilities apply to the state public utility commission for a boost in the rates charged their customers, the consumers, they put up the argument that they are big taxpayers, that taxes are a large part of their operational expense, and that therefore they should be permitted to charge higher rates. May it then be assumed that if the utilities are successful in preventing repeal of this tax dodging bill before next July 1, they have in mind passing the savings they will make by reduced taxable assessed valuations on to their customers in the form of reduced rates? If the utilities have any such philanthropic idea in mind, they have been most reticent in making it public. The rate structure charged by the utilities is, presumably and by their own argument before the state utility commission, based upon a "fair return on investment" and upon operational expenses.

We have not opposed some of the increased rates asked by the utilities in recent years, being convinced that they, in common with all other businesses, have had big increases in costs of materials and labor used in their operations and that they are entitled to a fair profit. But if this latest attempt to evade paying a fair share of taxes based upon assessed valuation of property which already has been considered in setting the rate structure, is successful, we shall look with skeptical eye upon the recent utility rate increases we have tolerated on the assumption they were "fair." Until or unless the utilities corporations give evidence that they are merely trying to save themselves some millions of dollars by getting their taxes reduced, so that they can lower their rates and give their customers a chance to save some dollars with which to make up the deficit in public revenues, we expect our state senator and assemblyman from this district to vote for repeal of Chapter 1466 of the Revenue and Taxation Code at this very session of the legislature. MAY WE BE AMONG THE FIRST to congratulate the pastor and congregation of the First Baptist church of Ukiah upon the completion and dedication of the new addition to their building? This, the first unit in an expansion program, provides facilities for pre-school children of nursery and kindergarten age. Further units are planned for other age groups as this progressive and forward-looking church organization prepares to do its part in making and keeping this growing city a Christian community whose young people have the advantages of religious training and fellowship. It is indeed heartening to see our churches with, or some steps the need for Christian of community life.

ENCOURAGING NEWS was that story on our front page of last week bringing the information that the state highway department's district engineer, Alan Hart, is busy in his Eureka office preparing a preliminary report on Ukiah's traffic problems as relate to the proposed freeway- by-pass. The report is to reach the office of the state highway engineer some time in April, this very month. Presuming the report will be given speedy consideration in mento, public hearings will then be slated to be held in 'Ukiah, probably this summer. Let it be hoped that before the hearings start, every element in the Ukiah area will have reached accord on such details as where the routing should be, the need for the by-pass and any other questions which may be pertinent. If there are differences of opinion among us, they should be resolved before the hearings.

Why not some public hearings on the local level, some "town meetings" on this important development, where all posible disagreements can be threshed out, if there are any? The Ukiah Chamber of Commerce would be an excellent sponsoring body for such town meetings. Verily, the Chinese, who have long insisted is worth a.thousand words proved right again. The awful truth, viewed from six different angles, is starkly there before the eyes of The Little stripped down to her slip and left alone in the fitting room. Viewed from north, south, east and west, that strange bulge about the middle becomes stranger yet; the lordosis curve in the back, once a mere hint of indentation, is slightly remindful of an over-burdened camel who has been living too long off his fat; the hair that is so definitely thinning in unsuspected places is not nearly so romantic as silver threads among the gold; and the new crop This I Believe Every once in a while in the millions of words written and spoken about making the peoples of the world free and satisfied with their lot on earth, a sentence or two is written which is both wise and rich in the experience of life. Such a sentence appeared in "Collier's Comment" of the April 1, 1955, issue.

It read: "The way to exploit Communist weakness is to build democratic Strength; in Asia it must be our sympathetic help Asians, with their own hands, in their own way." "With their own hands, In their own way." That is the key to the progress of nations. No foreign power can impose upon groups of people, either by force or by economic gifts or pressure, or propagandized persuasion, a pattern of life foreign to the ethnic concept of that peoples' civilization. No foreign power can pi'ovide the WILL it takes to rebuild a crumbling civilization or to construct out of the chaos of a worn out polity a better and more sustaining ideology in harmony with the broader vision and greater wisdom of this 20th century era of man's progress. No foreign nation can work that change in the hearts and souls of men necessary to discard age-old beliefs, and try the tenets of a new philosophy. All any foreign nation can do is to offer as example the achievements and the methods of its own political economy and social justice.

If these produce a sounder society, give more of the world's goods to the average industrious individual, enable him to have more leisure in which to enjoy the fruits of his labor, and guarantee him equal justice before the law, affojKl him the equal opportunity in a competitive world of freedom to rise to any station in life he might have the ability and strength of character to achieve; and if the leaders of a heretofore oppressed or disheartened people can be convinced of, and will understand and accept the truth and practicability of these things, then such a foreign nation has done much to make the world a better place in which to live for such peoples. But no foreign nation can impose its will upon peoples of other nations and expect good to come therefrom. To attempt it is to defeat the good intended, or to reveal the selfish motive. Before any peoples can improve their lot they must first have the ability to implement their desire for betterment by intelligent thought and deed; and they must be moved by an earnest resolution to profit by the help of other nations willing to asslt them. of crow's-feet cannot possibly be ignored, even when viewed in profile.

There isn't much, really, that purple and fine linen do to assauge the brooding solemnity induced by contemplation of all one's flaws coming at one from several directions at once. If Mama started out, full stride, on her shopping tour, a song in her heart and a tender little voice whispering inside her, "What has Marilyn got that I haven't got?" her mood is soon changed, for, here, right before her eyes, is the answer. She didn't want the answer, actually. She doesn't want any new dress, either, she finds. Toss her a length of sack-cloth at this point and it will do very well.

Take away her lipstick and strike up a dirge. Send the photographers away. Open the book of Ecclisiastes and plunge right in. Reflect that beauty is as beauty if that's any comfort. If it isn't, bring a bowl of hemlock.

If she's militant toward her problems she'll mentally revise tonight's dinner, leaving off the mashed potatoes and the butterscotch pudding. She'll decide to take the money for the gas bill and spend it on hormone creams. She'll buy something very expensive in black navy blue, a sweet little number that is all pure "line." Having thus manned her battle station, she'll buy a gardenia on the way home, reflecting that Eleanor Roosevelt is no peach, either. But -r -it's spring! Let there by gypsy violins In the fitting room, singing birds of bright plumage, fragrant boughs of apple blossoms, and a saleswoman with oily lies upon her tongue. She'll be forgiven.

BY JOHN M. CAKTWRIGHT OPEN The Editor, Ukiah News, Ukiah, Calif. Dear Sir: Thirteen months ago I was inducted into the United States army and six months thereafter was sent to the Republic of South Korea; While over here we have become ucqaintad with the plight of the children who have had to suffer the lavages of war. The men of our unit, the 32D Infantry Regiment, have taken It upon ourselves to help these youngsters as much as we possibly can. We have built and lent our support to two orphanages, and have built five schools.

We feel that this aid to the children and the furtherance of their education will prove a bulwark against communism and will help to insure the future of this democracy in tiie orient. We ask no plaudits for our part in the job but we do ask for a helping hand from yon. We need desperately supplies to furnish these schools with the equipment to properly carry on their job. These children ask for nothing but the thanks is obvious in each smiling face. Such basic commodities as notebooks, pencils, paper, rulers, and erasers are very scarce.

We are asking you. the friends and neighbors who chose us to serve our country, to help us to help the future of Korea. Anything and everything is needed and will be cheerfully welcomed. Open your hearts as the people of Ukiah have done so often in the past when a worthy cause has been presented. Any and all donations in the way of school supplies will be tremendously appreciated.

Please help us to help these youngsters. Send your packages to PFC Thomas W. Jondahl US 56244450, Hq. and Hq. (PIO) Reg't, APO 7 Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Yours truly, PFC Thomas W. Jondahl. Trinity county before returning home. Mr. and Mrs.

Kil Long arrived at their Covelo summer home from Richmond Friday for the summer months. Mrs. Phyllis Debeni, her daughter, Claire McCulloch, and baby daughter of Ukiah drove to Covelo one day this week where they were met by Mr. and Mrs. George Short of Red Hill for the purpose of taking a picture of the five generations in Mrs.

May Perry's family. port she was some better. Mr. and Mrs. Spurlock and their granddaughter, a Williamson, left Friday for Ukiah where Lurline Walter will join them on a trip that will take them to the southern part of the state.

They expect to be away about ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Ka.ston Terry went to Corning this weekend on business. They visited Mr.

and Mrs. Norman Dunlap at Lakeport en route. Al Dane of and his' (laughter, Mrs. Dorothy Mason, and Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Klffe left two children were Covelo Mon- Saturday for the ay area where (lay visiting friends RJLLERTON RENTS By the Hour, Day, Week or Month COMPRESSORS Sales-Service CEMENT MIXERS WELDERS TAMPERS PAINTING EQUIPMENT PUMPS Air, Gas or Electric PAVING BREAKERS ROCK DRILLS TRACTOR LOADERS DRILL STEEL DRILL BITS SAND BLASTING FULLERTON EQUIPMENT CO. Ukiah's Largest 265 East Clay Street Ukiah HOrnestead 2-4524 I have said on more than one occasion in this column that no people can be greater than the stuff of which they are made. They must find themselves and rise to the full stature of then- resolution. If they borrow foreign ideas, they must make them their them into their own ways of life, into" their own cultures. For they must be impelled to a just way of life by an earnest and resoulte conviction that their new philosophy of life is right.

Liberty and freedom are not bought cheaply, nor are they assured by the ambitious aid of foreign nations however well intentioned. Liberty and freedom exist only in the hearts and minds of men. It is something they themselves must fashion out of the moral fibre of their own being. And they must do it "with their own hands, in their own way." All the good, all the wisdom, all the inspiration of which men are capable are certainly not found exclusively in either the civilizations of the west or in the civilizatons of the east. In all civilizations the bad is mingled with the good.

And there is much of both. But sometimes the west sees too much bad in the east, and the east sees too much bad in the west. The truth is that each may profit from the wisdom of the other. If western civilization does in fact offer more to the individual, morally and physically, than the civilization of the east, and if the infiltration of communism -into the east is in fact reducing- the masses of eastern peoples to a greater degree of slavery than that which they already then the west should encourage these people to build democratic strength into their systems of government. Surely the west can strive to show these people what democracy really is, how it works and how lt may achieved by them.

But democracy itself must be brought about in their own lands by these Asiatic peoples by their own hands, in their own way. Only in this manner can the spirit of democracy be realized fully In Asian countries. For only in this way is it not a foreign garb to be worn against the will of peoples steeped in centuries of oriental philosophy unadjusted to the ways of the west. But if the peoples of Asia can convince themselves that western democracy offers then! more personal freedom than communism or any other form of government, or any other type of economy, the inducement to adopt democratic principles will be strong indeed, and by their own hands and in their own way they will achieve It. Our greatest program In the east should be one of education.

Let the little peoples of the how well a capitalistic democracy guarantees the freedom and happiness of the individuals who support it. Here's Mrs. Barnes' favorite recipe OLD FASHIONED LEMON MERINOUE Mi Tatlr-trgUd by P. Q. and K.

fiamonia Dtfi. Make pie crust and cool. Filling: Combine 4 than, cornstarch with 1 cup sugar. Add juice of 3 lemons, 1 tbsp. grated lemon rind.

Mix with 2 cups hot water. Cook until thickened. Then add yolks of 5 eggs, whites of 2 eggs. Cool. Then pour into cooled pie crust.

Meringue: Beat remaining 3 egg whites until stiff. Add 3 tbsp. sugar. Heap on pie. Bake in electric oven (pre-heated to 300 degrees) 35 to 40 minutes until nicely browned.

"I get perfect results every with my marvelous new 3 efectric range!" says Mrs. Nathan Barnes, 100 Watertrough Road, Sebastopol, California "My husband raves about the pies I've been baking in my beautiful new electric range! It's virtually failure-proof. And it's so clean I can cook for a my party dress!" You'll find, too, that you can always depend on a modern electric range for delicious, perfectly- done cooking and baking. And with today's low rates for electric cooking any budget can afford this modern way to better meals. See the beautiful new electric ranges at your appliance dealer's, today! Electricity is cheap in California! IM-V-45J Pacific Gas and'EUctrkCompaitjf.