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Vigil Over Timber Will Be Kept On Umpqua Forest This Fire Season By 36 Lookouts r Thirty-six lookouts are taking their places on the Umpqua National Forest this week, to keep watch against forest iires during the summer. A new steel lookout tower on Mt. Chivigny Is being manned this year lor the first time. The tower, 54 feet high, was erected by the Douglas Forest Protective Association, bufis be ing manned by U. S. Forest Ser vice lookouts because it over .looks a large area of national forest timber on the Little River North Umpqua divide. Ray B. Hampton, fire control officer of the Umpqua National Forest, said the tower was ob tained by the state forester's of fice from a former bombing range in Idaho, where it was used in airplane control work. It was erected here under supervi sion of Fred L. Southwick, dis trict warden of the Douglas Forest Protective Association. On top of the tower is a-14x 14-foot house, to be occupied this summer by Arthur Rankin, lookout for the North Umpqua Ranger District under Ranger George Churchill. Hampton said the new look out tower, along with six other sta tions, are being equipped with FM radio. These include Red Butte, Lookout Mountain, Illa hee, and Mt. Chivigny on the North Umpqua District, and Black Rock, Watson Butte, and Pig Iron Mountain, on the Dia mond Lake District. Master sets are located at the Glide and Big Camas Ranger Station. FM radio sets, Hampton ex plained, give clearer reception and - are better able to cut through storms and electrical disturbances than conventional radio equipment. FM also eli minates much static ordinarily picked up. A number of "handy-talkie" portable radio sets are also in use. These are for smoke chasers to communicate with lookouts or ranger stations while on the scene of a fire. They op erate on the same frequency as the FM sets used by lookouts and rangers, said Hompton, Annual School Attended. Lookouts and their assistants last week attended the annual guard school at Wolf . Creek Training Camp on Little River. There they were instructed in fire detection methods and in the use of radio and telephone equip ment. The lookouts will man 17 pri mary stations -(of which Mt. Chivigny is one) and 19 fireman-lookout stations, where the lookouts go to the scene of small fires as well as watching for signs of smoke and fire. In annual competion in the guard school, Hampton reported, the South Umpqua-Cow Creek District won first place in such contest as bucking logs, pack ing horses, compass and pac ing, as well as in the test on in struction fire detection and smoke chasing. The North Ump qua District placed second. f. Vwn-f J I 3; l .5 j-. v V I m re , ..... -i m ur x i ax i j . irsrv.,- was. ushj; Achievements Of 4-H Clubbers Make Adults At U. S. Capital Take Notice By JANE EADS WASHINGTON Caroline Steel of Greenville, Tenn., who was re cently in town for the National 4-H Club Camp, made a bedroom out of an attic, put up 450 cans of fruits and vegetables last year, raised 100 chicks. Caroline, a pe tite, 18-year-old sophomore at the University of Tennessee, wants to be a supervisor in a nursery school. She is a pianist and plays for all the state 4-H Club meet ings. She is also a 4-H Club of fice holder and makes all of her own clothes. She made the trimly tailored brown gabardine suit and char treuse blouse she was wearing when I talked to her. She was eager to visit the Capitol. "I'm in terested in government. I've heard so much about it and all. PICTURE FRAMING but I've never seen it in action." Bill Cooke, 17, of Milan, Tenn., cleared almost twice as much money last year as the average farm laborer in Tennessee, mak ing a little over $1400. He has 12 cows and heifers, which he told me are valued at $2,000. "But, you see," Bill said, "I've been in busi ness 13 years." Caroline and Bill were but two of the 200 up-and-coming future rural citizens of America whose accomplishments made the adults who met them here sit up and take notice. Pays For Own Schooling . There were Bill and Sandy Blackhall, identical 18-year-old twins, juniors at Maryland Uni versity. They have worked on a farm near Faulkner, Md., for 12 years and made more than enough money raising beef cattle to send themselves to the university for four years of animal husbandry. And there were Elsie Clausen, 17, from Skylight, Ky., who help ed renovate a church in her home town, and Alfred Austin, from Scottsdale, Ariz., who carried out a campaign of Illuminating bl cyles at night. To obtain the highest honors in 4-H Club work many members take on more than the required number of the club's 25 projects. Evelyn Marshall, 17, of Clarks ville, Ky., had completed 48, in cluding everything from sewing to raising beef calves which she sens in tne state Fair. NEW LOOKOUT TOWER Firty-four-foot steel lower has been erected on Mt. Chivigny, on the Little Rjver-North Umpqua divide. It was constructed under supervision of the Douglas Forest Protective Association and will be manned by Forest Service lookouts this summer. (Forest Service Photo.) HANDY-TALKIE , Here's Mel vin McChord, district assistant at Tiller Ranger Station, demon strating use of "handy-talkie" radio set used for communica tion by smoke-chasers with lookouts and rangers. (Forest Service Photo.) Henry Johnson, 17, of Cleveland, Tenn., a truck and dairy farmer, who cleared $215 raising pole beans last year, had completed 61 projects. Theme of the camp meeting was "Know Your Government," and the youths avidly explored its activities in the capital. They visited many government agen cies and both houses of Congress. In group discussions among them selves they agreed congessional filibustering should be curbed, that the judicial system of the fed eral government should be streamlined and that emphasis should be placed on the study of government in our high schools. Vets' Auxiliary Refuses To Give Negro Girl Trip COLUMBUS, O., July 1 OF) The Ohio House o Represen tatives yesterday adopted a reso lution which, in effect, asked the Ohio American Legion Auxiliary to send Joan Rankin to the Girls' Nation Assembly in Washington. The resolution disapproved the Auxiliary's action in not sending the 16-vear-old Cincinnati girt to Paul Washington because of racial dis- Delicious Ice Cream for Your Fourth of July Be Sure Of Quality Ask For UMPQUA ICE CREAM We con supply you with ony quantity of ice cream that you will need for this weekend. We'll specially pack in in dry ice to keep it as long as necessary. Phone 38 and we II have your order reaay. we win appreciate it ana you will receive faster service if you order early. ti O 1 14 -.m .'" '! """" - ' " ' '"l ti crimination she might encounter there. Miss Rankin was elected gover nor of Buckeye Girls' State last week. Usually, the various girls' state governors attend the girls' Nation in Washington. However, Mrs. Carl W. Zeller, director, said such participation was entirely voluntary on the part of state or ganizations. Mrs. Zeller said the Auxiliary "positively will not" send the Ne gro girl to Washington, because it : wanted to save her the embar I rassment posed by certain social i discriminations In Washington." Congress1 Failure To Renew Trade Treaty Embarrasses U. S. Agents Working Abroad By JAMES MARLOWE WASHINGTON, July 1 (JP The reciprocal trade agree ments act died last night at least for a while because Con gress failed to get around tp re newing it. This act Is a cornerstone fn our foreign policy. It was first passed in 1943 under the guid ance of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull to build up , better trade with other countries. It has been renewed repeated ly since then by congress, the last time in 1948 when it was made clear the act would die June 30, 1949 unless Congress acted to continue it. Months ago President Truman told Congress the deadline! was approaching and the act should be renewed. The House approved it. But the Senate has dawdled. Maybe In a month or so the Senate will finally do something about it. In the end, Congress is expected to continue the act for at least another year, maybe an other three years. All this Is a little embarrass ing for this country and a group of our trade experts. They are now in France with the repres entatives of 33 other countries, all trying to work out trade agreements. They have agreed on a number of deals - work on thenvgoes back two years - and Mr. Tru man has been able to start them moving by approving them. The trade agreements act gave him this power to approve. But Mr. Truman - - in this case, the U. S. - can't okay any fur ther deals at the French meet ing after today, until the act is once more renewed by Congress, whenever that is. So the senate's tardlr.es's leaves the work of the American experts in France a little up in the air. Yet, these agreements goods Imported from other countries provided they recipro cate by lowering their tariffs on certain goods imported from us. We've made these agreements with 24 countries. for example: we may want wine from France, France wants machinery from us. We lower our tariffs on French wine com ing in here. The French lower their tariffs on machinery going into France. We may not want French silk. The French may not want our roller-skates. So we don't lower our tariffs on their silk. They don't lower their tariffs on our roller skates. This Is the crudest kind of ex planation, for the whole prob lem is very complicated, as can be seen from what the experts of the 34 countries in France are trying to do: To cut down country .by country deals and end discrim ination among countries, they're trying to Vnake agreements by which any country that lowers its tariff on certain products of another country will give all of the other 32 countries the same tariff rates on those certain pro ducts, (that dosen't mean all products.) When the trade act was first passed in 1934 our tariffs on foreign goods coming in here to compete with American goods were very high. This was to pro tect American producers. So the act allowed the presi dent to cut tariffs where he saw fit, but only after a long study by government experts and pub lic hearings where anyone who thought he might be hurt could complain. Some congressmen, particular ly Republicans, haven't been too fond of the trade act. They've argued the tariff cuts have hurt some American businesses. Before letting the act be con- are important in restoring world I tinued, they'll fight for what trade. I they say is more protection for What Act Meant. I American business. They'll do The act means simply this: that by trying to put more re The U. S. will lower our tar- strictions on the president's lffs on certain, agreed-upon I ability to cut. Comptroller Opposes War Insurance Dividends Where U. S. Paid Premiums WASHINGTON, June 30. m Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren objects to payment of some $20,000,00 in war insurance dividends to' Army aviation ca dets and others for whom the government paid the whole pre mium. Warren's stand was set out in a letter to Speaker Rayburn of the House and to Veterans Ad ministrator Carl Gray Jr. Premiums on the $10,000 Na tional Service Life Insurance pol icies were paid by the govern ment as a form of added com pensation for a special type of service. The insurance was pro vided lor cadets, lor apprentice seamen and members of the Nav al reserves enrolled as flight of ficer cadidates, former Naval academy midshipmen enrolled as flight officer candidates, and men starting flying activities. In an exchange of correspond ence with Warren, Gray said the Veterans Administration has decided that such policy-holders are entitled to participate in the forthcoming dividend disburse ment of $2,800,000,000 by the VA. The Veterans Agency took the position that the policies were a gift and became the property of the holders. IS Vttt l A 1 L7 111 w - we V ft 1st BRAND SHOE J jrr-7 kick hundred " . en - ;Ussofpioble,n. 6y fcftO0e A STAR . . . your assurance of tnduring material!,! , stoutlr out cogether.j "Better Shoes for All the Family" WAYNE'S 1)8 W. CASS "Just around the corner from Douglas County Bank" Warren, In calling the matter to the attention of Congress, said: "It would seem only proper that where the premiums on in surance are shown to have been paid by the United States from appropriated moneys, any divi dends attributable to such pay ments should be payable to the United States and deposited to the miscellaneous receipts of the treasury." Warren said his office was without authority to prevent the payments, but "deemed the mat ter of such Importance as to prevent this report" to Congress. Frt., July T, 1949 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Or. 9 Airline Advised To Drop Southern Oregon Points WASHINGTON, July 1. UP) The Civil Aeronautics Board suggested Thursday that West Coast Airlines, a feeder carrier which flies between Medford, Ore., and Bellineham. Wash- should eliminate some points on ns rouie ana ana otners to im prove its "revenue-cost ratio." The proposal accompanied an nouncement of the Board's inten tion to extend the line's tempor ary operating certificate five years. A public hearing will be held and arguments heard before any decisions are made, however, a spokesman said. No hearing date was set. The Board said it would also decide whether United Air Lines or West Coast should serve Bel llngham. There is no need for the present service by both lines, the board commented. It also suggested that it might require United to suspend service at Salem, Ore., and add that city to West Coast's route. Points which it may be advis able to drop, a spokesman said, are McMinnville, Roseburg and Grants Pass, Ore., and Port Townsend and Kelso, Wash. Only McMinnville is now served as the other cities lack adequate airport facilities. McMinneville has de veloped too little traffic to justify service, the board said. Spray Machine Blowers Aid In Saving Cherries HOOD RIVER, July 1 OP) Cherry growers, aided by a moderate wind, turned spray machine blowers on their trees again Wednesday to dry the cherries and hold rain damage to a minimum. Reports of splitting came from various parts, of the valley, but damage in general is believed not severe. It was thought for a time that the entire crop was endangered. Wednesday's re ports indicate that some or chards had very light damage while others suffered more ex tensively from yesterday's rains. The crop outlook had been the best in many years. For the past' three years rain In the picking season has ruined the crop. Almost one-third of Canada's surface is covered by forest. mt WALLPAPERS, '. '. WL Wise buyers look for the Imperial ; silver label that says the finest in wallpapers. Guaranteed to with stand room exposure without fad ing and to clean satisfactorily when instructions are followed. 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