Vigil Over Timber Will Be
Kept On Umpqua Forest This
Fire Season By 36 Lookouts
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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