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By CHARLES V. STANTON
Traveling north on the Pacific highway, have you ob
served the difference in loads hauled by log trucks in the
Roseburg area as compared with those around Kugcne and
Albany?
In Douglas county an average load is three logs. Oc
casionally you see a truck carrying only one log, but such
a monster that it constitutes a legal weight limit. You will,
of course, sometimes see a truck carrying five or six small
logs, but such loads are infrequent. However,' as you travel
north you see more and more logs per load six, eight,
ten logs per truck. Naturally, you observe some big logs,
but the average number of small logs going to mills is far
higher than in Douglas county.
Why should this be true? Lane and Linn counties have
lots of timber much of it virgin, mature, old-growth tim
ber. Why, then, should so many small logs be going to
mills?
Persons who heard Regional Forester Andrews speak
Monday at the chamber of commerce forum luncheon and
at the evening conference with operators know at least part
of the answer. There are other factors, but one of the prin
cipal reasons Willamette valley mills are getting small logs,
while old-growth mature timber may be seen on the sky
line, lies in the lack of access roads.
Here in Douglas county we may anticipate the same
condition within a very few years unless action is forth
coming soon on an improved access road program. We are
critically overcutting lowland timber while removal of trees
from high areas is far behind sustained yield allowable cut.
Unless we can balance the cutting program, our industry
will become more and more seasonal, with reductions in
both volume and quality.
More Timber Available
Lowland timber, known to the industry as "face" tim
ber, has a varied ownership pattern. Much of it is pri
vately owned, intermingled with Oregon and California land
grant tracts. A large part of the face timber can be logged
and transported during winter months.
Upland timber, coming from the high Cascades, can be
logged only during a comparatively short season five or
six months at the most. Snow handicaps transportation dur
ing winter months.
The best management plan calls for upland logging dur
ing the summer months, and lowland shows in the winter.
Were we able to follow such pattern, we could balance our
cutting program.
We have existing sawmill capacity sufficient to handle
our allowable cut. ' The Umpqua national forest could sup
ply approximately 100,000,000 board feet more per year than
now being cut, providing we had access to the timber. But,
because we can't get that timber now, we are drawing on
face timber to supply our mills, thus overcutting on the low
lands approximately in equal volume to the unused surplus
on the national forest.
Future Volume Endangered
Without access roads into upland timber within the next
few years, we face serious curtailment of timber production
volume. We will be in the same condition as our neigh
boring counties to the north, largely dependent upon low
land second-growth trees trees which should not be cut
for another 30 or 40 years. Yet only a few miles away old
growth forests, overripe and deteriorating from nge and dis
ease, will remain uncut. If we wait until our face timber
is gone before getting access into high limber our logging
industry will be limited to a half-year, or less, while we will
have insufficient raw material to support the installed
sawmill capacity.
A good example may be found in the Portland area,
where large mills have been closed and dismantled despite
the fact that only a few miles away, in the Clackamas and
Mt. Hood forests, mature timber is deteriorating rapidly.
The forest access road problem is acute in Oregon. It
is time Congress was changing its ideas of pork barrel man
agement of the public domain and substituting businesslike,
realistic policies.
Hearing thai five members of
the New York State legislature are
here studying Oregon highways, I
was reminded of an editorial I
clipped from the Wyoming County
Times (N. Y.) which comes to
this ex-New Yorker, Jan. 4 issue,
about the GOOD HOADS Associa
tion. It seems that 25 years ago
when the first N. Y. Slate gaso
line tax was imposed the motorists
of the State were assured the
money would be used for highway
purposes. . . . After a bit the
money was diverted into utber
channels and the practice was con
tinued by succeeding administra
tions. Says the editor of the Wyoming
County Times:
Another movement, this one de
signed to eventually become an
amendment to the State Constitu
tion, to insure that funds collected
from motorists for auto registra
tion or operator license fees and
from gasoline taxes will be used
for nothing but highway purixises
was instituted at t ho first annual
convention of the New York (lood
Roads association at Syracuse, re
cently. .... The Good Roads
organization, apparently has the
idea that the state can shift over
to a pay-as-you-go road basis. It
probably will take a bit longer
than that but if New York's high
ways can be put on that basis in
ten years the motorist will then
get a break.
As far as taxes go the motorist
has been really Retting slammed
land taxes the same as anyone
TO TIMBER
Bg Vmhnett S. Martini
I for years and years. He pays his
lana laxes uie same as anyone
else and he has new taxes slapped
on his car and ils operation al
most every time he turns around.
And, in return for this, he gets
man-killing roads. We mean that
literally New York's highway
system in general is man killing.
One ride upstate, and not so very
far upstate, will convince just
about anyone of the truth of this
statement.
The peopleof the slate are en
titled to good roads. They're pay
ing for good mails and they're not
getting them.
Let's all do something about it.
So the people of New York Slate
are doing something about it. Wy
oming county was the 53rd chap
ter oi me l.ood Hoads associa
tion to he instituted in 14 months.
( harles II. Sells executive di- j
rector of the association, speaking I
in Warsaw, (N, Y.), where L'(K) j
charter members were to begin j
the work, said: as minted in the !
limes' report of Ihe meeting.
Minhciship in the New York j
Good Koads Association is open to j
all citizens of the stale who are j
at least 18 years of ace, who sub
scribe to the principle that good I
roads are needed and who pay j
their annual dues of one dollar, i
"It should be made clear," said
Mr. Sells, "that the New York I
Good Heads association in a pco- I
pie's organization and, inorder to '
keep it so, no person who is em- j
ployed by government or by any j
company or industry interested in I
STUBBORN'
MV BoTrt iARE
In The Day's News
By FRANK
(Continued from page Onei
wide probe of armed services train
ing centers."
Personally, I think the charge
that the air force is "greedily grab
bing" the cream of the manpower
is tommyrot.
Who made the law?
Why, CONGKKSS, of course.
If Ihe law isn't good, the fault
lies with those who made it. In
stead of yelling bloody murder, the
members of congress should MAKE
A BUTTER LAW.
One personal gripe I've had with
congress for years is that it cries
and cries because the President
spends too much money. WHO AP
PROPRIATES THE MONEY? Con
gress does. If congress, which un
der the constitution is Ihe keeper
of the purse, didn't appropriate the
money, the President couldn't
spend it.
This college basketball bribery
scandal, which follows scandals in
fool ball and baseball, has a per
fectly logical cause. The cause is
this: Under our spectator sports
svstem, sport events BRING IN
TOO MUCH MONEY.
Too much money is like too much
power. It CORRUPTS.
Russian Attack On Tito's
Yugoslavia Would Likely
Touch Off World War III
Ry DeWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Yugoslavia is definitely spotlighted as the most danger
ous area in Europe from the standpoint of being the poten
tial focal zone of another war.
Marshal Tito's repeated warnings that Russia was pre
paring to strike at his country through neighboring satel
lites has been followed by a declaration from Secretary of
State Acheson to the effect that any Hed attack on Yugo
slavia would dangerously strain the fabric of world peace.
Put in less euphemistic terms, this means that if Rus
sia should commit aggression against Yugoslavia, it might
produce war. I
This warning collies after a long
period of Soviet maneuvering ami
Russo Yogoslav tension which
scarcely could proceed much fur
ther without an explosion.
The conflict grows out of General
Tito's revolt against Moscow's
domination of his country. The
marshal refused to delegate Yugo
slavia's sovereignty to Moscow and
inaugurated a policy of national
ism. This glaring deviation from
the Bolshevist brand of commu
nism, which makes Moscow the rul
ing power over all Rod countries,
has come to be known as "Tito
ism." Revolt Spreadinq
And the revolt hasn t stopped
with Yugoslavia. Powerful Com
munist parties in some countries
like Italy and France have become
impregnated with "Titoism," and
it even is penetrating satellite
states Czechoslovakia, for exam
ple. Moscow has watched this de
velopment with mingled anger and
anxiety. Obviously "Titoism" was
a threat to the structure of the
big Communist bloc which Russia
had built, and which it expected
to continue building.
Accordingly Moscow started pow
erful cotinler measures. T h e s e
included efforts to create a revo
lution within Yugoslavia itself, and
harassment of Tilo bv his satellite
neighbors Hungary, Romania.
Bulgaria and Albania. Satellite
troops have been masked at his
borders, and manv untoward in
cidents have been reported.
Moscow has proceded prcsisletit-
road construction may hold any
elective office in the State associ
ation of any of its various county
chapters.
JENKINS
Even the case of the basketball
player who wouldn't be bribed and
spilled the story leaves me a little
cold. His admirers went out an,
raised a lot of money to REW ARD
HIM FOR HIS HONESTY.
I suppose I'm too old-fashioned,
but I don't think anybody shoulU
oe paiu mont-y merely ior oeing
honest. People OUGHT to be hon
est. A test engineer at the navy's
guided missiles base at Point
Mugu, down below Ventura, tells a
reporter:
"Space (interplanetary) travel is
closer than most people realize."
In support of his statement, he
describes plans for a five-stage
rocket which he says could carry
two men to the moon, land there
anil return. He added: "This de
sign, while not yet in production,
is practical with the application of
techniques already at our disposal. '
The ."spaceship," he said, would
tower 325 feet into the air above
the launching site, would weigh
360.000 pounds and attain a speed
of 25,000 miles per hour.
When they call for volunteers to
man that monster, I think I'll pass.
I like to travel, but not that fast
or that far.
ly but cautiously with this program,
apparently being careful not to
make any rash step which couldn't
be retraced.
And what is the western powers'
special interest in Tito, who still
clings to his own brand of com
munism? Well, he has firm con
trol of a powerful state which lies
against the Aegean sea and so is
a gateway to Ihe Mediterranean.
Yugoslavia could be a great barrier
against the right wing of the west
ern powers in Europe.
Moreover, Titoism renresents a
i step away from Muscovite Bolshe
vism, it could be the ferment
which would disrupt the Soviet sa
tellite bloc.
Marshal Tito is the proud posses
sor of the second most powerful
army in Europe Russia having
the first. The Yugoslav fighting
force comprises 32 divisions, total
ing about 700.000 men. The troops
are well trained and are soecially
prepared for guerrilla warfare a
bie item these riavs Tiln' niitil.irv '
weakness is in air power, heavy
tanks and heavy artillery. And of
course he lacks economic resources
for ma tor conflict.
The fcyearold marshal is said
to be held in high respect as a
fighter by his men. He always has
been an active leaA'r on the bat
tlefield, and fought in the last war
Tito's personal position appears
to be strong on the whole with his
people. He not only has the loyalty
of the army, but his minister of
interior, Alexander Ranknvic. has
the security police well in hand.
Tht the highly independent and
hanr. boiled Tito is not a man
to be regarded lightly by a po-
tential aggressor. And bv the same .pending clarification by her attor
token he would make a nowerful ney ot the loss of nationality state
ally for friendly nations. 1 ment.
1.AE4 To triw,
2.
'COUNT TO
Constance Keene,
Pianist, Dated
Here On March 3
Constance Keene, gifted young
American pianist, is the next art
ist scheduled to come to Roseburg
in the Community Concert scries.
She will appear on the stage of
the Junior high school auditorium
March 3.
Miss Keene has been winning
j prizes since she was a liftle girl.
At seven she won the gold medal
award of the National Federation
of Music Clubs ami then kept right
on winning that same award for
four successive years. During this
period she also received the gold
medal of the New York Music Week
association and a recital prize of
fered by the New York Madrigal
society. Finally, ready to start on
her career, she was launched with
the coveted Nautnburg Foundation
award and its prize ot a New York
recital at the Town Hall.
She was born in New York in
1923. At 13 her high school music
teacher brought her to Abram Cha
sms, who was so impressed that
he offered Constance a scholar
ship and taught her composition
as well as piano. This work was
supplemented by intensive course
in counterpoint.
In the summer of 1941, Serge
Kotissevzky gave her a person
ally contributed scholarship at the
Berkshire Music center. The
Naumburg Foundation award fol
lowed ami in the autumn of 1943
Miss Keene made her formal debut
at the Town. Hall in New York.
She participated in the Bach-Mo-lart
festival in Tanglewood in 1945,
and climaxing her 1945-46 season,
scored a triumph in Springfield,
Mass. She has made many radio
and personal appearances since.
2 Stepbrothers,
Arrested, Admit
20 Burglaries
LONGVIEW. Wash. (-P) Ap
proximately 20 burglaries, scat
tered from Vancouver, Wash., to
Seattle, were cleared by Longview
police following 12 consecutives
hours of questioning two Long
view stepbrothers.
The men, Charles F. Wessman,
25, and Emile Joseph Plourde Jr.,
18. were arrested by officers about
Monday, shortly after the safe
burglary of the Longview Concrete
Pipe Co., police Chief James D.
Skaggs said.
Chief Skaggs said they had been
under suspicion since the first lo
cal burglary on Jan. 1 when the
safe of the Longview American
Legion club was carted awav.
Since then, seven successful safe
jobs were carried out in Long
view, another in Kelso and others
in Chehalis, Woodland, Vancouver
and Seattle.
Break in the case came when
police were canvassing the city
early Monday and could not find
the auto the brothers were known
to be driving
Less thau four hours after the
concrete firm burglary, police dis
covered the auto parked in front
of their Longview residence. The
brothers were brought in sepa
rately for questioning and admitted
the 20 burglaries, Skaggs said.
Oregon-Born Japanese
Girl Loses Citizenship
PORTLAND IT) A petition
for restoration of U. S. citzenshm
was denied Yukio Sato, an Oregon-born
Japanese girl, here by
federal .ftidge James Alger Fee.
She said in the petition that she
went to Japan in 1940 and voted is
i . m i
the 1946 Japanese election becauseland doig bodily harm to tne carl
ni ti--iiMM ti in. mutton nor imw-
ail if she refused her foodTMosser family Of five from At
ration would be lost.
In 194S, Miss Sato said she ap
plied to the U. S. consul for a pass,
port for return to the V. S but
that instead he issued a loss of
nationality certificate. he said she
was bom in Ontario iriP-1926.
Judge Fee denied the petition
WASHINGTON Ever since last May, President Tru
man has been sitting tight on three lush appointments
paving S17.500 a year each that have hungry lame duck
politicians drooling.
The jobs are on the new court , very hopeful. They are on rec
of military appeals. A little known 0rd, however, with strong recom
facet of the law passed by Con- mendations on behalf of Ihe men
gress to modernize military justice ' and women in the military,
the same law which permits en-1 Military leaders and spokesmen
Ull lllllliaijr vuui i-iiipi anal yaiivio.
The three-member court of mil
itary appeals is a sort of supreme
court for military personnel. As a
court of last resort, the appoint
ments should be made on the basis
ot extensive legal competence
preferably federal judges in the
opinion of several outstanding bar
associations in the country. With
mobilization plans calling for a
3,500,000 man military force, the
need for top caliber men in the
posr is obvious.
So far nothing but rumors have
come from the White House re
garding the appointments. And, un
fortunately, they all hinge on the
horrible prospect mat tne Presi
dent is going to appoint three pol
iticians who are owed a favor by
the Democrats.
The American Bar association 1
has made recommendations. The
special committee on military jus
ice of the New York County law
yers association has also been m
the forefront of the fi'jht to secure
competent men for the jobs. As
of the end of January, of this year,
the White House had failed to con
sult either of these organizations
or any other association in the le
gal profession.
Richard II. Wells, a member of
the special committee on military
justice of the association of the
bar in New York, recently uncorked
a blast at the White House re
garding the three - man military
court. He is the way he puts it:
"The administration can give an
example of real leadership if it
makes the sacrilice, which it asks
so many others to make, of putting
aside personal and political ad
vantage in the interest of the na
tion. It can do this if it makes
sure that the judges, who will ex
ercise power over the lives and
destinies of the young people in
blue and khaki, are great judges
in the pattern of Holmes, Cardoza
and Patterson, and not the political
hacks and lame ducks who would
turn military and naval justice
into a pork barrel."
There is more than a hint from
the White House that the three
high salaried jobs will be filled
with an eye on the 1952 elections.
Such a prospect has disturbed the
House Armed Services commit
tee. Members insist that the suc
cess or failure of the new court
and its many reforms of military
justice depend on the character
and capability of the three named
for the judicial posts.
The new military code of justice
becomes effective on May 31, 1951.
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top legal taieni in tne nauon, weiii.
into rewriting the code to give the
fighting men and women a better
break in military courts. Trial runs
with enlisted men on court marsnal
boards have proved effective. All
that remains for Mr. Truman to
do is name the three judges.
As of this writing he has not
consulted the American Bar asso
ciation, olher than to acknowledge
the list of recommended indivi-,
duals sent to the White House. In
view of the President's appoint-1
ments to Ihe Supreme Court of the
United States, legal leaders in
Washington and elsewhere are not
Juvenile Court Takes
Woman's Third Child
i
PORTLAND (JP) The third
child of Mrs. Eleanor Echelburger
Valley became a juvenile court
ward when a baby sitter turned the
two-year-old boy, Dennis, over to
Waverly baby home. 1
Police Capt. Elizabeth Moorad
obtained a warrant charging Mrs.
Valley with contributing to the de
linquency of minors by reason of
neglect.
It couldn't be served, though, be
cause Mrs. Valley wasn't home.
Neighbors said they thought she
had gone to join vr husband, a
soldier at Kort Lewis.
She married the soldier. La
Verne Valley, two weeks ago
and left her two youngest children
with a baby sitter while she went
on a weekend honeymoon. She
took Dennis with Jier. The baby
sitter turned the children over to i
police when the mother failed to
return.
Another baby sitter reported
Dennis was left with her for a
"few hours." Mrs. Valley had not
returned, however, .when police
arrived to serve the warrant.
Legal Move Made To Save
Murderer From Death
OKLHOMA CITY (.V) De
fense attorneys have filed a mo
tion in U. S. district court asking
that the admitted slayer of six per
sons be judged mentally incompe
tent to assist in his defense.
The move if successful would
save William E. Cook, 23. Joplin
Missouri ex-convict, from a possi
ble death penalty under the Lind
bergh kidnap act.
Cook is charged with kidnaping
wood. III. He admitted kidnaping
Ihe Mosser family Dec. 30 in Okla
homa county and after forcing i
them to ride with him at gun point
in a three-day trip of terror, killed
them. He dumped their bodies in I
an abandoned mine at Joplin, Mo.
Cook also knitted slaying Rob
ert Dewey. SeatUe. in California I
after he killed the Mossers. He ,
was captured in Mexico Jan. 14.
partment of Defense have failed
publicly to suggest capable candi
dates for the Ihree posts. They
owe the enlisted personnel of the
nation their support in keeping the
jobs out of the hands of political
hacks.
With thousands of eighteen year
old boys coming into the service,
the need for wise justice in hand
ling their troubles is apparent. It
is apparent to the mothers and
fathers sending their sons into bat
tle. It is apparent to the Congress,
which approved the rewriting" of !
the military code. It is apparent
to the various legal associations. :
It should be apparent to the White
House. I
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June t, 1918
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