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4 The Nawi-Review, Roieburg, Publlihte' Dally tic Sunder by the ., News-Review Company, Inc. l.Urai i.e.. !. i . "'. '"' " tMthun Orafsft. .a4f set .1 M.rck I, Ull CHARLES V STANTON Miter Mamber at the Aitoclot.d Pratt, AtlOCiarion, in. nygn Mrifn w. "-- S. r..l.e., Lu A.iflii. tijlrf. r.rll.... .barf. Orel... U.4.f A..I . iostirrion iates-i. or.,..-B, "'''.t"l'', "' ".v. rr..i " ... ?.'.. , ...,.. i o.u,.. o.....-b, m.u- PINE VERSUS FIR By CHARLES V. STANTON . The South Umpqua's upper watershed is perhaps the, li. - 4. a. Uonifin Tnnut fnr nrncliictioii of susrar nine. in the opinion of Lloyd Hayes, director of the Siskiyou Cascade Research Center. ' The research center, with headquarters at Roseburg, is a branch of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Ex periment Station, headquartered at Portland. It is an agency of the U. S. Forest Service engaged in experimental u n i.miVi (nrliiufrv Hnd various forest rcaeurcu. vuwjciavmB ...v.. protective agencies, the nation's different research centers are making controllea stuuies oi umuer gruwm, and use; developing products from waste materials, study ing manairement urocedure, erosion, land use and many ith The unit at Roseburg recently was given jurisdiction . . , , , tt .it..t..:..t over an experimental ioresi This forest, covering 4,600 standards, approximately iiu.uuu.uw ooara ivn vi umuci The old cruise, however, although the only official estima. tion of the timber stand, included only merchantable tim Tn Inter- vpnm. mills have learned tc use poorer trees and are recovering more lumber from each log, so that recovery runs from 60 to 100 per cent more than the volume originally estimated. Therefore, the South Umpqua Experimental Forest is believed to contain at least 176,000,000 board feet of timber and perhaps as much as 200,uuu,uuu. Pine Species Stud Conducted This particular tract is especially valuable for research purposes because it contains widely, varying characteris tics. It has stands of Douglas fir of uniform age, as well as similar stands of sugar pine. It has stands of mixed suedes and stands thinned bv affording mixed age group. are in one compact area, easily studying the many growth and production factors. These studies have caused Hayes .to become somewhat excited about the possibility of controlled " sugar pine for ests in this region. - ' Hayes envisions a period, possibly a couple of centur ies from now, when the South Umpqua region will be used almost exclusively for controlled production of pine Bpecies, with far higher economic returns than at present. Hayes believes he has conclusive evidence that pine forests will produce far more volume per acre than obtainable from Douglas fir; that pine trees more quick y than fir. while qualities for pattern stock, has than fir. Growth Factors Recorded On one tract, for instance, where fir and pine trees were of the isnme approximate age, 250 years, fir trees averaged 24.4 inches in diameter giving volume of 996 board feet each, while sugar pine trees measured 51 inches and contained 6,799 board feet each. On a second plot, with similar characteristics, fir Irecs were found to be 25.4 inches in diameter, containing 1,121 board feet each, while sugar pines measured 49.3 inches, containing 6,453 feet each. On a third plot, averaging 110 years, fir trees showed 19.5 inches in diameter and 604 board feet volume, While sugar pines had a diameter of 27.7 inches and con tained 1,860 board feet. These studies, Hayes believes, prove conclusively that more wood can be grown per acre by plantings of pine than by plantings of fir. Some problems, however, remain unsolved. Mother Nature seldom puts pines in a clear stand. If a change were made from Nature s plan by controlled jilantings, would growth factors be affected? What would be the effect of diseases to which pines are particularly susceptible? There are several reasons are not found in clear stands, is that pines have large seeds, a favorite food of seed eating rodents. Because it has large seeds, it produces lewer seeds than the Douglas fir. The Douglas fir has more aggressive growing habits pine. These factors, however, may be controlled says Hayes and, if further studies show that clear pine stands bear out present theories, our grandchildren may find great wealth in pure pine stands. Pines grow best at elevations from 1,500 to 3,500 feet, says Hayes, and it might be well for persons planning the planting of farm woodlots, or private owners of Iogged-off lands preparing to start new forests, to investigate the ad visability of substituting pine for fir, if the land is within the belt favorable to rapid growth. The gale wo had December S and 4 last year will go dawn as the Big Wind, I guess. In case you I didn't happen to see the summary of reports in the Forest Log here's ' the gist or it. I Officials of the State Forestry) Department stale that the damage will reach at least a billion feet of timber. The reports are nearly I the same in all regions. . , worst' wind storm in 40 years. . , "Fred Southwick, district ward-i en for the Douglas County Forest Protective Association states the I gale was the worst that has hit his section of the country since he has been there. Fred himself owns tract of timber (in Douglas coun ty I and stales that 30 acres of his piling was blown over. The area is Inaccessible at the present time and when it is opened in the spring it will be too late to salvage the timber since It will have taken on a permanent bend by that time Ore. Wed., Jan. 2Z, 1952 IDWIN L KNAPP Meneear Origan Nawtaapat Publltkart the timber industry. in me eouin umpqua uwirra, acres,' contains, by old cruise fires at various intervals, Because ail these conditions foresters have opportunity for will reach merchantable size sugar pine, with its exceptional far higher stumpage value why pines on the west slopes Hayes says. One such reason and thus crowds out the ENDING BASKET and thus be valueless for piling. "He slates that this is only a sample of what happened else where in his own district Many patches of timber were blown down and Uiousands of individual trees went over. He is predicting (hat his trail maintenance during the coming spring will be the worst that the association has ever en countered. . . "In all areas of the slate the problem of maintaining roads, trails and telephone lines during the coming spring will be a costlv and difficult one. both in state and federal units. In addition to this, many of the unused logging roads which have been a means of ac cess to various areas during the winter have been closed down by timber and probably will not be opened until spring. ; "Not only will the protection! agencies be faced with a difficult problem but the timber sales are 'PI, Fulton Lewis Jr. uU WASHINGTON The United States must adopt posi give us the initiative instead of constantly leaving it with give us the iniative instead world Communism, if our way That is the opinion of retired Lieutenant General Albert C Wed- emcycr, the one-time top military planer whose independence got him in the Administration dog house. Shunted aside to a non- policy, making domestic command, he became disgusted and retired to private life last July. We can no longer tolerate conditions in which the Communist pyromaniacs set fires and we rush with our fire engines first to one part of the globe, then another, then a third," says the general. The decisions as to whether and where and how the major fighting will be done must be made by ourselves, not the enemy." Ucncral Wedcmcycr has been outlining his views on world af fairs, since his retirement, in a series of public addresses which have received virtually no public attention. As rela(ed herein yes terday, he minces no words in making clear his belief that the plight in which we find ourselves today is due directly to the past I mistakes, ot bom omission and commission, of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Among the first things the gen eral would have us do would be lo (ake another careful look at our foreign aid programs and put them on "a realistic, quid pro quo basis." In other words, he ex plains, "all foreign aid given here after by the United Slates should be dispensed selectively and re ciprocally or not at all." We would give aid to other countries, spe cifically including Great Britain. only with a concrete, definite un derstating about what those coun- tries will do to help us combat communism. As to Korea and the Far East. he points out that our forces al ready are committed even though our "present policy denies us mil itary victory. His solution here would be to "create ground forces among those Asiatics who are will ing to light tor their freedoms against those Asiatics who are un fortunate tools of the Soviet." "lnT. , , this category," he says, "there Wenr I Ulton LeWlS DdllX are hundreds of thousands, includ- " . I'D vr o tt n If ine Chiang Kai-shek's forces on AtAK, 7.1? . tU. How Much Aid Could Britain Give U.S. If Korean Truce Collapses? Question In Churchill's Speech By Rl.TON C. FAY AP Military Editor. WASHINGTON (AP) Prime Minister Churchill's d- dress to Congress Thursday how much Rritain could help in applying "prompt, resolute and effective" action against a violation of the proposed Korean truce. Ho said Britain and the would be "our" response should be broken. His statement was generally ac- ccpted as referring to the original proposal of the United States that any truce should be bulwarked by an Implied ultimatum that Red China would be bombed and block- now faced with the problem of salvaging as much of the wind throw as possible. . ." 1 guess you read the Douglas Electric Co op January issue? . v Hic v,. Pulleeze!" fWE SOtdB (V02E ' -ffttSW OF NYCWE. SsrAlv to of constantly leaving it with of life is to survive. Formosa." Such Asiatic units, he says, should be trained and equipped by. us and thrown into battle at the earliest possible time to allow us to pull out American forces. Globally, lays General ' Wcde meycr, "we should put emphasis in our military prparation upon air and sea power that can and will, if war comes, blunt the en emy's advances, 'destroy the en emy's war-making potential and break the enemy's will to fight." He believes this is the only way we can avoid suffering "dispro portionate losses of American man hood" in land-locked struggles at times and places and under con ditions of Soviet, not American, choosing. Among his other suggestions are that we should undertake a posi tive and effective campaign to show the rest of the world the vir tues of the American way of life; 'hat the veil of secrecy be re- moved from international dealings so that our people will know what is going on, and that we do more to encourage regional international pacts looking (oward unified de fensive action against any aggres sion. The general lays particular stress on the importance of an ef fective "psychological warfare" campaign, which, he says, "should be given priority second only to military preparations of which, in deed, they are really an intrinsic part." Brushing aside the Voice of America and other existing pro paganda programs as ineffective and not even worth discussing, he says we should "earmark some of our best minds and leaders and adequate supporC to the job Oth erwise, he says, we will be unable to lake advantage of the "explos sive discontents" which are smoul dering "under the policed surface of the Soviet sphere." To me, at least, his ideas seem to make sense. left open the Question of just United States are agreed this an armistice once arrived at, aded if the Communists launched a new aggression in Korea. Vital QU.itiont raised The I'rime Minister did not spell out the form the promised resolute action would take. That raise such questions as these: 1. How much military force could Britain deeply committed to the de'ense of her own island and West ern Europe and in trouble in Millions Asked For N.W. Water, Power Projects WASHINGTON V More than $261,177,265 is included in Presi dent Truman's budget for Oregon and Washington power and water projects. By far the biggest chunk is the $16,406,865 sought by the Army Engineers to build and maintain more than a half dozen rivers and harbors and flood control projects in the two states. Bonneville Power Administration is down for $67,696,400 to continue construction of Its widening trans mission grid, and an additional $6, 600,000 for operating and mainten ance. President Truman also recom mended legislation now before the House to authorize construction, operation and maintenance of fuel fired electric-generating plants "to make it possible to meet defense power requirements in the Pacific Northwest " "Such plants," he said, "would provide an- early increase in ca pacity and would make more ef fective existing hydroelectric facil ities." The Bonneville request Includes 40 million to continue work on pow er transmission facilities under way and four million for liquidation of contract authorization. The remaining 23 million will go to initiate construction on proj ects for which no money has been previously appropriated. Southwest Oregon; Eugene Reedsport, $108,000; other trans mission facilities, $156,000; McKin ley Gold Beach, $248,000; Middle Fork Willamette River projects, $295,000. Truman Raps Criticism Of All U. S. Employes WASHINGTON ttf President Truman says it is unfair to criti cize all federal employes because ''of the actions of a few." "The overwhelming majority of our federal workers are devoted, hard-working, honest, loyal serv ants of the people," the President said. "They deserve our fullest rec ognition and support." Egypt divrt to the Far East to help support a punitive operation? 2. Did Churchill's statement mean that Britain was prepared to end her recognition of the Chinese Red government by joining in airsea attack on China's harbors, com merce and industry. If for any one or all of various reasons Britain was unable to con tribute more than token support (Churchill noted the U S. is bearing nine-tenths of the burden in the Korean war) the task of punitive measures would fall almost entire ly on this country. More Air Power Needed Fortunately, the requirements .would be greatest in the tynes of armed forces where the United States is strongest, sea and air. The American fleet is the world's largest. The total strength of the United States Air Force is about 80 wings, of which an undisclosed but frac Uonal part are in the Korean War. However, Air Force officials, viewing growing Red air strength in Asa and in Russia, say it isn't enough, that at least 143 wings are needed. On the ground, the United Site has only eight divisions in the Far East, seven of them in action in Korea. There is nothing to indicate an Intention to increase the number of ground units there. That force apparently is consi-j ered adequate to ho'd the line across Korea until a truce is reached or to turn to new tactics If it isn't Moreover, reasons other than tac tical quite possibly may underlie such policy. The broid plan now appears to be a buildup of stra tegic reserve forces at home, rath er than a continued exoansion of ground forces in theaters chosen by Moscow. In The Day's News By PRANK (Continued from Page 1) tent that with the surplus taken off the market the price of potatoes to the consumer remained (rela tively) high. Growers benefited (temporarily) from this situation At first, the government des troyed some potatoes in an effort to get rid of them. But this raised the hair on the back of a lot of American necks. We aren't yet far enough along on the road to so cialism to see food destroyed with out getting roiled about it. bo the (political) government cnangea us tactics, instead ot des troying potatoes outright, it ren dered them unfit, or at least un desirable, for human consumption by dyeing them with a vegetable dye. These potatoes were then sold at a very low price (10c per hun dredweight was about the average for a iong time) for livestock feed. For a while, that bridged the gap wnnout too much of ruckus being raised. BUT Two things, both of them per fectly logical, happened: 1. Finding the support price prof itable, growers continued to pro duce a suiti'LUS ot potatoes. 2 Housewives, seeing potatoes sold at 10 cents per hundredweight for livestock feed while thev oaid often 50 TIMES THAT MUCH for them for human consumption, be came resentful. Something else happened: It began to cost a whale of a lot of money to. support the price of potatoes. The money it cost was TAXPAYER money. First house wives became resentful because of the price differential. Then tax payers became resentful because it seemed that thir mony was being poured into a bottomless hole. SO The (political) government got scared, and ran for cover. In an effort to get loose from a Claim Pouncey Legal Resident Of Drain DRAIN Preceding the an nouncement of canaidate Vernon N. Pouncey for the nomination the office of sheriff, there has arisen a question as to the legiti macy of his nomination as it is believed by some that he is not a legally registered ,-resident o I Douglas County. The nominators wish to state in his behalf that Mr. Pouncey has not moved to Coquille as is being reported, but only as a temporary "loan out" to their police depart ment in order to further his train ing in a department of which is considered "ideal" by s t a t a and federal officials. Mr. Pouncey is still legally registered as a voter in Drain precinct. And has his le gally established "postoffice ad dress" as required by the Oregon Election Laws. We refer to Oregon Election Laws Code No. C-81-108. "That if the secretary of state shall deem it necessary, he may, at his dis cretion at any time prior to an election, transmit to the psotmas terl a list of the names who ac cording to the registration records, receive their mail at such post office, with the request that such Dostmaster shall rnrrpet such list- by eliminating therefrom the names of those persons who no longer receive their mail at such postoffice." Further reference to Oregon El ection Laws Code No. C-81-505. "that a temporary Ianse of regis tration by reason of change of re- j sidence or failure to vote in the; prescribed number of elections, shall NOT constitute a lapse oil membership; if the candidate was ' in fact a member of the political : party through which he seeks the nomination and was not a mem ber of any other party at such time." Mr. Pouncey is preparatorily ; backed by the United States Re form Committee. (In Drain, Yon calla, and Elkton, known as Re-1 call Clarence Leonard Committee.) 1 and the Oregon Truckers Associa- i tion, of which he is an active mem- Der. IRENE McCONON j Association Secretary Drain, Oregon Loss Reported On Vets' Home Loan Mortgages WASHIXGON m The Vet-' erans Administration reported Tuesday that the government has ; lost only $13,591,000 as a result of i defaults on the $16,403,000,000 worth of veterans home loan mortgages it has guaranteed. Since the program got underway in 1944-45. the VA said, 2,643,000 loans had been approved up to -Dec. 25, 1951, and laims had been p-id against the VA guaranty on 12,586. i Officials told a reporter the num-! ber of new defaults per month has been decreasing steadily since July 1951, with the December total of 4.047 being the lowest for any month since December, 1948. The number of claims paid as a result of defaults since the pro-, gram was started amount to slight ly less than one-half of one per ' cent, the officials said. They added that the net amount paid on the total initial principal of $16,403. 000.000 amounts to less than $1 on each $1,000 of principal. JINKINI situation that was getting too hot to handle, it crawled out of the potato business altogether, with drawing support from potato prices and saying to the grower: "You're on your own now. You'U have to sink or swim by your own efforts." BUT Again something happened. With the government out of it, the po tato market righted itself and came back into an approximate balance. With supply reduced by withdrawal of the artifically guar anteed support price, potato prices rose in tne open market. That created another political situation. Consumers began to complain. Potato consumers FAR OUTNUMBER potato growers. The (political) government got scared (with an election coming up; ana stepped oack into tne picture with a price freeze on potatoes. The result of that move is very recent history and doesn't need to be gone into here What we have seen (in the case of the potato) is the COMPLETION of a vicious political circle. Here is what I believe: In the case of the potato, the vic ious political circle has been com pleted. EVENTUALLY, the vicious cir cle will he completed in the case of ALL THE OTHER subsidized beneficiaries of socialized govern ment. Why? ' Here's why: There is no such thing as some thing for nothing. You can't lift yourself by your bootstraps. You can't vote EVERYBODY rich. It will work for a while, but it won't work forever. i 2 .: J If Carl J. Peetz 1 1 tm41ry M 920 S. Stephen. I ' j Phone 3-5333 I 1 LL.- J'ftTfCLJ YOUR MOTOR Purrs Like a Kitten . . . when you let our factory trained mechanics care your car. Let us give you A COMPLETE MOTOR TUNE -UP aif MIRACULOUS HEALING IS NOT FOR TODAY. ARTICLE NO. 2 After making a few explanations and clarifying the issue in article No. 1, we now come to the first argument to show that miracles have ceased. The need for miracles have ceased; hence, they are no long er in operation. A study of God's Word will reveal that the pur pose of miracles was to confirm the word of the speaker. Please turn to Ex. 4:1-9, 29, 30 and you will find that when Moses work ed miracles in Egypt with his rod, he did so that they might be lieve that the Lord God had appeared unto him. Again, in Ex. 14:22-31 we learn that "Isreal saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and his servant Moses," (vs. 31). When Jesus gave the apostles the Great Commission as re corded in Mark lfi-15-90 hn InM thom tn an infn all 4U and preach the gospel. This gospel was a new message, and its,V truthfulness had to be established. We find in verse twenty that r they went and preached everywhere, "the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following them." These signs and wonders were the means of showing that this gospel 'is not of man, neither by man" but a revelation from heaven given by inspired men. Now in Heb. 2:3, 4 we read, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation: which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing him witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the' Holy Ghost, according to His own will." We have learned in Mark 16:20 that the signs followed for the purpose of confirm ing the word. In Heb. 2:3, 4 the word was confirmed. We see, therefore, by the time the New Testament was written, it had been erified as being true. If there were a new message being given today, we would expect to see signs and wonders to prove its truthfulness. Since we have no new truth being revealed, we do not need the ac companying signs. . Our evidence is found in the written word. See John 20:30, 3) "These (signs) are written that you might believe that Jesus is th Chris1, the son of God." The written miracles of the Bible are sufficient to convince us of the sonship of Jesus. Our faith in Hun comes by hearing the Word of God, Rom. 10:17. The Scriptures are sufficient to make a man "perfect, thorough ly furnished unto all good works," 2 Tim. 3:16, 17 If signs were given today to establish the truthfulness of tur modera preachers, which one would they establish as being true? One, claiming the power of miracles, teaches there is only one peison in the Godhead; another, claiming the same power, says there are three persons in the Godhead Still an other, claiming he has this power, teaches we have living apos tles today, and is opposed by the rest. Thus, we could go on and on. If one says all the others are fakes, he rocks the boat and is liable to drown himself, for each has barrels of testimon ials to show that he acts by the power of God. If all are right, they make God the author of confusion. God Is not the author of confusicn: hence, these claims are false. Since .he gospel has been preached and has been confirmed by signs following, and since its truthfulness need not be re confirmed, we readily see the purpose of miracles has ceased; therefore, miracles also have ceased. Any healing done today is by natural means. J. C. CLIFFORD, Minister Church of Christ Donald Dams, Singer, . Diet In Hotel Room " LINCOLN, Neb.wv Donald Dam 33. Metropolitan Opera Company tenor, was tound dead in hu hotel room here Monday. He died a tew hours betore he was scheduled to appear at the University ot ISeDraska Coliseum in the company's performance ot "Die ledermaus," in wlucb Dam had tne leading role. Deputy sneritt Leonard Schater Uxed the cause ot deatn as coro nary trouble. Associates said the singer had sutlered a heart attack last week in Waukegan, 111. VJOQK HORSE, FIRST CLASS That's what you'll christen this new lightweight 9 hp Intermediate Disston Chain Saw, the DA-211, when you see the work it does with such little effort. 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