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CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L KNAPP
Editor Mono9r
Member of the Associated Press, Oreon Newspaper Publisher!
Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations
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FUTURE TIMBER CAPITAL
I By CHARLES
' Here in Douglas County we have opportunity to remain
' forever the nation's timber capital if we will do gome long-
' ranee planning and then execute those plans.
We are now following the general history of the timber
: industry "cut out and get out." We have this advantage
that more than one-half our
is. therefore, managed on a
We have another advantage in that we are getting bet
ter utilization of saw timber
Prior to the time the industry entered this county, eco
nomic values permitted saw
grade methods. In other
best trees. Low grades of lumber were a drug on the mar
ket. Many mills went bankrupt because they couldn't sell
their common lumber. But today's market permits dis
posal of almost anything mills can cut even white-speck
and doty material. .
This better utilization offers another interesting point
in favor of our industry.
The allowable cut from
mates made at a time when hirh-grading was the rule,
' Onlv th best trees were cruised as merchantable. The
. volume of stand was estimated
observed bv the industry.
Under today's methods the actual utilization runs far
ahead of the old cruise figures. In some cases the yield
han hfwn as much as 100
nearly all cases it has been from 25 to 40 per cent higher,
The U. S. Forest Service recently ordered new appraisal
of timber stands. If. as may be expected, estimates are
based on modern utilization,
cut for this area should be
feet per year.
Mutt Restock Private Supply
But if Douglas County is to
nation's timber Droducer. it
. plenish its private timber supply. We are rapidly deplet
ing the' stock on private lands cutting nearly five times as
fast as we should. We are cutHnt many forests 25 to 50
years too soon: removing t' 1 just at the time they are
reachin? their best rate of
Restocking logged-off lands is a "must" if we are to
look toward a permanent industry. But even more rnv
nnrtanfc i thn need to tret submareinal land into new for
est just as quickly as possible. We have thousands of
acres of land better suited for growing trees than for any
other purpose.
Wn could be irrowinir timber a lot faster than our pres.
ent rate of cut if we put those
production. Furthermore, we
rnmincr of the duId industry
years in the future. The pulp industry will permit con
tinuous income from the properly managed farm woodlot or
small timber tracts, while, at
be growing saw timber for future harvest.
Can Improve Conditions
Tt U entirely tiossible for
timber volume and quality by
maximum.
nniw a few vearn aa
ber industry would never move into Douglas County be
cause too much of our timber was overripe, ure-aamageu,
and in light stands. Many sections of our timber lands, now
Koin lnofroH nrnf itjihlv. enuld not have shown a profit dur
ing th Hnv nf hlh-radin.
properly restocked and managed, can be made to produce
far more wood per acre than they now are yielding. As
we remove our overripe timber much of it deteriorating
and diseased and replace it with young, vigorous, mim
forest growth, we will be increasing stumpage and quality
for the second cutting;
This long-range plan for tree farming should have the
attention and cooperation of all industry, business and the
public. Business and industry are dependent upon the for
est resource. That dependence will continue. Therefore we
should be looking ahead to the time the existing resource
is deputed. We should be getting a second crop well on
the way.
The public welfare also is
dustry. Therefore the public could well at ford to employ
farm foresters to aid private landowners in management
of existing woodlots and the growing of new forests on sub
marginal lands.
There is no good reason why Douglas County should
not continue forever to be the Nation's timber capital if we
take advantage of opportunity.
a- u. -i ... . .
, nu in.. si.iui.cri in mo uiougnu ,
SLVrPl9 .."?.0,
J - C. (-.- awvut 1 V 1U1
a while. Then one morning some
body does. In the case of the county
library project people in various
parts of the county wished some
action would be taken. Then Mrs.
Hal Schilti, wife of the editor of
t e MYRTLE CHEEK MAIL, de
cided to start something by calling
a meeting in Roscburg. She chose
a day on which It would be con
venlcnt for members of the County
Court to be there; invited the li
brary boards and city officials of
Douglas county communities; fur
nished newspapers with publicity,
and hoped there would be enough
to fill the jury room last Friday
afternoon.
The Jury room overflowed and
the meeting convened in the court
V. STANTON
timber is federally owned and
perpetual cutting basis.
than has occurred elsewhere.
timber to be cut only by high
words, loggers took only the
public lands is based on est.
on standards of usage then
tier cent above estimates. In
the allowable sustained yield
unned by many millions of
retain its No. 1 place as the
must start immediately to re'
growth.
poor agricultural lands into
would ie preparing ior m.
which, at best, is only a iew
the same time, tne lana can
us to increase greatly our
utilizing our acreage to the
lumbermen predicted the tim
But those same lands, if
dependent on the timber in
ENDING
BASKET
room. Sixteen communities were
r.llr.s,.rf. Commissioner. Lvnn
Beckley and Elmer Metzger were
present, asking and answering
questions with geniality, but in no
wise committing the court In any
way.
The state librarian. Miss Eleanor
Stephens, and her administrative
assistant Miss Eloise E b e r t
brought a film showing how Ala
bama handles county library work;
they also described how other Ore
gon counties had taken the prep
alory steps: and answered many
questions from the floor.
The temporary chairman Mrs.
Schiltz, a bit overwhelmed by the
success of her venture, graciously
accepted the chairmanship of a
committee of five, and was empow
ered to select the four to help her.
A larger committee made up of
one member from each commun-
He
Fulton Lewis Jr.
WASHINGTON Congressional committees have been
blistering the Pentagon so often about waste in defense
spending that it has even affected military commanders as
far away from Washington as California. Congress may be
cracking the whip too hard.
military commander, U.S.
China Lake, California.
On March 4, he issued a
immediate attention to economy of operation. The directive
was attached to bulletin boards
tains a formula for economy
Output Results
I Equals- Equals
Input Costs
"E slands for efficiency, econ
omy, effectiveness and excellence.
W.X.Y.Z, etc., stand for the cost
in money and expenditures of tal
ent associated with the direct sup
port of A. B. C, etc. M.N.O., etc.,
stand for the cost and billets in
volved in indirect support opera
tions such as administration, sup
ply, maintenance, transportation,
community, etc.
Then, by way of explanation, the
economy minded commander add
ed:
'Evaluate effectiveness and cost
of services rendered in support of
the technical program to the end
that optimum service may be ren
dered. Reduce cost of operating
services, but not at the expense of
lowering E. Use maintenance funds
saved to cut down overhead and
to reduce large back log of vital
station maintenance,
pick u rest
After three more pages of ec
onomy gobbledy-gook, the comman-
utr iiisiruL'is lilt; miiiuis uu lite
post to take the economy formula
home and explain it to their wives.
Well, it's a nice try and prob
ably worth the price af a medium
sized battleship just to hear the
sailors explaining to their wives
what -the commander has in mind.
And It will please the Pentagon.
Nobody will ever understand it,
but the charts accompanying the
formula are impressive looking,
even if It did cost considerable to
print and distribute the directive,
and how to save money.
The sailors at China Lake nroh-
ably feel just like an official at
the federal correctional institution
which I shall not identify for ob
vious reasons. For a year now this
official has been trying to get Os
car Ewing's federal security agen
cy to quit sending him bv first-
class mail an 18-page, bi monthly
report that keeps him up to the
minute on who is shipping raw
oysters, clams and mussels in the
united Mates and Canada.
Nobodv at this nui'tlculm Insti
tution, or at any of the 25 others
of this type in the United States, is
deeply interested in oyster, clam
or mussel shipments in the U.S.
and Canada. Nobody here goes
fishing, at least so far at thn u m-H.
en knows, and nobody there buvs
any raw oysters, clams or mussels
direct from any of the sea-going
fleets. They don't normally have
them for dinner, either.
The 18-page report from Ewing's i
ity was also appointed to pass
along the information received
from the speakers that dav and to
stimulate interest in a "Friends of
the (county) Library" activity such
as has been successful elsewhere.
The committee of five will gather
data for a specific plan to pre
sent to the County Court for con
sideration at the earliest oppor
tunity. I have a feeling that Douglas
County is a long step nearer to
having a county library! What do
YOU think about the idea? And
wouldn't YOU like to be a "Friend
of th (county) Library," toot
Left Something Behind
Here is what happened to the
Naval Ordnance Test Station,
five page directive demanding
all over the navy post. It con
that goes like this:
A-B-C-D- etc
Equals
$Plus T) (W-X-Y-Z-te.) (M-N-O-P)
office is printed on expensive pa
per, so the prison official thought
that since he had no use for the
document both money and paper
could be conserved. But he can't
get off the FSA mailing list. He's
been beeseching the FSA to skip
him now for almost a year and
the FSA keeps writing that he will
be dropped from the mailing list.
But he isn't, and he's beginning
to feel trapped, as though the FSA
is closing in on him. All it would
take now to drive him into the
woods is to see the oyster fleet
sail down a mountain side and stop
at his door with the latest report
on where it bas been for the past
two months.
There is, of course, and even
more direct approach to govern
ment waste. Byron E. Bushnell,
who operates Dustiness Metal In
dustries at Tampa, Florida, got a
letter recently from Secretary of
Commerce Charles Sawyer.
Sawyer is circularizing all busi
nesses in the country, asking them
to mail any suggestions on how to
increase production to a new agen
cy he has set up in the Department
of Commerce. As soon as Sawyer
gets a bundle of ideas he says he
will issue periodic reports that will
be sent to all the firms cooperating
with him.
The Secretary of Commerce
wants each business firm to em
ploy one man to handle the sug
gestions. He says it will improve
the nation's productivity.
Mr. Bushnell answered the sec
retary's letter. He suggested that
the best way to initiate economy
and aid productivity would be to
abolish the agency Sawyer has just
set up.
Hear Fulton Leiuis Daily
On KRNR, 9:15 P.M.
Volunteer Workers Class
Will Begin Wednesday
Dr. John L. Haskins, manager of
the Roscbur? Veteras Hospital,
anounced today that the semi-annual
Veterans Administration and
indoctrination course for volunteer
workers will bo held Wednesday
from 9:45 p.m. until 4 p.m. in the
recreation building.
The course is being given for per
sons wishing to become volunteers.
They will assist in the recovery of
hospitalized veterans.
Through the indoctrination, vol
unteers will become acquainted
with the administration's program :
and staff. It is designed also to
provide basic information that win
assist the worker in future work.
Volunteers may contact the hos
pital representative of the organ
nation to wliich they belong or
Robert P. Kidder, chairman of the
volunteer service program at the
hospital.
CAS KILLS FOUR
DINSLAKEN, Germany (.fi A
chlorine gas container exploded in
a celluloie factory at nearby Wal
sum Friday, killing four workmen
and injuring 110 others.
A,
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
case in Southern California, it Is
reaching for ownership of ALL the
water.
It seemi to me It's about time
to stop the fedTal government be
fore it gets TOO big.
This morning's Portland Oregon
ian says:
"If it is unconstitutional for the
legislature to fix minimum charges
for bartering services, how then
may the state control milk prices?
"The question naturally rises
from the decision of the Oregon
supreme court the other day tnat
the 1945 law setting minimum fees
for barbering is void."
By way of clarification, the Ore
gonian then adds:
"Justice Tooze points out In his
opinion that 'where the busi
ness affected by such (price-fixing)
laws was found to be one
intimately associated with the pub
lic health and welfare, such as the
milk industry, the statutes were up
held as a reasonable exercise of
the police power."
"In the barber case, the court
was not concerned with legislation
having a well-recognized and direct
bearin? upon the health, happ:
ness and well-being of the public
as a whole." Justice Tooze added
'In this barber case, we are con
cerned with a price-fixing sta.ute
of primary interest to the barber
uaue U5eu.
Let's try putting it this way:
If you go without enoueh milk
you may get sick. You might even
die. That is the public's business,
if you go unshaven and unshorn
you may look like the devil, but
THAT IS YOUR BUSINESS.
Pursung this line of reasoning
,u barbers can make it stick
that unshaven and unshorn men
frighten women and babies and
thus endanger the public health
maybe then can get away with
their law putting a floor under the
price of barbering.
From Moscow:
"A half hour conference between
Prime Minister Stalin and India's
ambassador to Moscow has pro-
10P PEOPLE to meet in an at
tempt to settle major international
problem."
I wish It were possible to get
the world's COMMON people to
gethcr (it ISN'T, of course) in a
serious attempt to settle major in
ternational problems. That mWhl
(if.it were physically possible,
which it isn't) get somewhere.
I'm getting cynical about these
conferences of the BIG SHOTS Be
ginning with the Congress of Vien
na, where the world's "top people"
got together to fix fip the mess that
had been made by Napoleon and
running on down through the Trea
ty of Versailles and the Yalta con
ference it looks to me lika the
more of these top-level "confer
ences we hold the worse off we
Official Agencies File
Liens Against Fir
irms
Notice of I
J,'.' '.ne eount-v clerk bv the
Und 'n,l!ral Revenue office
and by the State Industrial Acci
oent Commission.
reoeral tax liens were placed
against Genre E r-,.. j;
business as the Carter Truck and
Equipment Co.. Sutherlin tnr
S447.38. and against Lewis M. Webb
r ui.i. uoin amounts allegedly
are owed in withholding and em
ployment taxes.
The Accident Commission gave
notice of a lien against Robert A.
Frost, doing business as Jack Frost
Logging Company, for $390 60, and
Otis Dell and Julia May Sloner
doing business as S. A. S. Logging
Co. for $37.84 both for alleged non
payment of employer contributions.
On a like charge the Commis
sion has sued Richard H. Higgini
for $55.81.
Statements Detrimental
To Project Given House's
Quiz On Hells Canyon Dam
' By JOHN KAMPS
WASHINGTON (AP) A House Interior subcom
mittee Thursday adjourned a hearing on a bill to authorize
the Hells Canyon project after an engineer testified six
other dams could be built for the same cost and produce
more water power.
The hearing, which began March
26, will be resumed at an undeter
mined time to permit more wit
nesses to testify on a bill to au
thorize the Reclamation Bureau to
build the357-million-dollar dam and
power plant on the Snake River.
Holland Houston. Olvmoia.
Wash., consulting engineer, told
the committee Hells Canyon would
produce less power than a series
of five dame which Idaho Power
Co. wants to build in the Snake Riv
er plus Kooskia dam in the North
foric oi me Clearwater river, a
tributary of the Snake.
The company's proposed dam
sites all would be flooded by Hells
Canyon dam.
Houston estimated the Idaho
Power Co. dams and Kooskia would
cost 390 million dollars, and Hells
Canyon dam plus a transmission
line proposed by the government
would cost about that much.
He said the company dams and
Kooskia could account for 1,611,000
kilowatts of power, compared with
Hells Canyon's 1,124,000 kilowatts.
The totals include generation at
the sites and increased potentials
downstream as a result of river
regulation.
Benefits would be small
Houston said flood control and
navigation benefits from Hells Can
yon power. His figures are double
He said the government would
have to build a 400-mile transmis
sion line to carry power from Hells
Canyon to phosphate plants. The
line would cost about 44 million
dollars, he said.
This line, he said, would run to
wards coal deposits in Utah which
eventually would be used as fuel
for steam power plants when it
becomes necessary to use sifo.i
plants.
The chances are, he declared,
that "this transmission line would
become just a roost for birds."
Hells Canvon would have more
effect on irrigation than the Idaho
Power Company dams, which
would not store large quantities of
water, Houston sail
The engineer disagreed with gov
ernment figures on the per-ko-watt
cost of producing Hells Can-
yon power. His gigures are double
tnose of government engineers.
This led Rep. Budge (R.-Idaho)
to suggest that the committee re-
Camas Valley
Church Has
Nominations
By JEAN YODER
The nominating committee of
the Camas Valley Church met
Friday night at the oarsonaoe
to prepare their report for the
quarterly conference which will
meet Wednesday at the church.
Nominations include the follow
ing: trustees, Ed Joyce, Eihel
Brown and Rubv Moore for 19S.V
stewards, retain present board and
aaa Jim combs and Mrs. Jim
Ralston.; Sunday school superin
tendent, two nominations. Mrs.
Jim Blanden and Marlen Yoder;
assistant superintendent. Mrs. Bes-
sie Wheeler; church board of mis
sions, Mrs. Ruby Moore and Mrs.
Welcome Combs.
Membership and evangelism,
Jim Combs, Hayden Tayler, Mrs.
Ruby Moore, Mrs. Bessie Wheel
er, Mrs. Hazel Roberts and Mrs.
Art Jones: finances, Mrs. Ruby
Moore, Mrs. Bessie Wheeler, Mrs.
Hazel Roberts and Mrs. Art Jones;
finances, Mrs. Ruby Moore, Mrs.
Darlene Heilman.
Mrs. Ethel Brown: Jim Combs,
Art Jones, Mrs. Winnie Brown,
Bob Wheeler; pastor relations,
Marlen Yoder, Mrs. Velda Loon
ey Mrs. Welcome Combs. Guv
Moore and Mrs. Elizabeth
Householder: aud't. Bob Wheeler
and Jim Combs; records and
history, Mrs. Bessie Wheeler.
Temperance, Mis. Hanah Tay
lor, Mrs. Dorothy Papst, Mrs
Bessie Wheeler; music, Mrs.
Jean Yoder, Mrs. Ruby Moore,
Mrs. Darlene Heilman, Lee Wil
son: parsonage, Bob Wheeler, Mrs.
Velda Looney, Mrs. Welcome
Combs; Lay leader, Marlen Yo
der; publicity, Mrs. Jean Yoder.
Kay Wheeler. Bette Jeppeson and
Sharon Combs
Those present at the meeting
was automatic chairman, Rev.
L. G. Weaver; committee mem
bers, Guy Moore, Hayden Taylor
Mrs. Jean Yoder and Mrs. Bes
sie Wheeler; Mrs L G Weaver
was also present.
Camas Valley News Britf:
The Riddle High School Band
performed at Camas Valley Fri
day night.
SPECIAL
This Month
at
BRENT'S
EXCHANGE
1230 Garden Velley Rd.
25 Off on all ex
change brake shoes
and lining sets.
We hare a few sets
of trailer blocks at
' 60 Off.
quest the government to double
check its figures.
Chairman Engle (D. -Calif.) said
this would be done.
Othtr Opposition Heard
The committee also heard oppo
sition to Hells Canyon from N. V.
Sharp, Filer, Idaho, former presi
dent of the Idaho State Reclau---tion
Association and of the lei. .no
Water Conservation Board. He
spoke for the Reclamation Associ
ation,' Twin Falls Canal Co., and
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation.
S'.iarp said the Snake River areas
has been enjoying a wet cycle for
several years.
"But I remember when it was so
dry the birds had to eat apples
off the trees to get moisture,"
Sharp said. "The time is ctM
ing again when irrigators will need
all the water in the Snake River.
Sharp said Southern Idaho far
mers are afraid t'.ieir water rights
would be taken through construc
tion of Hells Canvon dam.
Rep. Miller (R.-Neb.) asked
whether the farmers feel the Idaho
Power Co. dams would interfere
with their water rights.
Sharp replied he understood the
company dams "wouldn't hold
back water, but would use it as it
comes down," and the company
would operate under state laws
protecting water rights of irrigators.
Fine Dealt For Failure
To Stop At Accident
Two motorists were arrested here
on charges of failing to stop at ac
cident scenes.
Barbara Louise Doughton, 20, Ne
bo Trailer Court, paid a $20 fine
Monday in district court after
pleading guilty to the charge. She
was accused of failing to stop after
a collision with a motor vehicle
operated by M. E. Keller, 503 Cobb
St. She was arrested by city police.
Walter William Burgett, 44.
Longvale, Calif., was arrested at
Roseburg by state police on a sim
ilar charge in Marion County.
Pre-School Health Clinic
Plans To Be Discussed
Organization and plans for next
August's pre-school health clinic
for Roseburg schools will be dis
cussed at a meeting April 18.
Representatives of PTAs, includ
ing presidents and health chairmen,
will meet at the Junior High School
starting at 1:30 p.m., according to
Mrs. Dorothy Kitchin, school health
nurse.
The clinic Is held each year be
fore school opens. Physical exam
inations are given all school young
sters entering the first grade for
the first time.
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Youths Pleid Guilty
To Morals Accusations
Two youths pleaded guiltytin Cir
cuit Court Monday to morals
charges involving two 15-year-old
girls.
Milton Herbert Burns, 22, Rose
burg millworker, pleaded guilty to
statutory rape, while John L. Yar
brough, 19, Winston, pleaded guilty
to contributing to the delinquency
of a minor.
Both were arrested by state po
lice. One of the girls involved was
jailed as a delinquent juvenile and
later released to juvenile author-
"judge Carl E. Wimberly post
poned sentence.
Looting Of Railroad Car
Charged To 4 Juveniles
Four boys, ranging from 15 to 17,
were cited Monday to juvenile court
on charges of breaking and enter,
ing a railroad boxcar, the sheriff s
office reported.
Deputies said the boys are ac
cused of the theft of a case of spa
ghetti and a case of canned soup
from one of the cars last March 26.
There was evidence of other box
cars broken into, officers said,
but apparently nothing else was
missing. -
LAUREL LODGE NO. 13
A A. F. t A. m. : '
S)? Ronburj, Or-jon
STATED MEETING
Wedntidoy, April , S P.M.
REFRESHMENTS
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