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4 The Newt-Review, Roiehurg, Ore. Fri., July 22, 1955 .' Published Daily Bxcept Sunday by the News-Review Company. Inc. latere! ihiiI ! mailer Her . Itt. " eeeeart, Orie, radar eel el Merca . HIS. J . CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor tnd Manager '. Member of th. Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper PuoJiihers 1 Association, tho Audit Bureau of Circulations ' Eepreseole br WKST-HOLLIDAI CO.. INC., efflc.a l N.w .rk, Chloase. hi rrincUc. Lee Anf.l.a, Ilia, Ferllend. Dtnr.r iUBfCRIPTION ATE-I Ore.eo-Ba Mall-Far law. SIS Ml al t.ola. I.W Ikr.a meolha. IS.SS. O.lilda Or.I.B-Br HaU-fat lair. lll.Nl all oaealoe. I Sl.sei thraa menlha. SS.SS. 1 Br Newe-Beelew Carrier Per Taar, IIS.N (la adreaee), Itaa laao ana Mt. t par menth, SMS. TIMBER AS A CROP i Charles V. Stanton ' JJia you read the report published a few days ago that timber sold from the Umpqua National Forest during- the past fiscal year amounted to $6,654,000? Timber on the Umpqua National Forest is handled as a crop. It is harvested on a cycle of more than 100 years with an annual allowable cut designed to equal the rate of growth, thus maintaining a sustained yieiu pauern. Kfiturns from the UmDuua National Forest's "crop' last year' were only slightly behind the total agricultural inriustrv income from all other sources combined for the same period. Douglas County's agricultural industry has an annual return of between $7 and 7.5 million, reports J. Koland barker, county agricultural agent. Thus receipts from the national forest alone almost equal the income from all other agricultural lands in the county. The Umpqua National Forest has ai. allowable annual cut of 265,000,000 board feet. That total will be reached this year for the first time. Heretofore the actual timber removal has been below the permissible cut because of the lack of access roads. Steamboat Road Extended During the past few years cutting in the Little River area has considerably exceeded the allowable cut for that particular working circle. This overcutting,. however, has not created concern because much of the timber was ma ture, overripe, diseased, etc., needing earliest possible cutting to permit use of the ground for a new crop. While overcutting continued in the Little River area, the Forest Service was pushing a road up Steamboat Creek. This road now has been extended far enough that it becomes possible to reduce the rate of cut in the Little Kiver valley while opening up the Steamboat country. Two operator roads are under construction, branching off from the main Steamboat road into cutting areas. As these and other roads are extended into virgin areas, the Forest Service will be able to maintain sales up to the full volume permitted under the sustained yield program. By the time the rate of removal from the Steamboat basin must be reduced", it is hoped to have the North Ump qua road completed. Operator-built tributaries then will reach into the upper watershed, where ample cutting can be continued while Little River and Steamboat sections are being reforested. The long range program assures a steady supply of timber for all time. Another factor is that stumpage prices are steadily climbing. It is quite probable that sales from the Ump qua Forest this year will equal, i not surpass, the coun 1 ty'i total agricultural Income from other sources. Inventory Increasing The total allowable cut from the Umpqua Forest eventually will be materially increased. Future genera tions wiH have a much larger timber inventory with which to support industrial activity. New forests, as they grow on cut-over lands, will pro duce much more wood per. acre than is obtainable from existing virgin forests. The aid forests are scarred by fire and disease. As new forests grow under managed opera tion, disease control assures heavier stands. At the same time fire protection prevents such losses as occurred in years when forest fires were uncontrolled. Eventually, as the Umpqua Forest begins cutting its second crop, a much higher yield per acre will result. One discouraging feature of our timber usage is the heavy rate of overcutting on private lands. If the exist ing rate is maintained, it will not be too many years until cutbacks in production will be forced. In the meantime, if we succeed in building Up secondary usages, thus giving better utilization of our wood supply, there should be little impairment of economy. The present situation should point up one obvious fact to large land owners: timber is a most profitable crop. Submarginal lands should be carefully examined for their possible use to produce timber for the future. Farm wood lots will be an important source of income in the coining days of chemical utilization. Our agricultural economy can be greatly bolstered by converting non-productive lands into the growing of timber. '.Vhere'Do We Go From Here? i mm m m aa i mt i i m? m trm. Considerable attention hai been given to moral conditions on the Klamath Indian reservation. Vio lence, in the form of beatings and murder, are common to the news. Drinking, accompanied ay sex orgies, add to the sordid pic ture. If these affairs on the reser vation are of considerable shock to those of our citizens with sensi tive morals they are not among the first to be disturbed. T n e Methodist pioneers in the mission field were shocked, no less. After prayerful deliberation Ihey decid ed our native brethern were too steeped in the original sin of Ad am's time. Better take their land away from them and turn it over In the white race. This they did. nnd the Indian sunk even lower from the vices introduced to him by the very whiles who divested them of their heritage. So we condemn the Indian for his lack of morals and smugly meen our own. the while lorgei- ting our white ancestry was just as low down when it was at the adolescent stage of civilized pro mess, as is our Indian. The grand fathers of those Indians on the Klsmalh reservation were former back in time than the Phoenicians who settled on the northern shores of Africa ten thousand years ae.o. Plus, a possible thousand years NEW YORK W Should ti man ever bawl out his boss? The ordinary principles of human safety would be against it. But now a doctor comes along and implies that blowing your top is necessary safety valve and the general idea is that if a guy gets all geared up about life he can explode against tne doss. This may save the guy himself from a heart attack, bolster his i)i ide bit, and perhaps expose turn to death by hunger. But what about the- boss? What happens to him? How about his heart? The average office todav often has several hundred employes, but only one boss. You can see what would happen If all these people, getting knotted up with their own personal prob lems, went in and individually barked at the boss on the grounds it would save them from a heart attack. Since even the most serious boss doesn't' Usually spend more than nine Hours daily ai his desk, there simply wouldn't be time for every body to get his barking done. But a hired hand, hit by sudden indigestion or woe, isn't going to worry about office hours. He will pursue the harried employer dur ing his luncheon hour or follow him into the homeward-hound bus or suburban train to make his point. Look, boss, he says, "i know this probably isn't the right place to bring up this situation. I hate to tell you what's wrong 100111 the way you're running the outfit. But I have to to protect my own health. You understand, don't Job Placements In Oregon Double Last 3 Months SAI.EM 11 Job placements by the state employment offices have mora than doubled in the last three months, reaching, 8,987 In June for the highest total in nearly there vears. The Slate Unemployment Com pensation Commission said Wed nesday that unemployment is run ning at about one-fourth to a third of the level of !W days ago. They added that prospects are for the best balance in Oregon's summer labor market in several weeks. Jobless pay claims are running less than 8.000 a week. Much of the employment rising has been in basic industries with demand growing for skilled and semi skilled labor, the commission reported. Lumber and logging op erations hired 1.282 in June thrmu'h the stale employment of fice, compared to 457 in April and 723 in June of 19.14. Over 50.000 farm Jobs were filled in June. There were 1,176 unfilled Job openings: on the employment of fice files on July 1. compared wun 621 the previous year. Berry, pea, cherry and other early harvests have created tem porary shortages in some parts of the state, mainly m western Ore gon. Harvest help Is needed In the Ilillshoro, Hood River and Salem areas. Sen. Geddes In Croup To Study Urban Control you?" Boss Generates Steam Naturally any boss, bound by the principles of noblesse oblige (Edi tor's note: This is an old French expression for the Taft-Hartley I Act) at least has In lend an par! to the eoninlaint. I SALEM t-f An interim com The nrnblom here is that while i nuttee on local government nd the hired hand is saving himself "rban problems was organized at from a h..aii .iiaoW ih hn. i. '. the state-house Wednesday. Or- building ud steam mond K. Bean, commissioner of hi,,. ,,: . finance of the city of Portland, was . L r " " T i'" " chosen chairman. no doctor has 'enme nut nnd ,a,di . Th meeting will be in Seat- that the way for a boss to avoid a coronary thrombosis is to jump! up ano down and shout "idiots at his employes. Employers don't do these things anymore. One siiRgestion: Have a morni lie. July 62, .in connection with a national conference on govern ment. Members of the committee. which will study the advisability of cnriiailino nrhan r nlmle into tinin- "shoiitimi lmr 4. ., torporaiea areas, mciuoe bodv was assi-mhlM ih .nnim.n. Sen. Paul Geddes. Rosebura; could prevent a h.'art .lu-ir "h ! Rep. AI Lloucks, Salem; Sen. velline at ih )... .i,,i .1..:. 1 Stewart llardie. Condon: ltep. Ed thought of him. He' would )t,.;, I win Johnson. Eugene. Rep. George thoughtfully, then escape a coronJ n. Newberg; I mm y Judge ary seizure himself bv be owing ! " ' , H,n If 1 himself blue in the face at all the Curt" -verl- Tcrtland. butter-fingered bobbles of his fum bling staff. ! other. Everyone sure he was still Then the boss and the bossed ! right they would charge together MOOS I TO CONVENE ASTORIA I Tti nrovinn MnntA would shake hands and hale and i the problems of a new day. Assn. will hold its annual eonven. hearty, all tensions removed, each! And th blood pressure would ; lion here this weekend. Attendance cheerfully misunderstanding each be mutual. I expected to be 1,500. ICALS BVWR PEERV more, for good measure. At this period in man's climb toward the light of mercy and understanding our own ancestors were clubbing their neighbors to death in North era Europe, -stealing their victims wives, and eating their husbands for good measure. And these In dian grandfathers lived less than a century ago. There is no sense in studying Indians merely to gratify a desire to gather ancient skulls and arrow heads. But if we see in the life of the Indian the steps in progress the human race has taken in its climb up the ladder of civilization over the ages, we stand to learn something about ourselves, why we are like we are, with indi vidual consciences and social cus toms designed for the common good. Personally, I have no time with the idea of original sin and all the cults built around that idea. Study of mankind is convincing proof that we came by moralitv and cul ture the hard way. that con science as we know it resulted from man's reasoning powers and is not a miraculous gift that comes to the individual as a revealing lieht. Wise men in all ages, among all races have -reasoned out the need of conscience, with the at tendant growth of ethical customs among their kind. . If one is aware of the lessons ol history we are equally aware that immorality is a reversion to the animal type from which we have risen. So are wars, crimes of vio lence and sexy movies. Man, if he is tn live up to the Godly concept he has acquired through the cen turies, that he is a creature grow ing into Divine relationship, must bear in mind that he can easily lose the vision by reverting to a savage state. Canada Gives Nod To Export Natural Gas To U.S. Marts WASHINGTON W The Canad ian government has authorized a wostern Canadian pipeline com pany to export up to 125 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year for use in the Pacific Northwest, a Federal Power Commission hearing was told Thursday. D. P. McDonald of Calgary, vice president and general counsel for Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., testified the authorization was granted last month and runs for iO years. It covers exports of gas from the Peace River area of northwestern Alberta and north western British Columbia. McDonald supported an applica tion by Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. for permission to import 300 million cubic feet of gas daily from Westcoast Transmission for (J. S. markets. Some of the gas would go back to Canada for sale until Westcoast is able to serve its markets directly with Canad ian gas. The bulk of McDonald's testi mony was taken up by identifica tion and filing of various contracts and other documents proving West coast sources of supply . in the Peace River area. Atomic-Electric Power In Debut Commercially WEST MILTON, N.Y. UV-The free world's first commercial atomic-electric power is in use to day in upstate New York. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission pulled a switch that loosed several thousand kilowatts of it into the Ni agara Mohawk Power Corp. grid. A counterpart of an atomic-submarine reactor produces stoim to operate a turbine and generate the power. An official of the General fclectnc Co., which built the gen erator, said it had a capacity of 21,500 kilowatts and was "expected to produce electricity at the rate of about 10,000 kilowatts." The GE spokesman said the gen erator could provide additional power for as many as 35,000 homes in the system served. Niagara Mo hawk provides power for a wide area of upstate New York "One of the first persons" to use the atomic power, the spokesman declared, was Mrs. John Thomas, of nearby B a 1 1 s 1 0 n Spa, whe "cooked a hamburger" with it. This generating system, Gen eral Electric said, "has a capac;t more than twice the amount the Soviet Union claimed to be pro ducing from a nuclear source in June 1954." Not Yet Competitive btrauss threw the switch during ceremonies at the AEC Knolls atomic power laboratory in this community near Schenectady. The garnering was auenoed by first rank atomic and other officials. The chairman stood before a 225- foot, 20-story shiny sphere housing the reactor. It is a prototype of the reactor that will power the world's second atomic submarine to be launched Thursday at Groton, Conn. Strauss said atomic power was not yet widely competitive with orthodox forms of generating elec tricity. In Washington, an AEC spokes man told a reporter that no de cision had been reached on how long the submarine reactor would be used in part as a comimer cial power-producing installation. lie said the present contract with General Electric was for three years. In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) through history well-heeled able men have built castles. Sam Hill was familiar with the casUes of Europe. That commanding bluff above the majestic Columbia may have appealed to him as a proper place to build a castle. Anyway he went ahead and did it. He built Maryhill Castle as an architect's. dream of what 1 lux urious home should be in an age dominated by the automobile which, he foresaw, would change men s lives as no preceding Hum an invention had done. As original-! ly constructed, Maryhill had a long corridor through its second story. This corridor was reached by a ramp. Automobiles could drive up the ramp through the inside cor ridor and could go out at the end and down another ramp into gar a.ges at the bottom. On each side of the corridor were living facili ties, including a huge living room and game rooms. i The idea was to utilize the auto mobile then in its rudimentary stages of development to the fullest possible extent for the greater convenience of the great house's occupants. That Is to say: Back there nearly a half century ago Maryhill Castle was as per fectly designed for ultra modern living in the ultra ultra modern automoble age as if it had been architected by Harold Lloyd Wright, the modern of moderns i in the way of functional houses j built for modern living in this mod ern day. ' j At Maryhill, Sam Hill backed by a railroad fortune went much farther than the design of the house itself in his anticipa tion of the automobile age. In the grounds, along the road leading up to the castle from the river level, he built sections of the var ious types of roads then known, starting with macadam and going on through such types as concrete pavement, blacktop pavement and oil mats. These were designed to be guin ea pigs for the highway engineers. Maryhill Castle, of course, was ahead of its time. But it is inter esting to reflect that back in that earlier day, when the automobile was still in its more rudimentary stages, a keen intelligence such as Sam Hill's had anticipated the day when this new device would revolutionize human living. Maryhill is now a museum, sup ported by a trust fund left by its builder. It has been altered to ac comodate it to its present pirpo.se. The corridor- through which auto mobiles were desiened to enter the structure and leave their pas sengers conveniently and comfort ably on the inside, has been closed off. Other changes have been made for the same reason. It was never lived in for any extended period. It was basically g dream house. f supposa Maryhill will be re membered Test for its dedication. Among Sam Hill's numerous titled and royal European friends was Queen Marie of Roumania. Because of this friendship . and, I reckon, a certain flair for show manship possessed both by Rou- ( mania's beautiful queen and her American host she came over to dedicate Maryhill Castle. As one hears the stories, the dedica tion must have been a brilliant affair. Visiting queens in those days were rare even in the more sophis ticated' eastern part of our coun try, and out here in the far west they were regarded as glamorous indeed. In her later years, grief and sorrow and frustration came to Queen Marie in overflowing measure, and there must have been times when she looked back to her carefree visit to Maryhill Castle with nostalgic longing. Clen Wellman Draws COP Meet Honor Seat PORTLAND 11 An attendance of more than 500 at Friday's Northwest Governors Republican Dinner was predicted here Wed nesday by Paul Hebb, chairman. Profit from the $100 a plate af fair will be divided equally be tween state and county GOP treas uries, he said, with counties credi ted on the basis of tickets sold locally. Speakers will be Gov. Paul Pat terson of Oregon. Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington and Gov. Robert Smylie of Idaho. In a drawing to determine who would be at the head table with the governors as representatives of precinot workers those selected were Glen Wellman of Roseburg and Mrs. Dan Head of The Dalles. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Any member of the Church of God, headquarters at Cleveland, Tennessee, Zeno C. Tharp, General Over seer, please contact me. Rev. C. S. McGuire 1803 Munson St. or Write P. O. Box 1251 Roseburg John Wm. Unruh, M.D. Physician-Surgeon announces the opening of his office 303 Pacific Bldg. ORchard 2-2414 Practice limited to eye. REVIVAL Evangelist Center Church Dillard, Oregon Evangelist James Ralph Elliott, from Lodi, California, Pentecostal Church Of God Everyone is invited to attend. We are pleased to announce that Leo F. Young, CP. A. ond Marvin E. Walpole, CP.. A. ' Have Formed The Partnership " YOUNG, WALPOLE & CO. Certified Public Accountonts with offices to be locoted ot 404 NORTH JACKSON STREET ROSEBURG, OREGON lY!i 0 20 OFF ON ANY COMPLETE CAR PAINT JOB Limited Time Only-Come In Now MOTOR CO. Imagine ... a 2-bedroom home, constructed through out with number 1 grade lumber ond complete with plumbing, electric range and refrigerator. All this for only $325.00. Send now for interesting literature . it's chock full ot valuable information for you. ' Construction datoils a) Panalizing estimates Hauling costs Building, dimensions And other important information Actual photographs show "as is" houses, panelizing process and re-erected homes showing what others have done. Complete floor plans included. .HOUSING AUTHORITY OF PORTLAND Comer Johniwood and Swift Blvd., Portland, Oregon Gentlemen: Pleale rvh me complete derailed and illuslroled folder I o inlereiled in: 2. bedroom; Q 3-bedroom; Q Ovplei C Hauling distance from Portlond: . Ad Slogans On License Plates May Be Banned LANSING. Mich. LH Secretary of Stale James M. Hare said to day Michigan likely will drop the "Water Wonderland'' slogan from vilo license plates in 1957. "The trend is away from license plale advertising and slogans," Hare said. The question arose when the Kal amaroo County Circuit Court yes terday overruled the conviction of I motorist who had covered the slogan on his license plate. The court held that the motorist was not required to advertise the (late. THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD HOUR International voice of the Church of God (Gospel Trumpet, Anderson,- Ind.), urging "A United Church For A Divided World" will now be broadcast over Station KRXL Sunday Evenings at 6:00 p.m. HEAR; DR. W.DALE OLDHAM RADIO MINISTER o ANDERSON COLLEGE CHORAL-IERS o CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HOUR QUARTET
