FARM FOREST FACTS
BY BOB BRADLEY
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OREGON STATE UfHVCRSITY
How often have you heard some
one say, "If I had known 20 years
ago what I know today, I would
have done things differently?" In
other words, we learn some things
too late to make use of them.
For this reason, we try to teach
our children some of the more im
portant things at an early age, so
that they will have this knowledge
to use whenever they need it.
In Oregon, one of these more
Important things is our forests. In
fact, it heads the list as our great
est source of income. Is addition,
our forests contribute indirectly to
our second, highest source of in
come, agriculture, by holding and
gradually releasing water. Recrea
tion, another major source of in
come, is directly dependent upon
our forests, for the most part.
Many Attend
In 1962,. a total 686 sixth grade
students, representing 16 schools
in nine school districts took part
in five forestry tours. At these
tours they learned about such
things as forest products, forest
soils, tree identification and refor
estation, pruning and thinning, fire
control and wildlife in a giant out
door classroom. Thev cnuld actual
ly see and touch the things they
were learning about, for their text
nooks had suddenly come to life in
this fir-scented natural settine.
Originally, the tours in his coun
ty were on the Bert Melius tree
farm between Tenmile and Reston.
Last fall, a second area located
on the Mona Rydell tree farm west
of Drain was added to serve the
schools of the north end of the
county. This spring, a third area
located on the South Umpqua Rod
and Gun Club property, west of
Canyonville, has been added for
the schools of southern Douglas
County.
On April 24, some 300 students
will converge on the new south
Douglas area. The following morn
ing 160 more sixth graders will
tour the Melius or Central Douglas
site. In the afternoon, on the same
site, nearly 50 vocational agricul
ture students will take part in a
special advanced tour, designed to
supplement their studies in forestry-
Foresters Teach
And who teaches these students?
Mainly they are foresters from
the various federal, state and coun
ty forestry agencies and the lum
ber and plywood industry. Others
present specially trained persons
in the fields of soils, game man
agement and 4-H.
From letters and other both
written and oral reports we re
ceive, this experience is a lasting
one. Information learned is the
subject of many classroom discus
sions and themes throughout the
school year and gives greater
meaning to classroom studies in
forestry and conservation. We of
the Douglas County School Forest
ry Tour Committee believe that
what is learned from these tours
will aid these students in many
later-life decisions.
Mon., April 22, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or, f
World's Most Elastic Spaceship
May Be Claimed By United States
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -Concede
the Russians what you
will, but to the United States must
go the honor of having built what
seems to be the world's most elas
tic spaceship.
The result could be the first
endurance contest in space a sort
of flagpole sitting-in-the-sky, star
ring, astronauts. If science is will
ing to take a backseat.
At the heart of the matter is
America's famed Mercury space
capsule and, more specifically, its
remarkably stretchable abilities
which appear to have no limit.
Two years ago, scientists placed
what seemed a firm limit on a
man-carrying Mercury capsule
three orbits, no more. The experts
cited all sorts of reasons why any
thing more was entirely out of
the Question! . . , j
' Capsule Far Cooper
Today, the .same , scientists are
getting the same, type of capsule
ready to take an astronaut, L.
College Students
Visit In Winston
By PHEBE McGUIRI
David McCord, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles McCord of DiUard,
spent the Easter weekend with his
parents and brother, Pete. David
has returned to his studies at South
ern Oregon College in Ashland.
Others Visit
Gary Clendennen, a student at
Oregon State University in Corval
lis, spent the Easter weekend with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Myers on Rice Creek. His mother,
Mrs. Ruth Clendennen of Bakers-
field, Calif., is currently visiting
the Myers.
. Mrs. Bill Cooper of Winston en
tered a hospital in Roseburg re
cently due to a heart attack. She is
reported to be in serious condition
and is unable to receive visitors,
although her condition is reported
as slightly improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McGuire
' drove to Eugene recently to attend
to business pertaining to the Wood
men Circle, of which they are
field representatives. They remain
ed overnight.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rudzik and
family of Sacramento, Calif., were
visitors in Winston during the bast'
er holiday. Thev visited their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rudzik
in Lookingglass and Mr. and Mrs.
Don Sheppard of Winston.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Laurance
of DiUard spent the recent holiday
with their son, Barry Laurance
and family in Redmond.
C. C. Fosback, Postmaster at the
DiUard Post Office, has been re
leased from a hospital and is now
recuperating at his home in uu
lard. His condition is reported as
much improved and he is able to
be up and receive visitors.
Gordon Cooper Jr., 22 times
around the world sometime in
May
And still the end isn't fully in
view. Flans already are underway
for a possible Mercury capsule
manned flight of perhaps 70 orbits
this year and the experts say it
is entirely feasible.
Somewhere along the line, a fair
degree of elasticity has set in.
From three to 70 orbits is a long
stretch.
It is now apparent that Project
Mercury, America's first man-into-space
program, was on the
ultra side of conservative when
it started estimating the capabil
ities of the space capsule two
years ago.
Open Throttle
Only after the three-orbit trips
of astronauts John a. Glenn jr.
and J. Scott Carpenter last year
did Mercury's scientists begin to
open the throttle. Additions to the
vital oxygen, food and,, fuel sup
plies quickly made it possible for
astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
to double the capsule's original
performance estimate with a six
orbit trip in October.
But physically, . the Mercury
cansule is the same rigid item
that it was two years ago shaped
roughly like an old-time television
picture tube with barely enough
room for an astronaut to breathe
and push buttons and switches
Price to Pay
There is a price to pay for these
extra orbits. The added ounces 01
fuel, food and water must come
from somewhere. Since the maxi
mum wnieht of the capsule is in
flexible, the subtraction generally
starts in the scientific experi-
mpntft parried aboard.
Which is another way of saying
the longer the flight of a manned
Mercury capsule, the less it can
do on a scientific level wnicn con
tradicts the idea of Project Mer-i-urv
in the first dace.
There is a breaking-off point
where a Mercury capsule flight.
from a coldly mathematical view
point, ceases to be a thing of
science and necomes instead an
orbiting platform suitable for little
more than an endurance contest
on the part of the astronaut.
The question is, where is that
point?
Even the scientists don't seem
certain.
BURIED ALIVE
WOLKERSDORF, Austria
(UPI) Johann Schleifer, 25,
was rescued Sunday after spend
ing 13 days without food and wa
ter in a tomo in tne local ceme
tery. A oasserby heard his moans,
He told police he had slipped into
the tomb for a nap and pulled
the stone slab almost completely
back into place. When he awoke
he was unable to move the stone.
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