Grafting Program Tirst' For Forest
Coal Is To Improve Strains
Of Lumber-Producing Tree
The Umpqua National Forest has' ceive the scion. The
scuitu auuiiiiT iirsi in umber
management with a grafting pro
gram this year in its Dorena Seed
Orchard. '
Vondis E. Miller, forest simer-
visor called it one more step in lively seals the union.
scion is u'hit.
uea to make a nearly exact fit.
Skilled whittling is required. The
resultant union is then thoroughly
wrapped with a rubber budding
Dand. fitch from the plant effec-
the seed orchard program begun in
1958. The project involves graft
ing 400 ponderosa, white and sugar
pine trees. .
Improved Strains Eyed
He said forest geneticists have
long dreamed of doing for forest
trees what agricultural scientists
have done for the nation's grains
and livestock. They wish to produce
improved tree strains, immune to
certain diseases.
With this in mind, the Umpqua
National Forest established a 110
acre seed orchard on some farm
land, at the base of the Dorena
Dam just east of Cottage Grove.
Sixty acres have been planted to
date. The trees planted ure called
"understocks." This is where graft
ing enters the picture. When the
understocks are about four-five
years old, twigs called "scions"
are grafted to them.
Union Made
The understock is slotted to re
'Beach Bum'
Influx Due
At Waikiki
HONOLULU (UP!) - Waikiki
is bracing for the annual lemming-like
migration of California
beach bums, usually distinguished
by their biblical haircuts, beards
and reluctance to work.
The advance parly is already
here. Five are in jail and one is
in the hospital.
But observers on the beach say
this should be a bumper year for
them. Transportation costs are
relatively low and co ed enrollment
for the summer session at the
University of Hawaii is expected
to be high.
Grafting has been a common tech'
nique in rose culture and in fruit
orchard work for eenerations. Skill
ed technicians from these fields
soon found work with Ditchv coni
fers required development of new
techniques. Several seasons of trial
and error were needed before Dro
cedures satisfactory for conifers
were developed. These procedures
are now being used on the Ump
qua, according to Frank TerBush,
Forest Reforestation Specialist.
Ten to -10 years hence, grafts
made today will be cross-bred, just
as geneticists to today to produce
hybrid corn. The product of such
crosses will be tested to determine
if desired improvement has indeed
taken place.
Tests Take Longer
Scientists, working with grains,
can produce and test one or two
generations a year. With livestock
they may produce improved strains
every five years or so. Trees are
different. Forest geneticists are for
tunate to produce demonstrably im
proved strains in 10 to 20 years.
The grafting brings together de
sirable candidates. Forest gene
ticists will meticulously watch their
development. Future years will re
veal the results. Disease-resistant
I d I A.
FINAL STEP in the grafting 'process on o pine tree is
shown here by Jerry Barnes. The rubber budding band is
being wrapped around the graft. (Forest Service photo)
Ranch Ramblings
BY WAYNE MOSHER
Highlighting this week is the 24th
Annual Douglas County Fat Lamb
Show and barbecue which is coine
sturdy, fast-growing forest giants '? be held Saturday, June 1, at
should be the reward.
Multiple-use of our national for
est resources requires constant test
ing in this and other fields so that
the objective of "the greatest good
for the greatest number" may be
realized, supervisor Miller concluded.-;.1
Housewives Slap
Darwinism Study
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Do
"Christian children have equal
Police Chief Dan Liu says the riEhts under the law in the tax-
college crowd that arrives about supported schools and if it is un
tile same time as the beach bums
doesn't cause much trouble.
"The so-called water rats are
the ones that are often the vag
rants. They think this is a place
where they don't have to work, and
secondly there are a lot of girls."
Police have found that, the
"bums" sometimes eke out a liv
ing by petty larceny, robbery,
fraud, consorting with homosex
uals and even panhandling in Wai
kiki
constitutional to teach -of God in
the public schools, is it equally un
constitutional to teach of the ab
sence of God?"
The state Board of Education
agreed Friday to ask the state
attorney general for a legal opin
ion on this question, posed by
two housewives from Costa Mesa,
Calif.
Mrs. Jean E. Sumrall and Mrs.
Neil Seagravcs told the board Fri
day that certain school textbooks
teach Darwinism as trutn to tno
Jludd Werner, one of the old
..! i i u u. .:,i icacn unrv
ume mo ' ""':."" exclusion of any religious theory.
Jiiuab ui iw '""- I'- -
tv good guys. . . just a few of
them are wise guys." ;
Others aren't so charitable.
The beach bum now in Queen's
Hospital ended up there alter an
argument with a Hawaiian beach
boy about which group really
"owns" the islands. The Hawaii
an broke his jaw. ,
Some of the girls have already
arrived and say the landlords are
too rough on them.
"In San Francisco you can
make all the noise you want and
the police don't bug you," one of
them said.
She lost a $50 deposit when she
and some friends were evicted
from their Waikiki apartment af
ter a noisy party.
The five now in jail were also
evicted from their furnished apart
ment. But they came back later,
one moved the furniture out and
gave it to his girl friend and all
live were arrested for trespass
ing. The sentence was 90 days but
the judge said they can get out
any time they like. All they have
to do is to find jobs or transpor
tation back to California.
"Waikiki doesn't have lo toler
ate this element," Liu said. 1
Mrs. Sumrall said. "Education
has leaned ovef so far to protect
atheist children from being taught'
religion in school that it is now on
the side of the atheists and agnostics."
Mrs. Scagraves cited a high
school text and several elemen
tary school books which she
claimed leach ' Darwinism "as
truth."
Joblessness Up Slightly
SALEM (UPI) Insured job
lessness was up slightly for the
week ending May 16 than a year
ago, Employment Commissioner
David Cameron said Friday.
The highest rate of unemploy
ment was at Ontario, and the low
est at Corvallis.
Road Decision Delayed
SALEM (UPI) The State High
way Department has decided to
wait until June 3 to close two
lanes of interstate 5 between
Goshen and Crcswell for shoulder
paving. It earlier said it would
close two lanes May 27. The job
will take about four weeks.
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Room 202 . . . Medical Arts Bldg.
the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
This is one of the big events of
the year as far as the sheep pro
ducers are concerned, and a real
chance to show their wares, both
live lambs and barbecued lambs.
Douglas County leads the state
in lamb production and lamb is one
of the real fine meats to cat if it
is properly prepared. Many serv
icemen, durinr the war, ate mut
ton from New Zealand and Austral
ia which not only was poorly pre
pared, but poorly taken care of be
fore it was cooked, and, conse
quently, have acquired a bad taste
for lamb or mutton.
But good Iamb properly prepar
ed is a real treat. Efforts by live
stock producers through the lamb
show and advertising promotion
work with the local stores has in
creased the consumption of lamb
in this area. In the long run we
need to do more about produc-1
ing a meat-type carcass, but the
ones we raise now are good eating
and we hope that in the future they
will be better.
Events Planned
Lots of events are going on at
the lamb show, the highlight of
which is the lamb barbecue. At
noon we serve a barbecued lamb
lunch for 2," cents per person which
is available to anyone who wants
to come. The barbecue is prepared
by Jim Bcvans, a local real estate
man, and Phil Strader, one of the
members of the Livestock Associ
ation. I think I can say without
question that they do the best job
of barbecuing lamb of anyone in
this part of the country. Those of
you who have eaten at the barbe
cue the last two or three years can
certainly testify to their skill as
barbecucrs.
For some of you housewives who
might be interested in preparing
lamb, but don't have the recipes
for how it should be prepared, we
will have recipes available on lamb
barbecue and various ways of pre
paring lamb. Your local meat mar
ket and the County Extension Of
fice also have them and we will
have them available at the lamb
barbecue. So come over and get
some barbecue, learn a little bit
about how to prepare it and enjoy
one of the real fine meats that we
raise in the country.
Possibilities Cited
Three growers and I attended
the Beef Cattle Day at Oregon
State University May 22. It was
quite an interesting program. The
talk I enjoyed most was trie one
by Itucben Albaugh, extension
livestock specialist from Califor
nia, who talked about the Califor-i
nia market and what was needed j
to fill the demand in that area.
There are some real possibilities
fur selling beef in California. At
the present time, Texas and Ari-"in-i
srll an awful lot of beef into
that area, but Oregon could sell a
.ji more than it docs. Generally
rrikin". the California market is
fairly strong. Other highlights of
the program included some feed
ing work that was being done, a
discussion of a Western Oregon
beef operation on foothill ranges, a
report on a survey on calving per
centages and methods here in Ore
gon. Other items included a report
on the contribution of the Adair
tract to the beef cattle research in
Oregon State University. All in all,
it w-as an excellent program and
would have been enjoyed, I am
(JIB
Method Found To Cut
Radioactivity From Milk
LONDON (UPI) Three U. S.
scientists said today they have
devised a "cheap, safe and ef
ficient way" of removing radio
active strontium from milk which
is so simple a housewife can do
it in her home.
In an article published by the
scientilic journal Nature, Joseph
Silverman, Dipen Gohosh and
Ralph L. Belcher of the Glen
Martin Institute of Technology
said SO per cent of any stron
tium present can be removed
from milk simply by adding cal
cium phosphate and then strain
ing it out.
"The method is inherently safe
...(and) preliminary test indi
cate that there are no gross
changes in the flavor, odor or
appearance (of the milk)," Ihe
article said.
Okay To Picket Farms
SALEM (UPI) Oregon prnb-1
ably won't have any law again! I
UKnCtin' of farms this summer.
A 1901 law expires soon. The 1
House Labor and Industries Com-1
mittec Friday failed to get enough
votes to send an extension of the I
law out of the committee for
House action. '
HARRIS
Plumbing A Heatino Co.
1501 S.E. Stephens
Phone OR 1417'
2 Ibe 1.17
J Ibi 1.79
6 of. Imtonr 79c
RAT end JIM'S
Eastside Market
2JS NE Diamond Leke SIo
OR 3-51 1 3
Mon., Moy 26, 1963 The Newi-Reviw, Roteburg,
Aniwar to previous rvrae
IK
sure, by many more beef produc
ers than attended.
If any of you would like copies
of the reports given at the Beef
Cattle Day, these will be available
through the County Extension Of
fice on request.
Haying Good
The weather the last couple of
weeks, 1 am sure, has made a lot
of you itchy to start cutting hay
and in lots of respects I think prob
ably it is a good idea. Some of the
best hay that is made in this coun
ty is cut generally along the lat
ter part of May. Much of the hay
mat goes beyond this stage has a
tendency to be too ripe and, con
sequently, is much lower in real
feed value than the hay that is cut
early. Tonnages are up some on the
late cut hay, but the quality cer
tainly is down. Grasses, which are
in the hay, normally should be cut
when they are in the bloom stage
or belorc and this usually occurs
not too long after they come out
of the boot. -
We sent in some samples of rye
grass hay from Curtis Barker's
prior to blooming on the grass
and these came hack with a very
good level of protein running about
ten to eleven per cent which Is
about as good as most alfalfa
hay runs.
We also have samples of subclov-
cr and grass cut at the proper
stage which run 12 and 13 per
cent protein, so Iherc is a real
possibility of producing excellent
quality hay in this country if you
can cut it at the nnht time and
get it put up correctly.
Lamb Pools Due
Interested livestock producers, of
course, should remember that lamh
pools will be starling the first of
June and those wishing lo partici
pate should sign up on Monday of
the week they wish to ship.
I also would like lo remind
growers, who are in the wool pool
to notify the Extension Office as
soon as they finish shearing. This
gives us a chance lo determine how
much wool has been sheared and
as soon as we have enough for
two carloads, we will try and mak
a shipment. However, if you don't
notify us we can't include you in
the first shipment.
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