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'Pure Cussedness' Of Bear Population Blamed For Destruction Of Forest Signs By MRS. MILTON HAMMERSLY Perhaps a wildlife psychiatrist could give a plausible explanation, but to foresters it sometimes seems to be pure cussedness which leads a bear to destroy signs erect ed in remote locations in National Forests. Particularly if reaching the place where a sign is needed has required a long hike over rugged or steep terrain. Problem Long Standing Bear damage to directional and informational signs has long been a problem to Forest Service per sonnel, South Umpqua District Ranger Hillard M. Lilligren ex plained. A few years ago when strips of bright metal with em bossed lettering were mounted on boards to designate timber sale areas, they fell victim to teeth and claws of bears just as readily as the wooden signs that were used previously. Now lettering is rout ed out and painted on 2-inch stain ed plank slabs and bears still de stroy the markers. Since present King, Randolph 'Sparked' Race March On Washington By AL KUETTNER United Press International To catch the philosphy behind the march on Washington, you have to go back several months to two men, A. Philip Randolph and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Randolph, one of the silver tongued orators of the integration movement for more than half a century, wanted an early summer demonstration in the nation's cap ital to publicize the Negro's ap peal for better jobs. At first, Randolph's idea was only that. It appeared for a while it would not get off the ground. Then King stepped into the pic ture. The leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) proposed the Negroes join forces in a demonstration for "jobs and freedom." After several changes in pro posed dates Aug. 28 was nailed down, and yesterday's expression was the result. What did Negroes really hope to accomplish? Reduced to simplest t e rms, Randolph, King, Roy Wilkins' of the NAACP and others have put it this way: They hoped to dem onstrate with "our bodies" by the thousands that Negroes are unit ed in the integration movement. The extent to which today's dem onstration could put over that point will be the measure of its success or failure. "This is a concrete expression Woodsworkers Have Ratified New Contracts PORTLAND (UPI) Officials of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) and Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union (LSW) have announced their members have ratified three-year contracts with the Timber Operators Coun cil and three independent firms. The contracts call for wage in creases of 30V4 cents . an hour. The independents are Potlatch Forests Inc. of northern Idaho and Montana and two Tillamook firms, Diamond Lumber Co. and American Wood Preserving Co. Harvey Nelson, president of the IWA's region 3, said' workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the TOC agreement in a referen dum conducted by that union. He declined to give any figures. LSW local Approve The LSW left it up to its locals to approve or reject the contract, and Ted Prusia, executive secre tary of the Willamette Valley Dis trict Council, said all have gone along. Prusia said LSW locals already have signed contract with about half of the TOC firms, but some of the 196 members of the em ployer organization have balked at the terms. He said negotiations are continuing. The TOC docs not have the power to bind its mem bers to the contract, which was agreed upon Aug. 15. "Mopping Up" Stage Reached The announcements today left the Northwest lumber industry dispute which at one time idled 29.000 workers this summer in what Prusia called the "mopping ud" state. The only plants still strike bound are the U.S. Plywood Corp. operation at Anderson, Calif., and Yamhill Plywood Co. at McMinnville. The "latter is op crating with non-union labor. Both unions still are negotiating with several independent firms, among them Boise Cascade Corp., Brooks-Scanlon Corp. of Bend, McCloud River Lumber Co. of McCloud, Calif., and Martin Brothers Container and Timber Products at Sutherlin and Oak land, Ore. BRING YOUR- Sewer Drainage Septic Tank Drain Field Excavating PROBLEMS TO-PRE-MIX CONCRETE PIPE CO. 672-2694 signs represent an investment when installed of about $10 each, they are costly playthings for a bear's amusement. Fire Control Officer Elmo A. Picht tells of repeated experiences he has had with damaged signs. On the way to one of the fire look outs on the district, a trail junc tion point required five signs. Em ployes would install the signs, then continue the trip to the lookout, and often upon their return to the junction, would find the signs de stroyed or badly damaged during their absence of one or two hours. "We never saw bear in that par ticular area," Picht recounted, "but in the days when we used packhorses to carry supplies to lookouts, the animals always be came highly nervous and excited along that portion of trail, and we surmised that a bear was watch ing us from nearby brush and the horses scented their presence. They must have been watching us to sneak in and destroy the signs from the grass roots," Wilkins said in an interview with United Press International. "This is not King and Wilkins interpreting. These are the-people, all in one place in person, saying to the government that they have given up their pay for a day or two and that they have lost sleep and comforts to come to Washington to say they want first class citi zenship. Wilkins added that if he were a member of Congress, which is now considering civil rights legis lation, he could not consider the appeal "purely routine." The march was intended to answer once and for all the oft- repeated accusations in some parts of the country that the "normal pattern of racial peace is being upset only by the influx of "outside agitators." Bowling its sport? Give top quality by BllUUlljick Dynamic blue end black STARFIRE baH with ROLLING BALANCE, Dureiet finish, Dynacore center, $27.95. Get the CARAVELLE molded case. $13.96 and LANCER shoes at lust $7.96. fJJ Bvuuwlek Gift Certificate DS rjj ' DELUXE HAIR DRYER IN iyi ' cm. i r. ,. I I jlM I ill FAMILY-SIZE AUTOMATIC 11)1 MLO-" . 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Then it is splintered almost like a human had bashed it over a rock, but claw marks tell the story of the mighty strength of which the bear is capable, portions of some signs, such as one shown in the accompanying photograph, are be yond recovery, being chewed to bits." "Ira B. Poole, Cow Creek's fire control officer and longtime Forest employe, has observed many instances of bear, damage to signs and has one striking color slide of a marker clawed and chew ed by a bear. The picture shows that the animal even chewed the base of the post until it resembled the work of a beaver felling a tree," Lilligren added. Riddle Youth Sentenced On Contributing Count Todd Pruitt, 19, Riddle, was sen tenced Wednesday, to serve 18 months in the Oregon State Cor rectional Institution for contribu ting to the delinquency of a minor. Pruitt earner pleaded guilty to the charge, which had been re duced from a Grand Jury indict ment accusing him of procuring a female for illicit purposes. The girl involved was 17 years of age. Circuit Court Judge Don H. Sand ers pronounced sentence following pre-sentence investigation. It Pays To Patronize News-Review Advertisers 1 , " -sad --n -"fl jwap Xf EASY CREDIT TERMS 650 South East Jackson MAN as THIS fish;XakeA ICS? - THERE 4 . x v f r a no ill ' .OrX ' ' JUL And ! ! ,' DAMAGE DONE BY BEARS and humans is illustrated in an exhibit displayed at the entrance of the South Umpqua Ranger District office. "We hope eventually to control human vandalism through, a program of education but we are at a loss to know how to appeal to the better nature of o bear," says Ranger Hilliard M. Lilligren of Tiller. The. sign on the left which once marked the way to a remote lake in the South Umpqua watershed, had to be replaced at an approximate cost of $20. The bear-damaged sign which marked a timber sale unit near Twin Buck Shelter represents an installed cost of about $10. "Such destruction costs money out of the pocket of every taxpayer," Lilli gren said. As the exhibit points out, there is an 'open season' on beors. What to do with destructive humans is another question! (News-Review photo) Churches Back Capital By LOUIS CASSELS WASHINGTON (UPI) Protes tants, Catholics and Jews joined forces Wednesday in the greatest interfaith protest against racial dis crimination America has ever seen Thousands of white church and synagogue members came here from all parts of the nation to support Negroes in the march on Washington. They were demonstra ting their announced conviction that racial justice is, above all else, a moral issue. They also were trying to make march was organized by the Na amends for what many church- tional Council of Churches, the men consider the relatively timid National Catholic Conference on 0K3gfr jfi&Z&r&X DID 8 IS A SEASON role organized religion has played in the fight against segregation. Among them were hundreds of nationally known religious lead ers, bishops, priests, ministers and rabbis, as well as ordinary men and women from the pews. Some came by chartered plane and bus from as far away as Cali fornia and Oregon. Some came on foot from the capital's own churches and synagogues. Religious participation in the OPEN FRIDAYS TIL 9 P.M. Phone 672-1606 BEARS DID THIS (J 0 Pi : OH ; March Interracial Justice, and the Amer ican Jewish Congress. Leaders of these three groups served with the leaders of Negro civil rights organizations as co-sponsors of the demonstration. Dozens of other religious organi zations gave their official bless ings to the march, and encouraged their members to participate. Leaders of all three faiths em phasized, in statements prior to the march, their common convic tion that removing racial barriers is one of the nation's most urgent moral problems. You Can Always Buy Better Quality Merchandise For Less Money At Weisfields Thur., Aug. 29, 1963 The Togetherness' Hits Game Of Billiards New York (UPI) Togetherness has come to the game of billiards. Increasingly, the ancient game is played at home apparently on the theory that families who play together, stay together. Even the New York Department of State spelled out what a bil liards game should be in a ruling recently when it suspended the license of an Elmira, N.Y., oper ator of a parlor lor obstructing from clear view the lower third of the parlor's windows. This, the Department said, was a violation of the State Law. which in licensing billiard estab lishments follows the "legislative intent that the game should be a "good, clean, family fun" actlv ity. One industry source says that every state has some sort of legis lation controlling billiards estab lishments and in addition there are municipal ordinances. These de cide opening and closing hours, age limits, zoning ana license fees, Billiards On Increase This same industry source, the Brunswick Corp., which makes billiard and bowling equipment. reports that growth of billiards has increased more than SO per cent in a two-year period. It es timates that nationally, 10.3 per cent of the population, represent ing more than 18 million persons, participates in the sport. By 1964, the total will be more than 24 mil lion, the firm predicts. In a study, the researchers found home billiards popular with 43.8 per cent of the males and 69 per cent of the females play ing the game, either in their own or a friend's home. The study also showed the teen age market represented 37 per cent of players at away-from home centers, either billiard rooms or combination billiard and and bowling establishments. 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He died in 1959 at the age of 71. Rejuvenation of the game for the whole family began about two years ago when the dimly lighted "pool hall" began to get its face lifted. - . : , As New York's Department of State remarked in that announce ment of suspension of one pro prietor's license, "manufacturers have encouraged prospective pro prietors to erase the old 'pool hall' image of smoke-filled rooms and hustling shady characters for one of pine paneling, plush carpet ing, air-conditioned halls and modern equipment." - The traditional green table sur face has given way to other col ors, partly because manufacturers want to lure Mom and, the kids as well as Dad. Tables now ; are available in deep blue, gold, tangerine or clas sic white, with cloths offered in blue, beige, deep tangerine, gold or green. "Mix or match colors of tables and cloths," said a spokesman for Brunswick, "and you come up with more than 20 combinations available." 299f m MONTH
