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Editor hits timber companies, calls for public forest lands By JACKMAN WILSON Of the Emerald “If we’re really going to be masters of our destiny,” said Tom Bates, editor of the Oregon Times, “we have to control our economic future.” Bates spoke Wednesday night at the Environmental Studies Center’s supervised field studies class. Bates said he believes Oregon’s economy depends on the timber industry and that the timber industry is controlled by multi-national corporations. “We’re in a very bad situation in Oregon now,” he said. “Here we have 20 million acres of prime forest land which are completely out of our control.” Most of this acreage is owned by the federal and state govern ments, but Bates said govern ment agencies almost invariable serve the large timber companies. “I strongly suspect that the way Buck & riita's Second Hand Home furnishings We Feature Furniture, appliances, oak desks, dishes, clothes, tools of all kinds, V.W. tires and more. 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Another problem is the lack of concern about Oregon’s problems at the federal level. “Our entire economy is less than the margin of error in the Gross National Product. We’re not a very significant force,” said Bates. He thinks Oregon needs a citizen’s lobby to combat the influence of Associated Oregon Industries (AOI), one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Salem. The AOI coordinated the timber industry’s successful fight against a timber tax based on yield at the last legislative session. Citizens could also act to improve the large timber com panies’ forest management policies, he said. “A useful strategy right now would be to focus all our energies on Georgia Pacific,” Bates explained. “There are areas in the state where you just couldn’t believe what was done to the land.” According to Bates, Georgia Pacific is the most regressive of all the major timber companies. “How can we expect them to act in our interest when their board sits in Savannah? The evidence suggests we can’t count on them at all,” he said. Weyerhaeuser, on the other hand, “is probably the best in terms of reforestation,” even better than the state and federal governments, according to Bates. As for the Oregon Times, Bates said he plans to increase the circulation of the monthly news magazine from 6,000 to 30,000 and perhaps shift to a regional focus. “We want to become the vanguard of the Oregon revolution,” he remarked. Linfield features scholar Linfield College is presenting renowned scholar and author Richard McKeon as part of their sixth annual fall philosophy lectures in Melrose hall on the college campus. McKeon will speak Monday, Nov. 24, on "Approved Books and Prohibited Books: Heresy and Censorship in Western Culture” and Tuesday, Nov. 25, on “Bicentennial: Revolutions and Constitutions." Both lectures are scheduled to begin at 8:15 p.m. A dinner honoring McKeon will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the Oak Room of Dillin Hall at Linfield. 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While he was collecting data on Oregonians who have started their own businesses, he decided to enhance his study by drawing on the knowledge of his old friend and associate, former University professor John “Jack" Miner. "Jack has done extensive work in the psychological analysis of corporate managers and has developed a way of relating a manager’s rise in a corporation to his desire and motivation to manage," says Smith. Smith says he wanted to see what kind of relationship exists between the corporate manager and the person who starts his own business. Miner, who taught at the University from 1962 to 1968 and is currently a research professor at Georgia State University, has published several books on how industrial psychology relates to personnel management. He’s regarded an expert in the field. “I’ve found that a person’s success in a managerial position is directly related to his desire to organize workers,” says Miner, who’s studied many different managerial groups. A high-level manager is more highly motivated than a lower level one,” he says. The copyrighted psychological test Miner designed to measure managerial motivation is "basically a sentence completion test,” he says. Subjects complete 40 partial sentences. By analyzing the way each manager completes the thought, Miner develops a motivation quotient, which indexes the subject’s desire to be a manager. Smith, who's taking a sabbatical leave from the University this term in order to complete his research on Oregon entrepreneurs, says he intends to test the hypothesis that persons who start their own businesses have an intense desire to manage. “I want to see if managing a company and starting one take the same kind of initiative," he says. Smith says that he has reached a plateau in his research. “I have completed all the analytical work on this sample and have come up with some conclusions which contradict the basic assumptions people in the field have made," he says. Smith says he would like to do additional research before making his findings public. He plans to publish his results in the spring, although there is a slight chance he may release the study as early as January or February. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Postal Service said Tuesday that previously announced increases for international mail rates will go into effect Jan. 3. The higher rates will apply to all international mail ex cept that to Canada and Mexico. Rates for mail to those two nations are scheduled to go up Dec. 28, the date of an in crease for domestic mail. Rates for Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States, will rise from 10 cents to 13 cents for first-class letters. Under the new rates, a surface letter to countries other than Canada and Mexico will cost 18 cents for the first ounce ByLORACUYKENDALL Of the Emerald r. International postal rates up J U of O Students $4.50 Gen. Adm. $5.50 Non-Students at door $6.00 Tickets Available at: EMU Main Desk. Sun Shop. 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