China timber won’t ease world shortage
By DINA MILES
Of the Emerald
The lack of diplomatic recogni
tion between the United States
and China and the scarcity of
“hard currency" in that nation are
two major hurdles blocking sales
of U.S. wood products to China,
Jim Weaver, Oregon's fourth dis
trict congressman, said Friday.
The Democrat, who made his
remarks at an afternoon press
conference, outlined the purposes
of his recent trip to China and said
Who will
pay to
dial 911
By PATRICK SULLIVAN
Of the Emerald
A 911 telephone system that
would connect all of Lane
County's 28 emergency services
to a single number could be instal
led if someone could be found to
foot the bill.
Jerry Guddat, Eugene Custom
ers Services manager for Pacific
Northwest Bell, says his company
has the technology for such a sys
tem, requiring a central location
where calls are transferred to the
proper agency depending on the
nature and location of the
emergency.
Bell Telephone also supports
the system says Bill Leanard,
owner of Eugene's ambulance
service, (Medical Services Inc.,)
because he says “the majority of
money needed for the system
would be paid to the telephone
company for holding and transfer
ring calls between districts
A survey study done a couple
years ago said $500,000 would be
needed yearly to run the system.
Besides funding, implementa
tion in Lane County would require
cooperation between all fire dis
tricts, ambulance services, police
agencies, and hospitals in the
county.
Pierce Brooks, Eugene Police
chief, says, "Of course we support
911, but it is a policy decison and
must start in the city council and
county commissioners’ meet
ings.”
The Eugene City Council prob
ably won’t discuss the idea soon,
because “police work plans don't
call for it,” according to Charles
Henry, Eugene City Manager. The
plan needs thorough study before
legislative bodies can act on it, ac
cording to Henry. He thinks the
study should “start with police and
fire chief associations.”
The Association of Public
Communications officers (ARPCO)
is discussing the emergency
phone system. Its members act as
administrative liaison between the
federal Communications Com
mission and its agency.
Lt. Howard Kurshner, com
munications officer for the Lane
County Sheriff and member of
APCO s ‘‘911 committee”
says “APCO will be instrumental
to implementation of 911, be
cause the members are elec
tronics experts for their agencies
Members include representa
tives from police and fire depart
ments around the state and pri
vate companies like Bell Tele
phone and RCA.
The California Legislature has
passed a law that requires the 911
emergency telephone number to
be used throughout the state
“That’s writing on the wall for
Oregon,” Kurshner said.
he wanted to discover if China
could possibly become a source
for supplying logs to Japan, which
would relieve the burden on the
United States.
But, he said, China is “woefully
deficient of wood,' and wood pro
ducts. He mapped out China's
lack of timber from area to area,
adding that in some spots, the
only woods to be seen was the
thin lining of hardwood trees on
streets, roads and canals. He said
in some reforestation areas, the
situation is “pathetic.''
China is unable to become a
source of timber, Weaver said,
because “they literally plant every
inch of soil to crops.'' The Chinese
utilize as much land as possible
for growing vegetables and grain.
In addition, mechanization proce
dures are not major factors in crop
harvesting. In fact, he said, most
of the fertilization is done by hand.
Weaver said he doubted that
China will "have any real timber
for 50 years."
Because China does very little
importing or exporting, Weaver
said a scarce amount of hard cur
rency exists in the country which
hampers its ability to take part in
worldwide trade.
Weaver said Chinese officials
told him they were not interested
in importing grain from the United
States until diplomatic recognition
is established. That should also
mean the United States wouldn't
export timber to China unless the
relations were established,
Weaver added.
Weaver favors forming dip
lomatic ties with China.
"We ought to recognize a coun
try with 900 million people," he
said. Such recognition would "sell
us a helluva lot more grain over
there."
According to Weaver one factor
that will emerge from China in the
years to come is oil. He said some
areas have been barely explored
for oil yet.
Weaver said even though
Japan is a timber-short country,
Congressman Jim Weaver: China deficient in timber
he would favor banning exports of
timber from the United States. He
said keeping raw timber in
America would reduce the possi
bility of shortages in United States
and Oregon mills. But, he added,
Japan could not turn to China for
wood products because that na
tion is incapable of providing
them.
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