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Cottage Grove Sentinel
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C O TTA G E GROVE, L A N E C O U N TY , OREGON TH U R S D A Y , JA N U A R Y 15. 1953
BLM Faces Beetle-Killed Tree Disaster;'
Smith River Area Said To Be Worst Hit V
1st Nat. Releases
Year End Figures
' Statement of condition figures
released today by the First N a
tional Bank of Cottage Grove
show that, as of December 31.
1952, deposits at the bank were
$8,185.487, loans were $2,460.915
and total resources were $8,948,-
720. This bank is an affiliate of
the First National Bank of P o rt
land.
In reporting the figures, H . E.
Eakin, cashier of th> bank, also
gave the figures for the bank a
year ago. On December 30, 1951,
deposits', w ere $9.003.817. loans
were $1,269,156 and total re
sources wei e $9,678.448,
At the same time, figures were
reported by the First National
group, eopsisting of the First N a
tional Bank of. Portland and its
48 stateyvide banking offices and
15 affiliated banks with 18 offices.
On 'December 31. 1952, deposits
were $729.824,388, loans were
$355,945,791 and total resources
were $797,324,175.
Over December 30, 1951 First
National Bank group deposits in
creased $44.832,840, loans were up
$35,792,282 and total resounces in
creased $58,715,134.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment, with the largest amount of
revenue yet received from O&C
timber reported in 1952, is faced
with a disastrous problem in the
enormous amounts of timber found
to be affected by windstorms and 1
the,widespread Douglas fir beetle ‘
epidemic which had its' origin in i
the wind thrown trees. The B LM i
has found its worst problem i n 1
the remote Roman Nose area on
Smith River west of Cottage
Grove.- ' ..•• •
‘ The beetle problem was over
shadowing the good flews of the
near $11 million in revenue from
sale of O&C land» in Oregon and ¡
over $700,000 from public domain i
lands in Oregon, Wàshington and ;
Idaho.
The BLM estimates that more •
than 3 billion board feet of O&C
and public domain timber is wind-
thrown or beet le-killed. Whenever
possible, that timber should be
logged immediately, to utilize the,
trees and prevent further spread’
of the beetle, the B LM ieported.
A recent survey disclosed that the
largest^ concentration, of damage
is in Coos, Lane and ' Douglas
counties.
Ross Youngblood, B LM Coos ¡
Bay district forester, has inspect
ed the area from both.the a ir and
the ground. He estimates that ap
proxim ately 20„ percent of the
merchantable timber is down and
that the bark beetlps are moving
ip about 130,000 acres of tjje
a red which has a volume of idear-
y~ 3 TiiTRon board feet. A survey
has been completed for a federal
BEETLE-KILLED DOUGLAS FIR trees, with large concentration in Lane, Douglas
timber access toad into the w ater
and Coos counties, creates problem for Bureau of Land Management, with greatest sal The State Highway commission shed.
But, Youngblood reports, it
vage problem yet to come in 1953. Worst problem is in remote Roman Nose area on Smith received six bids for the $10 m il may take five years to reach some
River west of Cottage Grove and north of Scottsburg. Circle enclosed patches of trees lion bond issue sold last week. of the down and beetle-infested
in above picture are all beetle-killed.
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Effective interest rates offered by timber and remove It.
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The BLM took many steps in
fhe bidders ranged from 1.9928095
percent by the First National 1952 to expedite the salvage of
Altogether, 1,412 firms <983 of
Bank of Chicago and 28 associates damaged timber. Congress was re
them smalt businesses t in 28 states
quested to and did appropriate
to 2.074857 percent.
participate directly with a major
The interest rates offered by additional funds to increase tho
airfram e m anufacturer as sup
the successful .bidder were 1% numher for foresters to speed MP
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pliers of materials in a jet bomb for $500,000.00 *in bonds maturing timber sales. Emergency regula
er. Some 79 percent of the result in 1954, 1% % for $6,500.000.00 in tions Were issued to grant short
ant .purchases hy these subcon
I bonds maturing from 1955 to 1967, term access-across B LM lands to
tr a c to r s , in turn, are made w ith
and 2 % for $3 m illion in bonds remove salvage timber. . Restric
small business firms.-.." ■ ‘
maturing from 1968 to 1973. The tions were eased oo the m arket
-total amount of interest that the ing area requirements to allow
Legal Forms- The Sentinel
.state w ill pay upon the bonds will O&C logs to be hauled beyond the
be $2,092,450.00. The bonds ma boundaries of the O&C marketing
ture in installments of $500,000.00 areas, after the timber is once
each year from 1953 to 1972 in offered for competitive bidding
clusive and those maturing after and does not sell.
The greatest progress in sal
1963 are subject to optiohal re
demption on or a fte r March 1, vage will, however, be found in
the 1953 timber sale program, thè
1963.
The first two issues of highway BLM stated. Plans have been com
bonds sold from the $40 million pleted to offer 618,650,000 board
authorized by the 1951 legislature feet of which more than half, or
went at interest rates of 1.6Wfc 326,330,000 board feet, w ill be
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and 1.63% respectively. W hile the salvage sales.
Roscoe E. Bell, regional admin
WE SERVICE
rate of the bonds just sold is con
WE SELL
siderably higher than the rates istrator of the B LM for the -Pa-'
bid upon the previous two issues, cific Northwest, praised the co
the rate is in line w ith rates upon operative aerial-ground survey of
high grade state and municipal approxinfately 13 million acres in
bonds and conforms closely to the the Douglas-fir belt to locate and
rate w h i c h the federal govern determiné the exent of -the blow
1061 Tyler St., Cottage Grove
ment is paying upon 91 day trea down and beetle-kill damage as
22-ltc
the outstanding forestry project
sury bills.
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Call
of the year.
For five weeks last summer fly
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ing and ground crews made up of
men from federal and private
forest agencies w o r k e d
to
gether to make aerial maps of
the blowdown and beetle-kill, and
to ground check the maps and in
formation for accuracy. When the
survey was completed and the
facts added up, both private tim-
berland owners and the managers,
of federal and state forest were
astounded, at the damage.
The timber salvage job is the
largest since the Tillamook burn.
I t is expected'to exceed even that
forest catastrophe (which covered
approximately 370,000 acres). The
present problem of, windthrown
and beetle-infested
timber
ft
scattered over 7,000,000 acres,
much of it in areas without roads.
I t is Sow estimated that 10 billion
board ' feet of timber is dead or
dying. This is greater than the
total cut in western Oregon and
western Washington in 1952. The
entomologists further believe that
•the bark beetle epidemic w ill con
tinue to spread during 1953, add
ing another two to five billion
board feet to the damage.
Bell pointed out that in Octo
ber the 18 counties in the O&C
area of western Oregon were paid
$6,053,458.39 as their share of the
1952 income. Douglas county re
ceived more than $ l l/i million,
T H E B E A U T IF U L
Jackson County over $1 million,
and Lane county almost $1 mil
lion.
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State Hiway Bonds
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OSC PLANS ANNUAL
DADS DAY FEB. 14
Beautifully new in styling from bumper to
bumper, the great new 1953 Pontiac represents
an outstanding value in many ways: It gives
you a longer 122-inch wheelbase—and roomier,
more luxurious bodies. Pontiac’s over-all per
formance is even more spectacular for 1953—
with remarkable steering and parking ease.
For performance, economy and deep-down
value«)the 1953 Pontiac is indeed an auto
mobile masterpiece well worth inspecting.
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BETTER H IG H W A Y AW ARDS CONTEST
N e w cute B f b b U I b I P r o a f Ttust H M a u - f a r » a f t e r F a a C a a ’f B e t • F ru tto le !
A L B E E P O N T IA C
24 NORTH 9th STREET
PHONE 19
- Oregon State College— Dads of
Oregon State college students will
be honored on the campus Febru
ary 14.
B uilt around a Valentine theme,
th£ Dads Day program w ill in
clude a luncheon tor fathers and
their sons and daughters, the an
nual Dads club meeting, a special
matinee performance of a speech
department play. “The Male Ani-
al,” and an OSC-University of
Washington basketball g a m e .
Dads w ill also have a chance to
attend classes and to inspect new
campus buildings and facilities.
The Dads club annually awards
five full-tuition scholarships to
needy and deserving students and
sponsors a h o s t, of other off-
campus activities for OSC stu
dents and alumni. -
The American Army was the
first army in the world to screen
against m alarial mosquitoes. The
step was taken in 1898 and greatly
reduced incidence of malaria.
BEEF STEW
CHILI CON U R N E
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OCCIDENT Fi°ur—25 ib- 2 *0 9
Silver Skillet, Corned beef
Be sure to attend the Occident Baking School
Thursday, «Ian. 22nd, 2 p.m. — Arcade Vhehtre_____
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Top Grade Beef
Fresh
Ground Beef
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Nebergall’s Best
LITTLE PIG
Large
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Morrell’s
Smoked Picnics » 39c Pure Lard
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