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BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT — BROOKINGS, OREGON
Thursday, March 29, 1956
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the wood had been kept free of
fungus attack in two ways: it
had been kept dry, as in weath-1
erproof structures or in a dry
climate, or it had been kept
thoroughly and permanently sat
urated. A fungus is a plant. If
BY
Forest Products Laboratory. the wood is too dry- for it to
grow and spread, decay does not
To the Albert Claytons, came
Forest Service
occur.
If the wood is thoroughly a girl on the 22nd; the Jot*
US. Department of Agriculture
saturated, the fungus is then Whites, a toy on the same day;
One- of A Series
"drowned out.” The range of and a boy to the Allen Slatean
activity of fungi lies between 20 on the 26th. These were all re
FALLACY! That all wood in
fiercent moisture content of the ported by Dr. Ronniger’s office.
the course of time “naturally”
wood and a "soaking wet" con
decays as a result of age.
ditioned in which all air Is ex* governor added.
I This fatalistic concept ignores eluded.
kThis new pattern of industrial
! the true cause of decay and may
growth in Oregon started several
Hermiston, and Corvallis. At the will produce 10,000 of the long lead the user to neglect the
years ago when pulp company«
E. E. Wilson farm, near Cor- tailed birds and at Hermiston proper precautions against it. Plan For Timber
suddenly discovered vast quan
vallis, 13,000 pheasants are now- 8,000 chukars will be proudced Time or a&e itself has nothing
tities of ’.'ft-over wood virtually
scheduled lor raising; Ontario
to do with the decay of wood Payroll Increase
on their doorsteps, the governor
The White House .when remodel
explained. It is estimated today
ed in 1949, was found ta contain In 10 Years
that two billion board feet of
sound timbers that ha* been in
Oregon’s billion dollar timber once wasted or poorly used wood
place since 1816. The Fairbanks industry will flourish under a 25 now brings back returns to saw
house, a wood structure in Ded percentpayroll increase within mills.
ham. Mass., is standing struct the next 10 years, Governor
As to the possibilities for wood
urally intact after three cent Elmo Smith recently predicted use in the future. Gov Smith
uries. Timbers several hundred in a siieech before the West Cited a recent survey in Ians
years old have been recovered Coast Lumbermen's association. county where it was found .hat
from tlwe ruins of Indian pueblos
Governor Smith said that im sawmill left-overs, scarcely used
in Arizona and New Mexico.
proved utilization of timber and except for fuel, added up to X
A part of a Roman emperor's wood wastes is bringing about i staggering estimated woodpile
house-boat that sank long ago new pattern which may well* de- to lx1 worth $22,500,000 a year
in Lake Nemi was sound enough termine the industrial future of for that one county alone.
after nearly 2,000 to lie ident the northwest for the next half
The \V *st Coast I.umliermen*»
ified by the Forest Producis century. He forecasts an increase association was praised by Gov
I aboratory as spruoe. A log 7 of 25.000 Jobs in the industry ernor Smith for its long record
feet in diameter was found some which now employees at least of leadership in forestry, ’umber
years ago in a tunnel being dug i OO.OOO iiersona.
promotion and public service.
150 feet below the bod of the
Governor Smith said the state
"This can be done without in
Yakima River In Washington. A creasing the use of virgin raw of Oregon as a silent partner in
pieoe of it was sent to the Forest material," Governor Smith ex all fonext products industries has
Products Laboratory and the plained. "It can be done by an certain obligations!toward assur
wood was identified as an ex’ expansion of the pulp and paper, ing an honest and just tax
tinct species of sequoia, of an age hardboard, wood fabricating and structure, encouraging friendly
estimated by geologists as 12 re-manufacturing industries.’» relations between employers and
10 a.m . to 12 NOON
million years.
“Any consideration of Oregon’s employees, encouraging perpet'
During the progress of the long-range future without giving ual cropping of fores' lands, and
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
thousands or perhaps millions of full study to the part the forest steping up the forest research
years wood constantly immersed products industry will play program to deve’op more by-
in water or wet soil gradually would be an empty gesture," the products from wood.
undergoes chemical changes (not
to be confused with true decay)
that result in a loss of sorap of
the original strength. This mill-
enial process that involves only
immersed wood, however, has
no practiehl significance for cur
rent structures.
These examples prove that
wood does not necessarily decay
with age at all. Decay Is the re
sult of one thing only, and that
BROOKINGS
is the attack of wood-destroying
fungi. In the cases mentioned
SOME CO M M O N
FALLACIES
ABOUT W OOD
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Because better birds will be I
available for the sportsmen by
raising fewer, hatches in game
bird farms of the state has been
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cut, slightly, this year. Approx-
imatel.v 31,000 upland g a m e
birds will be raised at the three
game farms located at Ontario,
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