Page 6 Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, Feb. 21, 1948
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
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"-raiTOR AND PUBLISHER Alton F. Baker
MANAGING EDITOR . William M. Tugman
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to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and
neiprui in the development of constructive community policy,
Too Costly To Keep Open
People of the McKenzie area are present
ing a request to the Oregon state highway
. . commission to maintain snow clearance and
keep the McKenzie highway open as far as
":' Hand lake throughout the winter season,
This revives an old issue. Snow clearance on
, .the McKenzie was stopped by the highway
department before the war for these reasons:
; OPENING of the new year-round Willam
ette highway opened new and equally con
i venient areas tor winter sports.
DEVELOPMENT by the forest service of
the Hoodoo Bowl and ledge on the Santiam
highway provided additional facilities, only
about 30 miles more distant from Eugene.
;. .. Z SURVEYS have Indicated that the future
'-" all-year McKenzie route should be via Clear
Lake to a junction with the Santjam because
an all-year route on the old line above Yale's
' ranch would be too costly to build and main
Jj tain.
. - COSTS of snow clearance to Hand Lake
ran something over $5 per car per week end,
'. and department felt there were too many needs
for its funds on projects of wider use espec
ially after alternate areas for snow sports had
"'' " been made available.
.'JL. Nevertheless the petition of the McKenzie
.r River Protective and Development Associa-
L' lion (Dayton Thomson, president, and Ruth
ill West, secretary) is presented here for the
new arguments which it advances:
."" It has been brought to the attention of
our Association by sportsmen and Eugene and
McKenzie Highway business men, that there
is a definite need for keeping the McKenzie
highway open as far as the Hand Lake ski area.
Ski experts have pronounced the skiing
, conditions at Hand Lake to be ideal for ski
ing. Highways are being kept open to other
ski grounds that are not as popular as the one
at Hand Lake.
The Obsidians have a sum on hand of
$40,000, to use in building a lodge at Hand
Lake. They will proceed with construction of
this building as soon as they arc assured that
i- the highway will be kept open.
On February 3rd over 500 cars of ski en
thusiasts went to White Branch and tried to
' ') use the grounds there, which were inadequate.
If the highway was open to Hand Lake, many
more would take advantage of using that ski
.. area. , "
We would like to ask that, you seriously
sr consider the possibility of keeping the McKen-
zie Highway open to Hand Lake ski grounds,
If you find that this can be accomplished, we
ask that you use all speed possible in opening
.... the highway so that it may be used yet this
" winter.
In our opinion, it is unlikely that the high
way commission can afford to grant this re
quest and frankly we do not think it should
because of the many more urgent and im
portant needs for highway funds, including
certain sections of the McKenzie which need
almost complete rebuilding to bring them up
t.to modern standards to handle their increas-
S'ing traffic.
The Clear Lake cutoff presents the only
tT'practical plan for an all-year road via the
EMVIcKenzie. It adds only 9 miles, Eugene to
j Bend; it would place Hqodoo as close as
'"Hand lake; it would serve all existing re-sorts
and business on the McKenzie to Yale's,
-leaving out only Lost Creek ranch. Prewar
cost estimates were $1,200,000 (probably
-double now), but the line lies entirely in
-federal forest and would be built entirely
f with federal forest highway funds.
'Zl "There Is no place quite like Hand Lake."
For this argument of some local ski en
thusiasts we have some purely sentimental
I sympathy but not a grain of support. The
mountains are full of admirable sites for
'.winter sports. Hoodoo is only "cross lots"
from 'the famous "sand hills" adjacent to
Hand lake. The north slope of Diamond peak
could easily be made accessible from the
summit of the Willamette. We are aware
that some of the more advanced ski experts
lo6k down on present facilities at Willamette
summit and at Hoodoo as "baby stuff." In
administering highway funds of some 7,500
miles of road system, the state commission
must consider these facts:
. , Winter sports onthusinsts arc only a small
percentage of the total population.
' Of the enthusiasts, only a still smaller
fraction arc experts and the majority "dubs ",
With the desire to have for this area a
facility comparable to Portland's famous
Timbcrline Lodge on Mount Hood, we are
in accord, but that came out of the lavish
period of WPA, not highway funds. Looking
.' to the future, Hoodoo seems to have many
'J advantages for such a development because
it could serve Salem, Corvallis, Albany, Eu
gene, Bend, Redmond and many other popu
lations, but the Diamond peak area has ad
vantages of rail as well as all-year highway
:; connections. U. S. Forest Service and high
way department have always been extreme
ly cooperative irr legitimate developments,
but, it is necessary for us to remember that
they MUST consider "numbers served" and
long range relation to ROAD SYSTEM in
il Inanaging their funds.
London recently had a record fog, sug
gesting a new slogan for the city now you
see it, now you don't.
Metal hooks are coming back for ladies'
.-.c idresses. The eyes have never been off of
them.
A timid man is one who feels he ought
to limp a little when he carries a cane.
.The New York Purchasing Department
offered 2500 white mice for sale. Think of
the mothers who will jump up on kitchen
chairs.
Some girls proclaim their beauty from
the hose tops.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By PETER EDSON
Register-Guard Washington Correspondent
Used Car Trade-in Racket
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (NEA) A new chisel
on QPA ceiling prices for used cars traded in
against the purchase of new cars has just been un
covered, and as everyone with an old buggy to
swap may run into this racket, frequently within
the next few months, it's worth getting wise for
self-protection.
Suppose you take your old reliable 1940 model
de luxe Whippersnapper Six into Dealer D to trade
In on a new car. Dealer D looks over what's left
of your family joy wagon and makes you three
propositions:
"1. Give me vour used car now and I'll allow
you your used car ceiling price of $500 to the pur
chase of a new car which will be delivered to you
in May or June.
"2. I'll give you the ceiling price of $500 cash
for your used car 'as is' and you can go buy a new
car any place you please.
"3. I II allow you S300 on your used car ana de
liver you a new car in three weeks."
Proposition number three is obviously a hold-up
game to make you pay a premium of $200 to get a
new car in a hurry. If you want a new car that
bad, you'll be sucker enough to accept the deal. If
no one finds out about it, you and the dealer can
probably get away with it. But if your neighbors or
that lone list of Deoole who placed their orders for
new cars ahead of you find out about it, that might
not be so good. And there is the further question
of whether such a deal is legal under OPA maxi
mum price regulations.
At first glance, it might appear that um regu
lations couldn't touch this case. On its face, it looks
like selling a used car for less than the authorized
ceiling price. Nobody can do anything to anyone
for selling below ceiling.
Taking Chances With the Black Market
As OPA Enforcement Division looks on this
case, however, it isn't a used car sale. It's a new
car purchase. And what proposition number three
really amounts to is buying a new car for $200
above celling price. That's black market.
The dealer does have a couple of outs which
would have to be checked carefully. Under OPA's
new car pricing regulations, the dealer is required
to give the customer a "reasonable" trade-in allow
ance on an old car. The dealer may, however, ap
praise an old car offered in trade on a new car and
estimate that it will take say $200 to put the old
car in condition for resale.
On this basis, if Dealer D could show you that
It would take $200 worth of spare parts and labor
to put your old Whippersnapper Six In condition
for resale, then he would be justified in making
you an offer for only $300 trade-in allowance.
Dealer Has Margin of Protection
The dealer does have a certain margin to day
with here. If the dealer makes an estimate that it
will cost $200 to put a used car in resale condition
and it turns out the repairs cost only $150, OPA
would not consider it a violation in selling the old
car at the celling price of $500.
The dealer has further protection under the
used car price ceiling regulations. There are really
two auowame ceilings on a used car. One is a
specific dollars-and-cents price on cars sold "as is."
That means without repairs. The other ceiling al
lowable is a 25 per cent markup to cover the cost
of putting cars in saleable condition.
Under all this latitude, it might be hard to (ret
a court decision that ceiling price regulations had
been violated on the Whippersnapper deal outlined
above.
OUT OF THE WOODS
By JIM STEVENS
Farm Forestry
This week Forester Bill Hagenstein speaks:
In the Douglas fir region there are somewhat
more than 2 million acres of farmer-owned for
estan Important part of the total forest area. On
the average these farm forest acres are at low ele
ction, on good sites, and are very accessible. Many
of the farm forests are on lands logged from the
early part of the last century to about 1910-15
lands which for the most part were never indus
trially owned. These lands today support an ex
cellent growing stock with a good distribution of
age classes.
These 2 million acres may have an average
production of somewhere around 750 million to a
billion board feet of raw material per year.
farm lorests In some cases are intermingled
Ith industrially-owned lands or are situated on
its margins. The implication of a good job of for
estry on these farm forests in fire protection alone
makes one feel good. The success of any forest
management program hinges first on protection
rrom me. -a lugn degree of cooperative effort be
tween farm and industrial forest owners in pro
tection is one tning in which farm and industrial
foresters have a mutual opportunity. We have
some very fine examples of cooperation in this
field already.
Forest Industry's Tart
Success 111 forest management, once ademiafe
fire protection is assured, depends on cutting prac
tices which will assure as much natural reproduc-
1011 as possic-ie and the making ud for failures
through some sort of artificial restockinir. If lim.
ber growing is to be conducted on private lands
as a Business, uie lancts must be kept busy pro
ducing income.
Once the woods' aspects of any -national for
estry program are satisfactorily in hand, the next
phase is paying the bill. Utilization of the forest
material must furnish the wherewithal. And here
lies the forest products industry's opportunity and
responsibility in farm .forests. The opportunity
raw material for conversion: the responsibility
operating the farm forests so as to maintain pro
ductiveness. From Old Forests To New
We ore beginning to repeat here the forest his
tory of the older regions when more and more of
the Industry's raw matrial will come from man
aged man-grown forests instead of from the acci
dental old-growth forest which nature so gener
ously provided. As the raw material becomes
smaller in size, methods and practices of use will
be adjusted to this type of material. We are al
ready in the period of adjustment, for the plvwood
plants are using red fir for core stock, some of
the pulp mills arc using several species down to
five-inch and six-inch diameters in short lengths,
and the shingle mills are experimenting with spe
cies other than western red cedar to determine
their practicability.
If the transition from old-growth to young
growth is as effective as in the older regions, the
use of each raw material for its main value as a
commodity will bring the prime economic advan
tage of realizing more fully what the forest soil
will grow. This, in twin, will set up silviculture
as a business.
The lumber industry is fully cognizant of Its
interest in farm forests. The following motion was
unanimously passed by the Joint Committee on
fm , Conscrvnlin at a meeting on April 4. 1945:
The Industry desires that technical forestry serv
ice in fire protection, cutting practices, manage
ment plans and marketing be offered and fur
nished to small forest owners by the nearest tree
farm or the forestry staff of the associations."
The lumber industry will support and aid anv
sound program which will bring the some 2,000,000
acre of. farm, lorests under forest management.
Drive Opened
To Aid Jobless
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 m
The Labor Department launched
an attempt today to beat back a
rising tide of unemployment it
expects to leave 6,000,000 jobless
by June 30.
The United States Employment
Service will attack the problem
by asking employers to list all
job vacancies with USES.
Latest census bureau figures
place present unemployment at
about 3,000,000.
USES Director Robert C. Good
win estimated yesterday that of
8,000,000 discharged members of
the armed services, 6,000,000
looked for work and 3,300,000
registered with USES.
He added many others were
expected to register, because 4,
00,000 more veterans will be back
in the United States before the
end of June.
Job openings already listed with
USES, Goodwin said, are not ade
quate to meet this flood of appli
cants.
Troop Arrivals
Fourteen ships were scheduled to arrive
at U. S. ports Wednesday with more
than 8,375 servicemen.
DUE AT NEW YORK:
Cody Victory, from Bremerhaven 977
troops. Including headquarters and head
quarters battery, batteries A, B and D
of 135th AAA group battalion; medical
detachments. company B and service
company of 15th tank battalion, and
3487th quartermaster truck comoanv.
Fair Isle, from Lc Havre 1,702 troops I
and 33 civilians, including headquarters !
ana service .companies, companies A, B '
and C and medical detachments of 80th i
amphibious tractor battalion. !
DUE AT SAN FRANCISCO: t
USS O'Conto, from Sal pan 1,629 un- i
designated army and naval personnel.
Cavalier, from Guam 148 undesignated
personnel. I
DUE AT SAN DIEGO: !
Monrovia 1,555 undesignated naval i
personnel. I
LST 22145 undesignated naval per- 1
sonnel. i
DUE AT SEATTLE:
Kingston Victory, from Yokohama I
1,428 undesignated personnel.
DUE AT LOS ANGELES: !
Hocking, from Saipan 1.826 undesig
nated personnel.
CRASH ON WILLAMETTE t
Two cars became entangled
Tuesday afternoon as they crossed
Willamette St. on Seventh Ave. A 1
vehicle driven by S Letha Mae
Crownover, OoSurg, moved a bit
to the left and knocked a fender
from the machine of Oliver G. '
Hughson, Portland, who was going
the same direction, a police re- !
Reliance
port said.-
Formal Opening
SATURDAY.
FEBRUARY 23
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Hwy. 99 and Oregon Ave.'
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Batteries
Auto Accessories
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98
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8 to 18.
All Woo
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SWEATER
$98
Another example ol EOS quality at rock-bottom prices! Here's
a beautiful, rib knit, pure wool yarn "Campus" sweater at a
cost that will surprise you when you see the quality. Canary,
Oregon Blue and Crimson colors in sizes 28 to 36.
Corduroy
BOBBY PANTS
$
style for young men in the 6 to 10 age bracket.
weight corduroy In grey, brown and natural
2
.... and look at these values!
Cotton Undershirts and Briefs, white.'. 59c ea.
Water Repellent Ski Caps, ear flaps ....$1
Combed Cotton Pajamas, elastic waist $1.98
Suede Flannel Plaid Shirt .....$1.98
Sanforized Dress Shirt, vat dyed $1.45
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