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OSU to Offer Special Course OREGON STATE UNIVER SITY Inventory planning and continuous forest in ventory will be the main subjects covered in a special three-day short course to be offered at Oregon State Uni versity March 14 to 16. The short course, Manage ment Control in Modern for est Practice, will be directed by Prof. R. A. Yoder and will be taught by government and industrial forest experts as well as other OSU forestry professors. Other forestry short courses, earlier announced, to be given this year by Oregon State Uni versity include: Variable Plot Cruising, Jan. 24-26. Logging Safety Institute, Feb. 1-2. Lumber Drying Short Course, Feb. 26-March 3. Aerial Photographs and Their Use in Forestry, March 19-23. achool. Armed with new grants, the school is ready to start work ing with the $1 million research center which has been erected on the campus by the U.S. For est Service. McCulloch told the visitors that this cooperative effort which takes in the school and other departments of the col lege, the Bureau of Land Man agemcnt, the Forest Service and many other cooperating agen cics, make his program "one of the nation's lnrgest programs of forest research. This type of program is need ed because of the state's eco nomic dependence on its forest products, he said. Current investigation in for est management is centered on forest regeneration (second growth) and young growth man agement. This, researchers say, is becoming more and more im portant as the virgin old-growth Douglas fir is being cut out. Variety of Projects Projects include work on stor age of tree seeds; control of brush and "weed trees"; resist ance of seedlings to drought, heat and cold; and logging by helicopter. Other projects are studying Page 8B EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Jan. 21, 1063 i 1 1 Forestry Research Facilities Displayed OSU School Conducts Tour Of Programs By DAN SELLARD Of the Register-Guard CORVALLIS (Special) The School of Forestry at Oregon State University showed off its facilities and programs at a spe cial "press tour" here Friday. Reporters and industry associ ation representatives dog-trotted from one project to another, with a break for lunch with OSU's new president, James Jensen, and W. F. McCulloch, dean of the School of Forestry, Previously Independent Within the past few months, the School of Forestry has taken Into its program the Oregon For est Research Center, which was previously independent of the jjjjj, ., -., . .. ajar : lib oil i II " I I If 7 in- 'r-l ''V --il .1 , 1 1 I Mrs. Kim Cbing Studying Douglas Fir Seeds Morse Supports Passport Ruling WASHINGTON (.TV Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., is happy over new regulations worked out by the Justice and State de partments on passports for per- aons believed to be Communists. The Stato Department may withhold a passport from such a person under the new proced ure, but the department must be prepared to produce evi dence upon which the action is based. In a letter to Ally. (ion. Rob ert K. Kennedy, Morse wrote that it is long past time for I lie executive and legislative branches of the federal govern nient to observe the provisions of the Constitution which too often are left to the courts alone to protect. how to properly manage smaller ownerships; use of parasiticides and insecticides to control the damaging Douglas Fir bark beetles; relationship of soil to seedling survival; effects of burn ing slash on soil and seedling growth; and forest genetics studies to produce better trees through selection and breeding. Another line of research forest products has about 50 projects underway. These include promotion ot wood for new and different structural purposes; investiga tions to find uses for the potentially-valuable quarter-ton of bark which is harvested with each thousand board feet of logs; use of waste residues for composition board and pulp; seasoning studies; and continua tion of the old "post farm" tests, which were started at OSU thirty years ago. Goals Unchanged Although there is consider able integration of programs at the college, the same goals ap pear as in other years how to grow better trees and how to make better use of thorn. Throughout the campus, la boratories, equipped with mod ern testing, measuring, and "watching" apparatus, are staffed with hundreds of scien tists. But inside the old framework are new emphases for instance, entomology, which in forestry terms means the control of dam aging insects. The new U.S.F.S. laboratory, which will be staffed and in business this summer, will be devoted to this study and will be the largest entomology re search center in the nation. Among the bugs to be stud ied at the center and in the OSU labs are the Bark beetles which infest many acres of Douglas fir, with the pests bor ing into the bark and laying eggs which ti'rn into larvae which feed on the harkchan nels which should be supplying nourishment to the tree. Budworm Studies. Another pest being studied the spruce budworm, which chews on needles and other tree parts and is indiscriminate about what tree it attacks. These studies are more or less confined to finding more about the bug this knowledK will lead to better control methods. A parasite, which kills the bark beetle's children, is being watched with the goal in mind that perhaps It can be encour aged in its appetite and num bers. Scientists arc also finding that considerable damage is be ing inflicted by earthhound grubs. These grubs chew on the roots cf Douglas firs, especial ly in Christmas tree plantations and in newly-planted areas. Soil preparation is getting Us usual amount of attention. Sci ence has found that soil scari fication and fertilization helps grow trees faster but there may be bad side effects the faster a tree grows the 'more apt it is to have poor fiber. Lignin Program Lignin, the "glue" which holds the cells together in a tree, is still being pursued with an ac tive program at the research center. Little is known about lignin and current research is engaged in breaking it down. When enough is found about lignin, then it might be put to work in a productive pursuit, the researchers believe. A side effect would be the reduction of pollution much of the waste material which comes from a pulp plant is lignin. Some eighteen projects deal with the problems of forest re generation at OSU. Douglas fir seeds from Ari zona are being grown in outside beds, but, so far, are growing Just as slowly as they do in their native environment. But, since the Arizona tree grows Spokane Man Negroes File Court Suit CHICAGO W The parents of 12 Negro children involved in a school transfer that touched off a sit-in demonstration on Chi cago's South Side have filed suit in U.S. District Court against the city's school officials. A suit filed Friday seeks $500,000 in punitive damages from the Chicago Board of Edu cation and School Supt. Benja min u. Willis. It also seeks an injunction to force them to re vise pupil transfer policies. Tho plaintiffs contend their children were among 34 seventh graders transferred from Burn- side to Gillespie, both elemen tary schools with sizeable Negro enrollments. The changes were effective Jan. 2. Some of the children, the Ne gro parents contend, should have been shifted to Perry, an all-white school in the area. 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(Inxernment pn.Hlon. end Mlerte., 2l Information on how lo qualify fr a I'.S. government Job. tor - A. AMH (Mr tt athr Exift Directions to Your Horn - SICK ? trf it ft (') After You See Your Doctor. Bnnj Your Pieicriptien To Cs. Complete line of Sick-room supplies. HIRONS DRUG STORE m K.st 18th Ate. with less water than the Oregon tree, it might be that it can be crossed with an Oregon tree and planted on the dry south slopes to grow faster with less water. 'Beating the Heat' Reasons for the high mortal ity rate in seeded and planted areas are also being pursued. One project is finding out how to "beat the heat" which often kills small trees in the summer time. In the products research line, considerable attention is being given to particle-board produc tion. This type of product, it is hoped, will make a high use of some materials which are being wasted at the millsites in the state. School Board To Hear Plan The possibility of establishing an "instructional materials" center for Lane County will be discussed Monday at a meet ing of the Eugene School Board. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. in the School Administra tion Building, 275 E. Seventh Ave., Eugene. Under the suggested plan, the center would carry film, tape and various other educational aids, which could be used by all school districts in the county. Supt. Millard Z. Pond will give a complete report on the project Monday. The center would be operated from the Lane County scnooi superintendents office. In other business Monday, the board will: Discuss budget planning for the 1962-63 academic year. Consider a proposed pol icy to govern maintenance of physical facilities and use of students funds to buy school equipment. Author-Historian to Speak At University This Week Irving Howe well-known au thor, critic and historian will be at the University of Oregon this week as the Honors College colloquim speaker. Howe will give two public ad dresses as well as holding a colloquim with the students of the Honors College. On Wednesday, he will give an evening address in the ball room of the Erb Memorial Union at 8 p.m. He will talk on "Problems of Mass Culture." Thursday afternoon he will speak in 138 Commonwealth Hall at 4 p.m. on "Mass Culture and Working Class Life." Both addresses are open to the pub lic. For his colloquim meeting Thursday night, Howe will use "Mass Society and Culture" as the discussion topic. Howe has been a member of the Brandeis University faculty since 1953. He is now a profes sor of English there, j His publications include: "The U.A.W. and Walter Reuther" (co-author): "Sherwood Ander son, A Critical Biography," in the American Men of Letters series; "William Faulkner: A Critical Study;" "Politics and the Novel;" "A Treasury of Yid dish Stories" (co-editor); "The American Communist Party 1919-1957: A Critical History" (co-author). 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