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SECOND SECTION The Coquille Valley Sentinel SECOND SECTION PAGE NINE — mmw — First Forest - Reseeding Law In Nation Enaded For Oregon By Stewart H. Holbrook in N. Y. Herald-Tribune i' Back in 1M1 John Dolbeer, of Hum-i ixtldt Bay, in the Wert Coast logging stroy and öfter has destroyed young forest of 2,000 acres in six woods, moved into hl* tall timber an hours. And these are just the forests extraordinary machine he had de that must be protected it timber is vised. It was a donkey engine. Th* arrogant bullwhackers who drove the to be a crop, harvested in cycles like grain except that the cycle between Dolbeer logging oxen snorted in crops is nearer a cehtury than a sea- amused contempt to see such a con traption in to* wood*. They Mt son. Thoughtful lumbermen, of whom around on stump*, chewing tobacco there are many, have long since and jeering, and the oxen chewed learned that timber is a crop. Hence their cuds disinterestedly a* John forth, sharp-eyed inspectors, all ran a cable from engine into the woodsmen of long experience, will woods and wrapped an end around a observe carefully the cutting meth gigantic tog. , ods of Oregon loggers to see that seed John, paying no heed to the ribald trees ar* left on all areas. These in lumberjacks, returned to the engine spectors will be directed by Gover- “J Zl— o-l« A. StW. <X On» big log came in a-snorting—in les* whose pet v-ui.«». legislation h». has been this this time than it would have taken a new conservation act. yoke of oxen to turn around. From Oregon is the first lumber-produc that date began toe conversion of ing state In'the Union, cutting some logging bulls into hamburger. It was 4,500,000,000 feet annually. Making the first great revolution in timber, sure that the thousands of acres of that of steam power. cutover land have the proper seed A second and even greater revolt»», tree«, and then of protecting the rtew lion came this month when the Ore forests, is going to be a gigantic un- gon I^egistature passed a forest con dertaking. servation act, the first of its kind in th* United State*. Nub of toe act 1* Sectton 3, which reed*: “Any per son, firm or corporation cutting live timber for commercial use from land* within the state shall, in order to ef fectuate toe policies of this act, leave reserve tree* of commercial species deemed adequate under normal candi- tion* to maintain continuous forest growth and/or provide satisfactory Oregon has 322 machine, wood restocking to insure forest growth." working and sheet-metal shops suit loggers’ Own M m The act is enough to make John able for conversion into defense in Dolbeer, or even Paul Bunyan, turn dustries the Oregon Economic Coun over in his grave. It provides that cil told Governor Sprague this week. the state shall bave police power over These shops now employ 4206 men all logging operations to see that in and would need 11,670 skilled work pine logging all tree* I*«* than six ers for capacity production, the re teen incite* in diameter are left for port pointed out. A total of 15,845 seed, and that in Douglas fir logging skilled workers were listed in the re not leas than 5 per cent at the ori port as available for defense produc ginal stand 1* toft for th* same pur tion jobs in this state. pose. This law is not just another at tempted crackdown by government on the lumber Industry which often, and many times unjustly, has served as whipping boy for Federal Admin istrations since 1833. The law was written, proposed and fostered by Oregon loggers and lumbermen themselves, working closely with ranching and agricultural interests. Basically it is an attempt by thought ful lumbermen to control the irres ponsible minority of their fellows at the old-fashtaned cut-out-and-get- out school. It is a practical taw, based not on esthetic theory, but on long experience. Fifty years of logging in western Oregon has shown that Douglas fir, the dominant specie*, will bountifully reseed cut over land if given half a chance. The new Oregon law, which doubtless will be followed by similar legislation in Washington State, 1* specific regarding the proper number of seed trees. Once natural restocking ta under way, the only big danger 1* forest fire. The raw products of moot in dustries can be protected with ease. Not so timber. The lumbermen’s raw product is out there under the sky, unwalled, unfenced, virtually toe great outdoors itself. It is used and often abused by the public—hunters, fishermen, berry picker*, camper*, picnicker*—and abused most of all by toe hordes of motorists who throw lighted cigarettes, cigars or matches from their cars. It is these people and not lumberjacks who set fire to the foret. Le*« than five per cent of man-caused forest fires in Oregon and Washington are set by logging operations. 3.288 Fire, to IMS During 1949 the forest products in dustries of Oregon and Washington spent a total of $1.800,000 to protect what are laughingly c»»«1 "private forests” from fires set by a public which professes to love the great out doors and last summer showed its love by setting more than 3,200 fires in the two state*. Both state* adequate fire-, protection laws, and .need them. In summer, togging is regulated by toe which 1^-.' <ir*eord1 humidity If the graph drop* to a reading of 30, legging In Douglas fir ceases. I/ookout* high on mountain peak* scan the timber for smoke. Every logging camp in the two states is equipped with horn, pumps and other tools. Many camps go to work at 3 a. m. and quit at noon, just when humidity usually begin* to fall. It 1* the public that must be taught that one match or cigarette can de O, IV Adam*, state director for vo cational education, has been granted an indefinte leave of absence from his state job in Oregon to serve Uncle Sam. Adams, who has been away from Salem for the past six months on a temporary leave, is a lieutenant commander in th* naval reserve and is in charge of the educational pro gram for both civilian employees and enlisted men at the Bremerton navy yard. " Oscar Paulson, assistant di rector, is pinch hitting for Adams during hi* absence. C. Evans, superintendent of the in stitution, expects to leave soon tor a tour of midwest and eastern state* where he will visit other institution* of this kind in order to gather new ideas to be incorporated into the Ore- institution. , total of 413 Oregon motorist* were arresetd by state police for drunken driving during 1940 according to the annual report of Cha*. P. Pray, superindent Violation of the basic rule resulted in 502 arrests and 318 motorists were arrested for reckless driving. The changes in the assessment and taxpaying dates voted by the last leg islature do not become effective until next year. Even then the transition will be so gradual as to be scarcely noticeable. Tax levies will be rtltade next November a* usual except that they will be reduced to 50 per cent of the normal levies. This means that when the property owners goes to pay his taxes next March, If he pays cash in order to take the discount he will be called on to pay only .50 per cent of his normal tax. tf> however, he is of the class that takes advantage of the installment payments his March installment will be up to the usual average but there will be only two installments to pay instead of the cus tomary four. - Then in July, 1942, the various tax levying bodies—school district, city, county, state, etc.—will make another levy. This one will be for a full year the first instalment of which will become due in November, 1842, with subsequent installments due every three month* thereafter. 'Oregon now has approximately 18,700 men in Uncle Sam’s armed farces according to record* of state selective service headquarter*. This number includes 16,483 officers and men commissioned or enlisted through regular army, navy and marine corps channels, and more than 2200 who have been inducted for a year of training under the selective service act By the end of June, according, to Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state director of selective service, there will be more than 20,000 Oregon men in the armed forces of the nation. Of the 16,483 Oregon men commissioned or enlisted through regular channel* 6,004 are in the regular army and organized reserves, 5715 are in the Oregon national guard now in active service, 3,964 are in the navy and naval reserve and 810 are in the ma rine oorps. - . " The cash balance in the state treasury hit a new all-time high this week with a total of $19,278,350 to its credit, it was reported by Leslie M. Scott, stat* treasurer. Heavy income tax payments acocunt for the high total at this time. The action of five Portland hospi tals in increasing their charges tor the care of injured workmen whose bill* are paid by the industrial acci-\ dent commission has revived discus sion of a proposed state hospital to handle these cases. Th* suggestion ha* been advanced by responsible suxsisa Specials from China The oaiem city council to giving consideration to an ordinance creating a restricted building sone around the state capitol group. Thia action is being taken a* the result of a storm of protest aroused by the proposal to locate another filling station on Cap itol street directly across from land being acquired by the state for the Gasoline taxes totalling $2,955,688.- 50 for the first three months of 1941 showed an Increase of 1404,804.53 LARGE $4* AC Clothes HampersWe 9 W MEDIUM $A AC Clothes Hampers Substantial $A AC Child’. Rocker A.V3 Purkev Furniture Don’t Forget Mother on MOTHER'S DAY with a Photograph of yourself Special—One 8x10 The Board of Control has agreed to sell a ten-acre tract on the state hospital farm southeast of Salem to the city for use as a garbage dump. The tract includes a deep ravine which the city wants for this purpose. $1.00 CURTIS STUDIO from City Building DISTRIBUTOR LOdtfOR THIS SIGN AT STANDARD STATIONS TAYLOR A SECOND STS. COQ&LLE TWO STATIONS—NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST CORNERS A third act of the recent legislative session was made the target for attack this week when the Association Against Public Taxes for Private school* started circulating petitions in ah effort to,place the free text book bill on the ballot. The act under fire extends the use of free text books to pupils enrolled in parochial and private schools a* well as those in public school* who are already en joying this privilege. Sponsors of the referendum which is understood to have the backing of the Oregon Parent-Treachers association, must secure 15,866 verified signatures of registered voters by June 13 in order to prevent the act from becoming effective. The prediction of Speaker Robert S. Farrell, Jr., that the legislature will be called into special session if this nation becomes embroiled in the world war, is not taken seriously by state officials generally. Governor Sprague’s only reaction to the pre diction was to call attention to the fact that the state has just gotten rid of a legislative session and nothing now on the political horizon would appear to point to the need for an other gathering of the lawmakers be fore January. 1943. over the same period In 1840, accord proposed new office building. ing to a report by Secretary of State Snell. Gasoline tax collections for each of the three months in the quar ter showed an increase over the com parable month a year ago. 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