Soviet HfPubhcs- A 15-year plan has been started th ere th at
takes in 5,709,000 hectares of collective and state-ow ned farm s
T hat would be about 14,250,000 acres.
Protection of the Volga Valley, the U kraine and C entral
Russia from winds that blow o ff comprehension of what is perhaps
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crops, required summer fallowing,
prescriptions of pasturage and
woodland maintenance, orders for
forest nurseries for the growth of
34 billion (34,000,000,000) seedings
in the 15 years, demands for the
building of 44,230 ponds and res
ervoirs, for fertilizing prgrams,
and more.
Mr. Zon cites any number of
other individually large and im-
^pprta«« jobs that are ordered by i
the decree. He says that thousands j
of other requirements that take in
small details are stated by the
d«cree, evidently a document as
big as Babe the Blue Ox.
AU come within the category of
the things that some zealot in this
country is always naming with
the war cry, “There ought to be a
law.” Nobody is going to quarrel
with the stated purposes of the
Volga Valley Authhority.
The
quarrel of Americans with this
kind of Big Government authority ,
is that land management projects
of such magnitude can be put into
effect only with giant police forces
of the central government empow- (
ered to do anything to anybody
anywhere that may be ordered by
executive decree.
This is the
moral 1 make from Mr: Zon’s plain '
facts.
le u and ara um the biggest governmental farm -
de^rts is th<^objective of the plan, land management program ever
The winds bring drouth and dust heard of. I t is management that
storms tlxat are often destroyers of goes to the extent of proposing to
crops and soils——-as in 1946 and change the climatic and water con-
to some extent in 1948— in a ditions of a vast region,
region thas is called Russia’s A Fair Purpose
breadbasket.
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The basic purpose o f the Volga
U the Plantink of Valley Authority is identical with
34,000,000,000 tree seedlings to the stated purposes of our own
grow a vast network of shelterbelt valley
authority
proposals— to
forests on the middle and lower conserve soil and to increase pro-
reaches of (he Volga River Valley, ductivity. This is a fa ir purpose
, . ^ h.jJLthe,rC<ire ° / an articIe en_ anX m* n’» country. The zealous
.itUed The Volga Valley Author- conservationist cannot help but be
a m* « alin e impressed by the ease and simpli-
lublisbed by the Division of F or- city of devising a valley authority
;stry
Forest Products of the plan of greatest magnitude, with
u , » ti° n7 ’ THe author ig R a- power to drive through to conrple-
ihael Zon, a fellow of the Society Ubn io. a mere 13 years and with
if American Foresters. His essay unquestioning compliance required
s an excellent piece of factual re- of all the people. This compli-
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What I get out of the article is however.
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Are there objections on the part
tom Twin, aoiwana Cr—cawta, K»y»i
of any individuals or groups in
tbe territory of the Volga Valley
Authhority? Are injustices being
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the pet of Lt. and Mrs. George
H. Whitney of Fort Ord, Calif.,
who have been visiting Lt.
Whitney’s sister and fam ily, air.
and Mrs. B ill Preston of Co-
qnille.
Accompanying the Whitney’s
were their three children. Caro
line, Thomas, and Billy.
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JU L Y 21, 1948.
as Crescent City and return home
via Grants Pass.
Go To Minnesota— Mr. and Mrs
Richard McCuskey,
Lois and
Richie, left on Tuesday for M in
nesota. They w ill visit relatives
in the neighborhood of Duluth,
and expect to be away for two
weeks.
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Hot In California
Mrs. R. E. Smith of CoquiUe
who is visiting relatives at W at
sonville, California,
wrote her
husband recently that the central
area of California is experiencing
a reat hot wave. Mr. Smith plans
on driving to Watsonville soon to
bring Mrs. Smith and her mother
back to their CoquiUe home on
North Taylor street.
Visit Here From Atlanta. Georgia
La inly
About
' o,ka?
M r. Zon does .not touch on such
natural questions. He does tell,
however, in his factual report that
t|»ere are. to be planted “eight long,
continuous protection zones,” each
Daivu nt »9 with from 1
6 forest belts, each
t . ... si h«R from 30 to 60 meters wide,
' with Strips 300 meters wide separ-
pfc,. I,,/ atmg the belts, the total length of
the IW1M
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5.300 kilome-
tors— about 3,300 mile». (A meter
u 38 inches.)
This w ill mean
large slices out of any number of
farms. This w ill surely mean invu-
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si°n o f h u m an rig h ts on th o u san d s
o f fam ilies on th e co llectiv e fa rm s.
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B u t in tlie p hilosophy of th e
U S S R . F o rest S ervice, it is the
p lan th a t c o u n ts- "Ol th e fam ily or
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Some ofthe other elements of the
13-year plan decree to which all
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Something new in dog eti
quette was shown Sentinel
staffers Saturday when a pure
bred registered cocker spaniel
out of “M y Own Brucie'* stack,
came in to visit The Sentinel
office, and promptly saluted all
present by standing on his
haunches and coming to s smart
I tbe
How much police I
I power wiU be needed to enforce the ’
/ Moscow decree on millions of ’
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Sentinel Staffers
Returns From Wisconsin — Mrs.
George Terrio has returned to Co
quille after spending six weeks
visiting friends and relatives in
Wisconsin. She went from Co
quille to Milwaukee, and later
visited in Neenah, Menasha, Green
Bay and Bowler. Before return
ing home she stopped in Minne
apolis, Minnesota, to viait her
In Portland— H arry Johnson is in
grandson, Philip Seeber, and his
Portland this week on business.
wife.
He wiU be away for several days,
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On Penney Store Staff — Miss Return For V is lt-M r . and Mrs.
Waunda Kintzley, formerly sten Wayne Van Burger, formerly of
ographer at the Consolidated Coquille, now of Klamath FaUs,
Freight office, is now on the staff are spending two weeks visiting
of the J. C. Penney company store. friends and rplatives in CoquiUe
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and North Bend.
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Spends Week-End A t Powers—
week-end at Powers visiting her To Attend Photographers* Con
mother, Mrs. H. H . Edwards.
vention—M r. and Mrs. Ed Throck
morton wiU go to Gearhart on
On Business T rip —Mr. and Mrs. Saturday to attend a convention
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Orville Haga, and Bob Davidson of Oregon Photographers.
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attended a Frigidaire meeting in
Portland last week. Mrs. Haga Visit Here— M r. and Mrs. James
also visited with her sister while Nutter and three children of M er
rill, Oregon, visited in CoquiUe for
she was in the city.
several days with Mr. Nutter’s
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Returns From Portland — Mrs. ÜBcle and aunt, M r. and Mrs. J. V.
George Maynard returned by Sims. They left on Monday and
plane on Friday from Portland wUl drive down the coast as far
where she spent several days at*
tending to business matters.
— Rev. and Mrs. A . Brogden, and
son, Jack, of Atlanta, Georgia, are
Visiting in Coquille this week with
Mrs. Brogden’s mother, Mrs. M a r
garet Brewster.
The Brogden’s
came to CoquiUe from San Diego
where they visited two of their
daughters. They spent some time
also .in San Francisco where they
visited friends and w ill return via
Chicago where M r. Brogden has
a sister. This is their first visit
to the West Coast and they are
delighted with the Oregon cli
mate.
A t Home I I I — Mrs. WilUam Peart,
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a member o f the J. C. Penney From Küster. Washington — Mr.
company staff, is at home U1 this and Mrs. A rthur Kruse of "Küster,
week.
Washington, were week - end
guests at the home of M r. and
A t Herman’s— Howard Hunsaker Mrs. T. S. Stevens. Mrs. Kruse
trf iSalem is taking charge of Her is M r. Stevens’ sister.
man’s M en’s store in CoquiUe
during the two weeks that Chet In Waldport— M r. and Mrs. H a r
M urray is on vacation. M r, and old McCue spent Tuesday and
Mrs. M urray left on Monday Wednesday in Waldport attending
morning for Idaho where they are to property interests there. They
planning to play golf, swim and also attended a party "given In
fish for two weeks.
honor of Nancy Lee Ward.
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