HGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) mail tribune
Sunday, December 28, 1934
Cooperation Said
Key to Success in
Some of Phases
Local Organization
Cited as Example
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune City Editor .
The lumber industry is full of
contradictions.
It is one of the most highly
competitive of all industries. At
the same time, it is utterly de
pendent on cooperation for
much of its long-range success.
It is an industry of little
"one-horse" operators called
"gyppos," and of mammoth tim
ber empires, and of operations
somewhere in between.
It is an industry dependent on
unstable markets, on the weath
er, on actions of government,
and on a public which, general
ly, is unfamiliar with its prob
lems, and - is frequently un
sympathetic. Its foes include fire, bugs, dis
ease, and, sometimes, the in
ability of industry members to
get along with each other.
Jumble of Ownerships
, Companies formed to harvest
the vast timber stands of the Pa
cific Northwest are a strange
jumble of partial ownerships, in
terlocking directorships, and ob
scure hierarchies of companies-within-
companies, holding-companies,
operating companies and
sales companies.
The industry also has a
tangle of trade organizations,'
set up for different purposes,
which sometimes conflict, some
times cooperate and sometimes
ignore each other. They range
from such huge and powerful
groups as the West Coast Lum
bermen's association down to
small, specialized and local
groups of loggers or millmen.
The attitudes of lumbermen
vary as much as they them
selves do and they are, by and
large, a bunch of individualists.
A declining number still oper
te on the "cut out and get out"
philosophy which denuded the
hills of the midwest, and robbed
future generations of a continu
ing source of wealth. ..
Obligation To Future
More and more, the industry
is coming to realize that it owes
fan obligation to the future an
obligation to see that continuing
"crops" of lumber, will be avail
able, and that cut-over land will
again, in time, bear the green
gold of timber. .
This attitude is known by sev
eral names; sustained yield and
tree farming are two. They are
not synonymous, but both the
sustained yield program of the
state and federal agencies and
the tree, farms of the industrial
operators are dedicated to the
same end a perpetual harvest
of mature trees, and a careful
protection of the growing, im
mature trees. .
"Conservation," to a modern
forester, does not mean forests
sitting idly, while over-ripe
lumber rots, and bugs and fires
destroy the economic values that
took centuries to develop.
Meaning of Conservation
. . Instead . conservation means
harvesting ripe or overripe tim
ber, thus employ in e thousands
of men in what iy Oregon's big
gest single industry.
It means protecting the
streams and watersheds so vital
to the growing cities and indus
tries. It means the safeguarding of
the forests from the ravages of
bugs and forest fires.
It means the perpetuation of
wildlife and fish.
In short it means the fullest
use of the forest lands for Jheir
greatest possible long-range pro
ductivity, for the benefit of the
greatest number of people.
This type of conservation at
the governmental level goes
back to the days of President
Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford
Pinchot. It is more recently than
that, however, that lumbermen
began to realize that their own
best interests lay along the same
lines. '
Takes Hold Recently
And only in recent years, par
ticularly since World War II
when timber was heavily over
cut, has the idea taken hold
strongly.
Because the lumber industry
is so important to southern Ore
gon, furnishing more than half
the money in circulation, a look
at conservation in this area
would seem appropriate.
The governmental agencies
here which manage timberlands
chiefly the Bureau of Land
Management and ; the Forest
Service operate under regula
tions which have long required
the observance of the sustained
yield principle.
- While privately-owned lands
are under no such strict regula
tions, here too the ideal of per
petual forests is growing. It is
. best exemplified in tree farms
of Jackson county, which now
cover more than 200,000 acres of
the country's best forest land.
There are nine such tree farms,
ranging in size from BO acres to
LUMBER HwllSW lEGLMEl FULL
IF COnTnUUHCTIOHS OTP ROBLECiSI
TREE FARM CERTIFICATES Four Jack
son county tree farms' were certified at
ceremonies here recently. Shown above are
Floyd Hart, vice-president of the Industrial
Forestry association, who presented IFA certif
icates; J. W. Fitzgerald, of the 3B Tree Farm;
William Schmidt, of the Oregon Switzerland
Tree Farm; L. L. (Doc) Simpson, secretary-manager-forester
of the Southern Oregon
Conservation and Tree Farm association; B.
80,000 acres.
The educational and "mission
ary" work which led to this aus
picious start toward a stable for
est economy was done by an or
ganization with the ponderous
but descriptive name of .South
ern . Oregon Conservation and
Tree Farm association.
SOCTFA was organized in
1947 when about 12 companies
decided they needed a group to
represent their joint interests.
Before it was out of the forma
tive stage, some 40 firms had
joined. There are now between
90 and 100 member-companies,
and the membership fluctuates
slightly as firms come and go.
Only one of 'the major lumber
operators in the county does not
belong. The member-companies
account for about 80 per cent
of the lumber production in
southern Oregon.
Activities Expand
The original objective of
SOCTFA was simply to encour
age the long-range conservation
and use of forest land. But as
time went on and as members
found that . he organization
could serve as a "sounding
board" for their points of view,
and as a service and coordinat
ing agency, its activities ex
panded. The man who . has ... served
SOCTFA as executive secretary,
manager and forester since its
inception is a wiry, decisive for
mer federal . forester named
Lewis L. (Doc) Simpson, whose
single passion is service to his
members whether this involves
tangling with, some government
bureau (the state highway com
mission is a good example), or
getting a replacement for a brok
en part to a remote forest opera
tion quickly.
To anyone familiar with
SOCTFA over a period of time,
it is obvious that Doc's person
ality has had much to do with
welding the organization into a
functioning and useful entity.
It is. equally obvious, however,
that no one, not even Doc, could
have done it without full and
willing cooperation on the part
of the members. . :,
Radio First Service
The first major service proj
ect undertaken was the radio
network which SOCTFA oper
ates under the name of Roxy Ra
dio, named after Roxy Ann
Butte where its major transmit
ter is located. About 20 compan
ies joined this service at first,
putting up funds for the pur
chase of the transmitter equip
ment and for the mobile units
placed in the . vehicles of the
members. There are now about
80 mobile units in Jackson
County, plus another 50 in the
affiliated Sexton Radio in Jose
phine county, for a total of 130
units, serving 53 different com
panies. -
In practice, the radio network
receives its greatest use for ad
ministrative, purposes ordering
parts, finding out where such-and-such
or so-and-so can be lo
cated, and so on. It has fre
quently been used to call am
bulances for accident cases. Dur
ing fire season, however, its pri
mary and most important func
tion is in getting the news of
fires around and fast.
Fire Control Plan '
As for fire control, SOCTFA
has a hand in that, too. It was
two years ago that the organiza
tion set up within its own mem
bership a cooperative fire agree
ment, which requires signers to
assist in fighting fires, and sets
forth how the costs of the job
shall be apportioned. . :
Equally important are three
caches of . firefighting ' equip
ment located in.Medford, Ash
land and Grants Pass, which are
readily available when needed.
All equipment is standardized
so there will be no confusion or
uncertainty when a crew gets on
a blaze.
A newer service being per
formed by SOCFTA is a clear
ing house for truckers, where
they and loggers can register.
When a - truck is needed,
SOCTFA head quarters , can
check its registry and. get a
truck on the job with a mini
mum of delay, benefiting both
the logger who needs the work
done and the trucker who needs
the job. " ' "
In addition, the organization
is an effective lobbying group,
L. Nutting, manager of Medford corporation
which owns ' the Medco Tree : Farm; Albert
Straus, of the Sams Valley Irrigation Associa
tion Tree Farm, and U. R, Armstrong, president
of the Western Pine association, which pre
sented his organization's tree farm certificates.
The 81,000 acres of tree farms, dedicated
brought the total acreage in Jackson county
up to more than 200,000, on nine tree farms.
Medco's 80,000 acre unit is the largest: The
smallest is about 80 acres. (Brainerd photo.)
and keeps a sharp eye on legis
lation which might affect the
forest industry. In recent months
it also has been working on
freight rates, attempting to in
sure its members that they will
not have any added handicap
from rates which would discrim
inate against this area.
Three fields which SOCTFA
has left strictly alone so far
are labor relations, market sur
veys, and trade promotional
activities.
But in the fields where it
does operate, it has had notable
success in bringing a bunch of
hard-headed, individualistic log
gers into agreement on the basic
tenets of conservation, and into
cooperation in the day-to-day job
of harvesting Jackson county's
forests with an eye to the
future.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Pres Feature Writer
Washington (U.R) What's
new in Washington: ,
Some of the better bars
around town
did something
pretty nice
for the down
trodden this
yule tide.
When a tip
pler said he'd
like "one for
the road," the
waiter sug
gested that in
stead he con-
Harman Nichole tribute the
price of his drink to the needy.
Most drinkers went along with
the idea. Welfare groups picked
Cardinal Spellman
Says Masses for
Troops in Korea
Western Front, Korea (U.P
Francis Cardinal Spellman said
two masses Saturday in Korea.
The cardinal held midnight
mass for more than 2000 soldiers
at the Seventh Division parade
ground near the truce line and
then celebrated mass in Jackson
Theater for 500 men of the
I corps.
Arrived by Helicopter
Cardinal Spellman arrived on
the western front by helicopter
with Col. John A. Dunn of Bal
timore, chief chaplain of the Far
East Army Forces.
: "The American soldiers them
selves have been missionaries to
the Korean people" Cardinal
Spellman told servicemen.
Cardinal Spellman was refer
ring to a church built at Uijong
bu with funds donated by I corps
soldiers. . ;
Soldiers are Missionaries
"Even in time of war the
American Soldier is a mission
ary of peace because the United
States wages war only to save
our . country and " Christianity
from destruction," ; the cardinal
said.
Cardinal. Spellman, military
vicar of all American service
men, cited the great work ac
complished by U. S. military and
naval personnel in helping the
Korean people. -'
Before mass, Cardinal Spell
man visited every patient in the
43rd Mobile Army Surgical hos
pital, passing out . Christmas
gifts he had brought with him
from the United States.
Vancouver Murder
Suspect in Custody
Vancouver," B. C.;---(U.R) Po
lice, said Saturday they were
holding a suspect in the brutal
slaying seven weeks ago of news
paper printer Robert , Hopkins.
Further, evidence was being
awaited before laying a definite
charge against the suspect, police
said. He is now being held in the
city jail. '
The unidentified suspect was
convicted of - another charge a
few days ago and is now being
held under close guard, police
added. v
Hopkins, a printer at the Van
couver Herald, was murdered
Nov. 8 under bizarre circum
stances. He was shot through the
head, strangled with an electric
cord, and a necktie, and his feet
were bound with rope.
The 47-year-old victim lived
alone in a small bungalow.
up the ; kitties every day and
used the money for food, cloth
ing, and toys.
Vice - President Richard M.
Nixon got a folksy little note
from an eighth grade boy in
Oklahoma. "We have been
studying aviation in our school,"
the boy wrote. "We need an air
plane in our schoolyard. I have
read that our country has lots
of planes left from World War
II. We need one pretty bad be
cause there are so many things
we want to learn about planes.
We will invite other schools to
look at our plane. Answer soon.
Loren " The vice-president an
swers his mail.
Sen. Alexandria Wiley, the
other Republican from Wiscon
sin, is asking his constituents
for advice. In his Christmas let
ter to the folks back home, the
senator says: .
"May I have the benefit of
your views on legislation which
you feel I should advance in the
coming session of Congress?"
The senator also Invited "any
criticism you may have of my
newsletter."
The FBI doesn't' go In much
for office parties. The gang, in
stead, puts away the pistols and
gives a lot of parties for the
benefit of poor, kids around the
country, and also for sick FBI
employees.
Guards around the halls of
Congress, stuck around, but
didn't have much to do but
drink coffee and chit-chat with
visitors. And there were not
many visitors. Mostly, all the
out of towners found to do was
to walk through the halls and
gawk.
Oregon Sets Payment
Of Survivor Benefits
Salem (U.R) - The Oregon
state ' industrial accident com
mission i Friday announced it
would pay benefits to the sur
vivors of four men who drowned
last August while working at
Bonneville dam. ,
The commission said H would
make the payments while federal
courts decide whether Oregon or
Washington is liable for the com
pensation claims. The Oregon
commission would be repaid by
the Washington state department
of labor and industries if Wash
ington is judged to have been
responsible for the claims.
The men drowned when the
tug Muleduzer ventured too close
to the Bonneville spillway, was
capsized and sank.. The captain
of the tug was also drowned, but
his death was covered by other
insurance.
DIES OF INJURIES
Ellensburg KU.R) Grace K.
Ellis, - 26, a Newport, "Wash.,
schoolteacher, died of injuries
Thursday night about two hours
after her car skidded on an icy
highway four and one-half miles
west of here and plunged, up
side down, over a 15-foot em
bandment. '' -.-..
DIES OF INJURIES
San Mateo, Calif. (U.R)
James Kelly, 40, San .Mateo,
died shortly after 9 ajn. in San
Mateo Community hospital of
injuries received early Saturday
in a Bayshore Highway accident.
Two other persons were serious
ly injured.
Dead line for Sunday Classified Is
nom Saturday: 10 ejn.-Monday for
Moodajt etberdaye fde mrtousdjy.
Back stairs: El
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
Washington 1 U.R Back
stairs at the White House:
Some of the President's close
advisers are disturbed by expres
sions of opinion that he will not
seek reelection in 1956. This
may account for the current rash
of flat-footed statementsby big
fellows in the GOP that the chief
executive must and will run
again.' . ;
. The storm of. political words
concerning the - President's fu
ture rolls over his head at this
point. In about a year, however,
he will have to face up to ah
important decision. Any forecast
of his decision before early 1956
probably will . represent a per
sonal opinion of the forecaster,
including this one who believes
that the human burdens of life
in the White House may out
weigh the considerations of pres
tige, power and the future of the
Republican' party. -
On the side of logic: The elder
statesmen of the GOP will bring
all kinds of pressure on Mr.
Eisenhower to run again.
On the human side: After more
and Reelection
Bids To Be Called
On Columbia Project
Ephrata (U.R) Bids will be
called next year on two major
projects to bring Columbia Basin
irrigation to the Wahluke Slope
area, Philip' "R. Nalden, Colum
bia Basin project manager, said
Saturday.
Nalder said the work planned
for '1955 eventually will result
in adding 36,111 irrigable acres
to the basin project in the slope
area.
- The land is in Blocks 19, 20,
21 and 48. Both projects were
made possible by the release
last year by the Atomic Energy
Commission of part of the slope
for settlement.
Bids will be called Jan. 10
for further construction in Block
19.' Bids probably will be called
in November for the $7,000,000
Wahluke siphon. and 16,000 feet
of canal.
than 40 years in federal govern
ment service, ; Mr. Eisenhower
may decide that his new farm
house in Gettysburg looks more
inviting than ' another lease on
the White House. ;'
- The arguments between these
two schools of thought will pro
vide interesting reading and list
ening until the day that Mr. Eis
enhower :- announces a decision.
Public Misconception
Probably one of the greatest
misconceptions of the public re
garding life in the White House
is the glamor allegedly involved
in t living and traveling with a
president. "
People outside the presidential
orbit seem to think that moving
in the Eisenhower cavalcade is
akin to high living and a very
big deal. It doesn't work out that
way, however. - '
: Here is what" a Christmas in
Augusta looks, sounds and smells
like to the members of the Eis
enhower staff and press-radio
entourage who move with him:
Christmas Eve is about the
loneliest night of the year. The
Christmas tree at the Bon Air
Hotel where the -staff lives will
be gay enough, . but driving
through the neighborhood out
side the . hotel, will see family
groups gathered around Christ
mas trees that have a warmth
and v familiarity 'impossible to
achieve in a hotel lobby.
Taxi Drivers Stir: - ' ; '
Outside, sleepy taxi drivers
will stir against the sound of
their short wave radios, hoping
for a cushy job somewhere in
the country club section of
Augusta.
The liquor store owner in the
basement of the hotel will stay
open as long as the law allows,
hoping for a late customer.
Secret Service agents will
stride into the hotel cjong about
midnight as they change shifts
around the President's cottage,
shaking off the midwinter cold
and wishing they were back on
more comfortable jobs of chasing
counterfeiters.
A bellhop will say "Merry
Christmas." The elevator opera
tor will say "Good night" .
And, on Christmas Day,' when
most people are contemplating
too much turkey, the people who
travel with a President will say,
"wouldn't it be wonderful to be
home for Christmas."
Unidentified Man Diet .
In Portland Accident
Portland U.R) An unidenti
fied man was killed early Sat
urday when he was struck by
an automobile at SE 174th ave
nue and Powell . boulevard in
Portland.
Police said- the accident oc
curred about 12:30 a.m. The vic
tim, who police say was about
60 years oldwas hooked onto
the hood ornament of the ear
by his jacket.
' Driver of the car was Ttal
Fred Mitchell, 23, of Portland.
He told police he dimmed his
car lights for an oncoming ear
and saw the victim, standing in
front of his car when he switch
ed the hshts on. brieht aeain.
He said he didn't have time to
avoid hitting the man.
. i
Prior to 1913, robins were
classed as game birds in some
southern states. ' -.
TYPEWRITERS &
ADDING MACHINES
Repaired
MEDFORD OFFICE
EQUIPMENT COMPANY
41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100
Liner Sets Sail With
Cargo Dragging Behind
New York (U.R) The liner
Independence set sail from
Gibraltar Friday with pari of
Us carbo trailing behind in the
ship's wake.
The watersoaked "cargo"
consists of a number of watch-:
es being tested for shock re
sistance and waterproof quali
ties. They ' will be checked ;
daily during the voyage to
New York.
WEATHER By United Press
Northern California: Decreas
ing fog in the central valley
and fair elsewhere Sunday. Ris
ing daytime temperatures . in
Sacramento valley; northwest
winds 12-24 mph near coast. . ,
Tans
Plan NOW to
Enjoy Your
SWEAR'
DIHHER
"The Pick-Up That Never
Lets You Down"
-AT NO EXTRA COST!
Hotel Medford
Lulu's Cafe
. El Rogue Cafe
Red Streak Cafe
Rogue Valley Country Club
Busy Bee Cafe
Holiday Inn Coffee Shop
Steak House Cafe
Maury's Corner
Eaton's Dinner House
Trailways Cafe
at Your
Favorite Restaurant
Aii the goodness of a home-cooked meal
with no fuss, no dishes to do Excellent
service; all the "extras" you love. Re
serve your table today and be SURE to
drink plenty of MILK - it costs no
more.
Whistle Stop Cafe
Big Y Super Markr
Kim's Restaurant
Top Notch Cafe
Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop
Al White's Rogue Restaurant
Groceteria
Hotel Jackson
Brown's Cafe
Wimer Cafe K
Other restaurant er cafes wishing to cooperate and ee Included en ear future ad Call Med
ford 2-8212. Ad paid by Milk Producers League and Jackson County Pomona Grange.
Examples are
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Walks like his dad. ..' He Hii dad. ForPop's the hero J. . . forty extra winks. You can't bhtmt
" Acts like his dad and the way he does things, the way him, years from .now, if he hasn't faith
he acts, is "the right way." a b God ... in life . i . in himself. . .if
' -f --Think of that next time you're tired you haven't shown him whore to look
swha it's time to go to church or for it.
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