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o o t " o o 0 ' . 0 . Oregon fmmH f Heeds?, Jaauary 4, 1151 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE q aajem uj.pj Oregon experi enced a near record low in tor es fires and forest fire losses in 1354 for the second consecutive o year, the State Forestry Depart ment said yesterday in a year end report. During the year the large scale forest rehabilitation pro gram was continued in Oregon; .insect infestations $vere further "controlled and" studied; and there 'was progress in forest re search. )! The records indicated a tStal of-, 593 fires burned over 2297 o acres of forest land during -the 0 season, compared with 873 fires and 1713 acres burned the pre vious year. This two-year combi nation established an all-time low fire record for the state for estry department. The end of the 1954 planting 0 season last spring saw a total of 3,310,000 forest tree seedlings planted on state lands. This brings the total to 15,000,000 3 trees since the project was start- Wear-Record Losses for ed in 1X9. During the fire-yr period S3C,O00 nj were felled as part of the protection plant. The 185 fall planting: started with some ,00O,0D0 tree to ,b placed in the ground during tht winder season. The spruoe budvorm and bark beetles are still found in epi demic statu in certain parte of Oregen vfeil in othtrs the in Seetitation ha disappeared or declined. State and federal plsnei flev ISO houri and cov ered 1 J,000 air milea over 2i, 000(000 acre t Oregon's for est, mapping infestation areas. Further ground checks were made to determine intensity of budvorm infeatation vu found on 1,000,000 acres while the bark beetles still persisted on , 000,000 acres, the latter all in western Oregon. The beetle in festation had declined in all of western Oregon except on the. Smith river in the C&ast range and the watersheds of the Clackamas and middle fork ol the -Willamette river. No rein- Second Straight Year f citation" f the budwcm was located in western Oregon or the Cascade range, flfiuce jPttdnreim Hit Studies in utilization were car ried out in Folk couaty to de termine the economic posiibili ty el logging and milling the thinnings from a yeung atand of Dougla fir. Work continued in a Cocc Stairs: Traveling Staff 'Bushed' By MEHIMAF SMITH United Ireu White House Writ Washington (U.8) Back stairs at the Whit Houee: The White House traveling staff came back from Augusta thoroughly pooped -and tough month ahead. The Eisenhower staff could not recall a period of more un interrupted work than . th so called holidays in Georgia. ' The President, himself put in much longer working' hours than usual when he is resi dent at the Augujta National Golf Club. What cauted th work and the fetifue was having the Trench L Assembly crisis added to the normally heavy program of pre paring the presidential messages 2,o th tiew Congress. Th forthcoming Central American trip of Vice-President Riebard M. Nixon will make him one of the most-travelled vice-presidents in American his tory Mr. Eisenhower, himself, would like to visit many foreign countries, but he does not have the time. Nixon travels as the President's emissary and in so doing, increases his statute a a world leader. All of which would add ' to Nixon's political appeal in 1958. John Eisenhower, the Presi; dent's son now stationed at Ft." Leavenworth, Kan., as an Army major, first went to school in France. John was then six years e-ld and his father was in Paris with th U. S. Battle Monu ments Commission. Mr. Eisenhower could not agree .more with Archy, the famous cockroach of the late Don Marquis. Arch once said: "There is bound to be a cer taia amount of trouble running any country "If you are president the trou ble happens to you But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so "That most of the trouble happens to other people." study of the habits of small tree seed eating rodents to determine, more adequate control methods. Studies were continued to see if methods of pine reforestation in eastern Oregon 'could, be suc cessfully carried out. To date, drought, frost .and rodents seem to prevent this. .-: ' During the year the state sprayed 67,000 acres of eastern Oregon 'forests infested by the spruce budworm. It resulted in an insect mortality cf 99 per cent. Plans have already been initiated to continue the work on 600,000 acres of epidemic infes tation shown by aerial surveys. An inventory was completed of 142,000 acres of forest lands in Clatsop county and a sus tained yield production plan pre pared which will produce 40, 000,000 board feet of timber a year beginning in 1955 and will increase o 100,000,000 board feet at the end of the first rota tion. . . Real Estate Case Continued by Court The case set for hearins last Friday in district court involving a charge ofengaging in business as a. real estate broker without a license ' has been continued until Jan. 14, according to court records. Pederson To Remain In Service 9 Months Capt. Don Pederson, U.S. Ma rine Air corps, partner of O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney vis ited here over the holidays. Pederson had originally ex pected to be released from the service about Jan. 1 and resume his 'practice here, but will re main in the service for. another nine.' months. He is stationed at Santa Ana, Calif,, where he 'is engaged in both flight work and . prosecu tion'or defense for court martial tribunals. 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