Forest Service Looks
Proudly on 50 Years
Of Conservation Work
Washington (UJ9 The For
est Service, created 50 years ago
today, lodks back proudly at a
conservation campaign that has
changed , the face of the nation
and assured it of all the wood
it needs, V ::!-'r::-
More than that, present wood
production could be doubled If
necessary, ; a forest expert esti
mated. . ' . -,:.T ; -- . .; . ;
When President Theodore
To Assist
Tideland Oil Drillers
- Longview, Tex. U.R) . A
$2,000,000 . sea - going r platform
for tidelands oil' prospecting,
more than half the size of a foot
ball field, is being built .for a
lvno livm " "... -
' R. G. : LeTourneau, Inc., of
. Longview, which is building the
platform, for the Zapata Petro
leum Co. of Midland, Tex., says
the platform will be ' equipped
with three ; electrically driven
stilts as high as a 12-story build
ing. ' : ' ; ' :
The platform will be assem-
: bled at the company's Vtcks
; burg, Miss., plant on the Missis
sippi river. It will be launched
in thA siimmp-r ctt and then
. . . . a. 1 ' 1 . .
wiu De uoaiea aown .xne nver
; to the Gulf of Mexico and towed
' to its first drilling site. "' -r
In the gulf, the 8,000,000-pound
drilling barge will work like a
huge elevator. The stilts will be
lowered electrically to the ocean
bottom, ' and' the platform" will
raise itself on them to the de
sired height.
i , m '
' wnen me weu iids ueeii cuui-
pleted, the platform will lower
itself . to the water again, raise
the stilts from the ocean floor
and be towed to a new drilling
site. - -j..r.:rm-
Cellophane Tiape Used
In Skin Lacerations I ;
: Chicago U.R Cellophane
tape is now being used to close
wounds and is proving superior
to stitches in many cases, ac
cording to science uigesi.
Dr. Paul Williamson, Walsh
Colo., reported in an article that
he used thertape in closing 91
skin lacerations, and that 7 re
sults uave oeen cntouiaguig. .
: He said there is a relative ab-
; fence of cain comoared with.
stitching, and the final appear
ance of thewound bas"been"betr
ter. Healing also is speeded up,
he said.
i Williamson said stitches "may
soon become a cruel and archaic
- way to close minor lacerations."
I He added that studies already
are under way on the use of cel-
; lophane tape . in closing , major
surgical wounds. " " " '' .
Dead line Sunday Classified - if at
eon -Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
Roosevelt signed a bill an Feb.
1, 1 9 0 5, creating the service,
lumberman .were chopping
through , the nation's dwindling
forest and leaving wastelands
behind as their sawmills moved
on. , ,
Important Agency
Today; conservation - minded
forest, industries manage their
lands for continous production
and encourage farmers to
handle .trees on small Woodlots
like other crops. .. 1 -
The Forest Service has grown
from a handful of crusading
conservationists to a great land
management, research and edu
cational agency within the De
partment of Agriculture. It has
more than 6,700 permanent em
ployes and about 12,7000 work
ing at height of the forest .fire
seasons.' r .' ' .;
Half a century ago, the-few
areas set aside as national for
ests were in remote "back coun
try" with few . roads or other
facilities for fire protection and
timber harvesting. T h e Forest
service today operates 115 na
national, forests covering
ii,ioi,uuu acres in 39 states,
Alaska and Puerto Rico. These
forests cover 16 per cent of the
nation's commercial forest land.
Lumber and Grazing
Under scientific management,
the national forests now sumriv
more than five billion board feet
of timber annually and the har
vest is growing. The forests also
furnish seasonal grazing for mil
lions ot : cattle and sheep and
supply recreation for million of
city-bound! citizens.
The shift to scientific cutting
meinoas ana replanting of cut-
over lands has not been the only
idcwr in reDuuaing xorest re
sources, Leonard Barrett, a For
est- service official,- said. The
growth of fire protection sys
terns under private, state and
federal sponsorship has been im
portant in preserving woodland
tnat might otherwise have been
destroyed. :-. :; --. ...
In Ceramics Industry
Buffalo, N.Y. .R) Zircon
is best known as a beautiful
semi-precious stone, but in an
other form it is a real gem to
the' ceramic ! industry. It : is now
used as the' surface material in
sandwich batts, on which porce-
lainware is fired in kilns. ,
Engineers , of Electro Refrac
tories & Abrasive Corp. who de-'
veloped the batt, say zircon will
not react under high tempera
tures and stain the porcelain. As
a refractory, zircon is more ex
pensive -than many other mate
rials. But its chemical inertness
here is worth the price. Pure
zircon ;- bodies ; lac k';- strength
when hot v The silicon carbide
"meat" of the sandwich pro
vides 'the mechanical strength
required. J ;.. ,. .... ........ '
TAKING DIVE DURING Initial sea cruise, atomic submarine
USS Nautilus (from top) begins to go down, is submerged except
piece of turret and deck, and finally Is fully submerged, leaving
tell-tale wake. Diving trials held off New England. (International)
Tuesday, January 25.. 1953,
MEDFORD IOREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Back Stairs: New Appointment Secretary
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White Houm Writer
Washington (U.R) Back
stairs at the White House:
President Eisenhower. ..within
the next few months, will have
to select a new appointment secretary.
v Thomas E. Stephens is leaving
the White House, but he has set
no date for his departure.
Stephens, a highly regarded
member" of " the Eisenhower
team, has no plans for taking an
other political job, a possibility
widely reported last week. He
does not plan to join the Repub
lican National :: Committee. In
stead, he wil return to private
life and legal practice. "
Tom in recent weeks has been
in something less than booming
good health and ': while; he has
made no decision: on .when he
leaves and where he goes, he
is -determined to get away from
his ulcerous job , . .
.: Most of the information about
his departureJErom his job comes
from people outsidd the White
House, n Asked personally about
tnese reports, Stephens says,
"there is nothing to report"-
"In the days of far-sailing whal
ing snips ana seal nunters irom
New England's old -ports, a cer
tain bleak Patagonian, beach be
came widely, known ,as ."New
Haven Green." There New -Ha
ven, Connecticut sealers ; dried
skins before taking them west
to China in lucrative trade.
Who "succeeds Stephens? The
White. House isn't talking, but
there is this known fact when
Stephens must take time off, his
replacement is Murray Snyder,
the former New " York Herald
Tribune reporter who is assist
ant to Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty.
Odds and ends in the wake of
Mr. Eisenhower's first photo
graphed news conference: v
The White' House is amazed,
even shocked, by criticism be
cause it 'released only 24 min
utes of film and sound tape out
or a dz-minute news conference.
This was more than 'normal. The
White House frequently .has. re
leased brief portions of sound
tape after a , news conference,
but last Wednesday marked the
first time in history that a presi
dential press conference ever
has been put before the public
in pictures.
To the grumblings that the
conference ..was "censored,"
White House officials point out
that reporters were permitted,
as u s u a 1, to transmit to the
world an indirect acoount of
everything the President said.
They also noted that the White
House permited direct quotation
of most of what - the President
said far more than usual. Thus,
they say, if all of the conference
was not relased on film", to the
newsreels and television net
works,. it hardly could be de
scribed as. censorship. ,.
; What Hagerty did was elimi
nate filmed versions of relative-,
ly minor questions and answers
last Wednesday, --.. -
-i Before the first filmed ' con
ferenoe was staged, Hagerty and ,
some of the network and news-
reel representatives held a "dry;
run" ar rehearsal. The reporters
asked questions to. get lights and :
sound adjusted. The m a k e-be-
lieve president in ; this session
last Monday started out as Hag
erty, but the cameras finally ;
switched to Hugo Johnson of .
Paramount News because in i
size, . coloring . and girth he re-'
sembles the President more than ;
does Hagerty. t -. - - -
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A Nichol's Worth of . .;.
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United PrM Fastar Writer
Washington U.R) What's
new in Washington: .
Vice-President Eichard M.
Nixon, who seldom : wears a
hat, is thinking
about chang
ing his head
gear habits. If
for no other
f reason, to stop
the; flood of
mail he has
been getting
on the subject.
The latest let
ter, from his
home.' state of
Herman Nichols C a 1 i f o r n i a
said: -"This is from one who
wishes you well. It might make
you mad and say it is nobody's
business. But get a , nice hat. It
will add to , the .charm you
need." ; i . ' ; "- ;
Experts in the business .. of
honor-saving claim that when
President Anastasio Somoza of
Nicaragua challenged President
Jose Figueres of Costa Rica to a
duel, he violated two basic rules
of the code duello. - First, he
challenged Figueres direct, in
stead of through seconds. Also
he specified revolvers, - instead
of letting the challenged : man
choose the weapons. . ..
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mBDMPIHUID. MIMIL , TOIIIHJtlME
The Costa Rican Embassy has
received a lot of mail from
Americans, men offering to vol
unteer for service against invad
ers of Costa Rica.. All told the
Embassy they were willing ; to
serve for bread and bed, without
pay.. The Embassy replied - that
it would not recruit U.S. citizens
and ; what Costa Rica needs is
guns, not men. One fellow from
Oregon wrote that he was a vet
eran combat pilot and added "I
am offering my services to Costa
Rica, first", y " ;:vv- .
r
Ambassador Jose A. Mora of
Uruguay, . chairman of the Or
ganization' of American ' States,
was called but of a barber chair
by Ambassador Antonio A. Fa
cio of Costa Rica. . Facio wanted
an emergency ; meeting of the
organization on air raids and
night bombing : against ... open.
Costa Rican towns. - With the
barber sheet still' wrapped about
his middle and the face lather;
fast drying Mora got on, the;
phone, and made the necessary:
arrangements: ... ; And then he
climbed back into the- barber
chair for a relather and the oth
er half of his interrupted shave.
The- other . afternoon, ' some
orange juice folks .introduced
some new . crystals at a press
party. 'The press was to - take
samples of the crystals and sim
ply add water and ice. Happened
there was another?." bar. in the
same : suite, : with a man in a
white apron ladling but some
thing a little stronger, and do
ing' a pretty good business, too.
About that time Secretary . of
Agriculture . '-. Ezra T. Benson
showed up. One reported had
just set his empty glass down at
the liquor bar. Hasn't this man
had a drink yet?" asked Benson.
Next thing the scribe knew, he
had been pushed to the other bar
and was holding, a glass full of
orange juice.
: Goldie Ahearn, a local fight
promoter, mentioned to the man
from whom hex buys, his boxing
gloves that he was about to be
come a grandfather, perhaps the
granddaddy of a new champion.
The gloves man, with an eye on
new business, gave Goldie a lit
tle present in advance of the
big event. A set of miniature
boxing gloves . and a tiny -: pair
of fighting trunks. At last Gol
die is a- grandfather of a kid
they named Nancy. . o
74-HouPWarSeen
In Russian Plans
Portland : (U.PJ A reta-ed
Air Force general said last night
he does not Relieve the Chinese
Communists; , will invade For
mosa liinless Russia is prepared
to wage an all-out nuclear war
against America.
Gen.-George C. Kennedy, re
tired commander of the Strate
gic Air Command, said he be
lieves Russia ? plans a ?. surprise
"24-hour" war against the -Uni
ted States. "After the first raid
there will be. 20.000,000 dead
hand another 20,000,000 doomed
to die from radiation," he said.
Gen. Kenney said that present
defense of this country are not
enough to stop such a blow.:
He plans a four-day stay In
Oregon in behalf of the Arthritis
and ' Rheumatism .' foundation
fund. :r::'-&tfWM
One - of America's largest
breeding colonies of white peli
cans." bis! and lovely birds of
eight- to ten-foot wingspread,
flourish curiously:; enough V in
Pyramid" Lake, Nevada, in the
midst of seared desert and bitter
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The Annual Inventory showed up a number of items that
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