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Medford urn tea f r Lteasea Wire Tribune United f res ulJ leased wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1955 Six Pages 1 yjj ' SNUGGLING CLOSE UNDER "mother" bomber, "parasite" jet fighter is retrieved in flight and brought into bomb bay. Combination enables Air Force to conduct long range high speed reconnaissance missions with bombers carrying protective fighters. (International) Plan To Sell Olympic Timberland Blocked by Congress Committees By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) An In terior Department proposal to sell some Olympic National Park timberland to a group of Pacific Northwest logging operators has been blocked by two congres sional committees. Congress learned of the pro posed pact several weeks be fore it was set to be signed by the administration and the log ging concerns last month, and by registering an objection pre vented the deal from going through. The timberland involved in the proposed transaction amount ed to 3861 acres which the Na tional Park Service said has an appraised value of about $232,- 000. It lies just outside the west ern boundaries of Olympic Na tional Park near the Pacific Ocean and was acquired during the 1940s for eventual inclusion in the park but was never taken in. All told, the governmant has 6609 acres of such acquired lands that today lie outside the park's boundaries. Because the park is almost as large as Con gress authorized it to be, the Interior Department sees little or no prospect of including these lands by presidential order particularly in view of agitation by Northwest loggers to have the size of the park reduced so they can cut some of its timber. Against this background, the Interior Department came up with a complicated transaction under which the park service would dispose of the Olympic timberland and acquire in the deal 400 acres of private hold ings within Lassen Volcanic Na tional Park, Calif. The loggers would buy the . California land for $269,350 from its owners and turn it over to the park service in exchange for the Olympic property, which they have agreed to regard as having a value of $272,020. They would pay the $2670 difference to the U.S. Treasury. The bulk of the Olympic prop erty would go to Rayonier, Inc. The firm would pay $105,659 for 2503.63 acres, or about $42 per acre. National Plywood Corp. of Beaver, Wash., would acquire 638.27 acres for $61,400 and Peniasula Plywood Corp. of Port Angeles would get 559.11 acres for $69,494. The remain ing 160 acres would go to three small operators in the area. Revised Plans for Air Force Academy Receive Approval Washington (U.R) Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee has generally ap proved the revised design for the Air Force Academy. It places less emphasis on glass and de letes the controversial accordion-like chapel of the original plans. The senators seemed ready to go along with Air Force Secre tary Harold E. Talbott's urgent plea for $79,000,000 so construc tion can begin on the new acad emy at Colorado Springs, Colo. Pictures Withheld But the Air Force refused to make public pictures of the new design. The reason: The House Appropriations Committee, which has complained the loud est about the original plans, has not yet seen the hew ones. Talbott was taking no chances of offending the House commit tee by distributing the pictures without first showing them to his critics. The cozy handling of the new pictures was in sharp contrast with the much head line unveiling of the original plans last spring. Only Studies Talbot said yesterdad that those first plans were "only studies" and added, "I guess we should never have put them out." It was the House committee which refused $"79,000,000 for the academy as a result of the controversy over the original de sign. The new design shown to the Senate committee yesterday is still severely modern, but there is more emphasis on stone to re place the previous glass expan ses. And the senators were ob viously relieved to find the Air Force had dropped the modern istic chapel that has been com pared with both an upside down accordion and a tepee. Congress first heard of the deal when the Interior Depart ment on May 25 wrote to the House and Senate committees on government operations, saying that unless some objections were raised it planned to sign the contract on June 29 under the authority of a federal statute which was due to expire June 30 at midnight. The Senate committee on May 31 wrote Washington Sens. Henry M. Jackson and Warren G. Magnuson a routine letter about the matter, asking what they thought of the idea. Look ing into it, the senators discov ered that the value of the tim berland was based on a timber cruise conducted in 1940. "Evidently no attempt has been made to reestimate the amount of timber now on this property as compared with the estimate made 15 years ago, they declared. "There is no in dication the new appraisals place a value on timber which may have matured since ' the 1940 cruise. In addition, most of the land in question is cov ered with young growth, as yet unmerchantable, but 15 to 25 years old, which will be of great value within the next 20 years. This growth is apparently given no value in the latest appraisal." The senators proposed that the Forest Service make a new cruise to see if Interior had set a fair market value on its tim berland. They also questioned whether the department had au thority for such a transaction. Both House and Senate commit tees promptly objected to the deal, and it has not gone through. . , - Meanwhile, the House com mittee has sent an investigator into the same area to look into timber sales made by the depart ment through the Bureau of In dian Affairs to Rayonier. This followed the disclosure by Sen: Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) that sales to Rayonier of hem lock had been going for about $6 to $13 under long-term In terior contracts, when the com pany was buying in the same area hemlock under bid for $25 to $3. At least six hours are required for the penicillin drug to achieve, maximum affect. L J y si Si ts )x TO ABE 0VB3-STOCKED! .m njsffiDD REFRIGERATORS! RANGES! T HO REASONABLE UASieS! PRICE! OFFER REFUSED All Nationally Advertised Makes Included In Our Used Appliance Department LeoEnard EIotirie Go. 309 e. um SMUGGLERS ARRESTED Willemstad, Curacao, N.W.I. U.R) Police arrested a 36-year-old Paraguayan Monday describ ed as a "one-man smuggling ring." They identified him as M. Calevach and said he arrived from Europe loaded with cam eras and watches. His car was especially equipped with secret compartments for smuggling, police said.- Springfield Logger's Body Found in River Eugene U.R) The body of Ira Simmons, 52jrear-old Spring field, Ore., logger, was recovered from the Willamette river yes terday, 100 yards downstream from the point where he fell into the stream at Judkins Point. Simmons apparently slipped into the river from the diversion dam of the Eugene millrace. An other Springfield man, James R. Mattson, jumped into the river in a vain rescue attempt. He found only the fisherman's hat. The body was found by Lane County Sheriff Ed Elder, Deputy Sheriff Clare Williams, and State Police Officers Harold Stromquist and Robert Steele using grappling hooks. Judge East Presides In First Federal Cases Portland U.R) Federal Judge William East of Eugene presided over his first cases from the federal bench here yesterday. Judge East, newly appointed to fill a vacancy left when Judge James Alger Fee was assigned to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, took a plea in a crim inal action and issued a decree in an admiralty libel suit. The judge ordered a pre-sen-! tence investigation for Donald! L. Faudskar, 26, Silverton, who i pleaded guilty to forging a sig-j nature on a $117 government i check. He allowed petitioner Harold I. Jones $21,874 in a foreclosure action brought against an As toria fishing vessel, the Dreamer. Portland Tovfern Owners Portland (U.R) Fines of 0 Imposed on three tavern owners found guilty of making pay-offs to players of pinball machines have been upheld here by pre siding Circuit Judge James Crawford. Fined for Game Payoffs Judge Crawford said the city's complaints showed that the oper ators had violated the municipal anti - gambling ordinance. The case was .then referred back to Municipal Court for collection of the fines. 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