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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1955
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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.
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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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