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e Senate Committee Starts Hearings oft Plan For Federal Disaster Insurance Program Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Banking Committee sum moned administration witnesses to testify iSsSy on proposals for federal insurance against dis asters like this year's New Eng land floods. The administration was ex pected to make pubc its own proposed insurance program. Also under, committee scrut iny are various congressional plans for disaster insurance. The latest, disclosed Sunday by Act ing Chairman Herbert H. Leh man (D-N.Y.), would furnish coverage against risks of floods, drought, smog and atom bombs. It would be a $12,000,000,000 program. First witnesses summoned were Federal Housing Commis-' sioner Norman P. Mafon .na other housing officials. Army Engineers Chief Other witnesses includes Maj Gen. Samuel D, Sturi Jr., Chief of Army Engineers, and spokesmen for the Civil Defense Administration, the Departmentt of Commerce, Agriculture, end Interior and the Small Business Administration The Commerce Department has reported that Hurricane pDiane, which struck the North east Aug. 17-19, caused 179 deaths and $457,674,044 in prop erty damage.- Most of the prop erty damage must be considered a total loss because private com panies will not insure individ uals against hurricane and fjpod. The committee will move to WROIG WAY HOME Chicago (U.R) Chicago's po lice will escort five-year-old Jo seph Pirog to his home the next time they find him wandering around the Loop. Joseph talked Dolice into lettfhff him en home ? alone after they found him Sun- day..He went to a movie instead. wofweIYoWs, '.dElSKYENS E.r5fisr The Mxing Season . . Back of all these mighty fall forestry meetings looms Edward T. Allen, of evergreen memory . who founded the Western For estry and Conservation associa tion 46 years ago and was a part ner in founding all the others, William B. Greeley, then in the U.S. Forest Service, was a prime mover, too. In 1909 timber was still large ly looked on and worked as a mine. But today the Allen-Gree- ' ley idea is accepted in all re gions of America - where mucn of the productive land is more suited to trees than to any other soil crop. For timber growing is a good investment in everybody's view now. It was in 1919 that Colonel Greeley, fresh home from his forestry regiment command in France, really started the talk about industry changing over from "timber mining to timber growing." Trie seedling ideas of Allen and Greeley are the thriv ing "tree farms" program that blankets America in this year of 1955. . But even they hardly dared to dream in the early days- that the emain theme of a Washington State Forestry conference might be "Alder: An Important Asset." But' so it's slated for the Friday, Nov. 4 all-day meeting at Seat tle, in the Chamber of Com merce auditorium. While the over-all theme of Western For estry conference at Portland, Dec. 7-8-9, is "Forestry Prog ress in the West." Looking Backward . " Northwest history and folk lore present the pioneer's view of the forest and. its uses as one vastly different fron that of our me. In the 1880s a song called "The Old Settler" was written by some anonymous bard and is yet heard over the radio in pro grams that re made up mainly of hilbilly bawAaby .ballads. In this true oldtimer a pioneer tells of his travels which led him at last to "a country they called - Puget Sound." The verses con tinue: "Arriving flOt broke in mid winter I found it enveloped in fog, AndGeovered all over with .' timber Thick as hair on the back of dog. I took tip claim -in the forest Vlant note BUY THE NEW Quick foaoiert Gr AUTOMATIC ; ELECTRIC Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN nor.iE APPLIANCE 115 EAST, MAIN ' Authorized Dealer GENERAL QUECTRie Water Heaters 3 iAnd set myself down to hard toil. For two years I choppe'd'and I labored But I never got down to the soil." The last two lines tell a story that was a common and grim one for many thousands who tried and failed to make farm land of nature's own forest land in the douglar fir region. Until a comparatively few years ago our natural dense growth of douglas fir and companion trees &s seen by the majority as more of an obstacle to progress on the land than as a resource to be perpetuated through man agement for crop-harvest-seed- ine - protection rotation. First hemldlk found use in. mill and market. Now it's alder's turn. Wide Use Theodore Roosevelt gave tree farming its ruling principle when he was president, -in the statement, "The fundamental idea of forestry is perpetuation of forest by wise use." He made it mighty clear that the timber mining philosophy was most un wise, its effects destructive. The policies that he laid down for his Agriculture Secretary Jim Wil son and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot to follow in national forest management may be pin pointed in other terms as Short and .potent as "wise use." , "Stop fire." "Grow trees." New products." 'Ileasonable taxes." ' - " - - These and other terms like them represent the nation-wide guide lines of the privately owned, taxpaying tree farm en terprises of this day and age. Theodore Roosevelt would hail the tree farm movement as a march in the way of forest prog ress that he opened in 1901, there's no doule) about it. The only two things we have to fear in our forest future are fire and taxes. With these bur dens kept down, tree farming will go ahead here without a halt. Week's' Sewing Buy nm ft 30-42 ' . SNAPPY-WRAP! Sew.it 1-2-3 quick no waist, seams! Slip it on just wrap 'round, tie waist' Pop it on . first tiling in the morning, wear it at home or shopping. Make several in win ter cottons, wash-and-wear ray ons! Sleeveless and , 3A sleeve rayon, too! '. Pattern 9019; Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 30, 32; 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. Size 16 takes 4 yards 35-inch. This easy-to-use pattern -gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you evey step. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for Jtev York City Thursday to hear Gov. Averell Harriman and pri vate insurance spokesmen. It will hear state officials Friday in Goshen, N. Y., and conduct Searings later in Boston, Provi dence end Haitford. Lehman's sweeping proposal eould centef all disaster relief each pattern for first-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th Sta., New York, 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. in the .Civil Drtenee AmifttFe- tion, which woul be Mtitlea the "fader. Sitttte Aflmiaietre- tion." ?o Kiaea of Coverage Under Lehman't plan, the ad ministrator would set up tvo kinds of insurance: against nat ural disasters such as flood, drought, smog or volcanic erup tion; and against property dam age, personal injury, sickness or death caused by war. This would cover atomic o or biological at tack as well " as conventional war. The" $2,000,000,000 natural disaster program, financed by a Treasury loan of half that sum, would limit oproperty damage claims to $300,000 per person. The program also could be sold asoa package' to a state or local government. The war risk insurance would be based on a $10,000,000,000 federal loan. Yttifts Ind Marathon Sttdtag of Bible H.pmiston U.R) A group of teenagers who started with ttie first book of Genesis at I p.m. lett Wednesday, Saturday night fiftithe their 73-Rour marathon reading of the Holy Bible. Nineteen members of the Bap tist Youth Fellowship of the First Baptist church in Hermis ton etarted reading and the group jrev to 40 befort the reading eas completed at 4:10 p.m. Saturday. The youngsters read in 15 minute ehifts and took turns catnapping during the marathon. The group claimed it was the first ,time the modernized1 vi sion of the Bible had been read aloud. AUTOI1 DROWM9 Goldendale, Wash. U.R) Ol liver -Evans, 4i, Yakima, Wash., drowned in a foot and a half of water Saturday after his car plunged over an embankment into Swalke creek about 3V4 mile south of here. Us Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line tor Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. Atom-txposmd JapQ Tokyo (U.R) Dr. Weyse Truax, a member of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commistios el HiroAiima, said today "thee have been no really si$niice changes in blood composition etf he Japanese exposed to adi tion of atonic bombs drojpei c Nagasaki and Hiroshima." He said studies of 20,000 per sons in Hiroshima and Naga saki have disclosed only a smell incidence of leukemia amonf persons exposed to radiation in the Nagasaki and Hiroshimf atom bomb blasts. Pope Piua Considers Sacred College Vacancies oVatican City (O.R) Author itative Vatican sources said to day Pope Pius XII mightocall a consistory early next year to fill eight vacancies in the Sacred College of Cardinals. The sources said most Vatican quarters expect the consistory to take place in January or February if one is held.. 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