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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 $10,000,000,000
federal loan.
Yttifts Ind Marathon
Sttdtag of Bible
H.pmiston U.R) A group of
teenagers who started with ttie
first book of Genesis at I p.m.
lett Wednesday, Saturday night
fiftithe their 73-Rour marathon
reading of the Holy Bible.
Nineteen members of the Bap
tist Youth Fellowship of the
First Baptist church in Hermis
ton etarted reading and the
group jrev to 40 befort the
reading eas completed at 4:10
p.m. Saturday.
The youngsters read in 15
minute ehifts and took turns
catnapping during the marathon.
The group claimed it was the
first ,time the modernized1 vi
sion of the Bible had been read
aloud.
AUTOI1 DROWM9
Goldendale, Wash. U.R) Ol
liver -Evans, 4i, Yakima, Wash.,
drowned in a foot and a half of
water Saturday after his car
plunged over an embankment
into Swalke creek about 3V4
mile south of here.
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Tokyo (U.R) Dr. Weyse
Truax, a member of the Atomic
Bomb Casualty Commistios el
HiroAiima, said today "thee
have been no really si$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.. They
said it was too early to speculate
on the namesjof the new cardin
als the Pope might appoint.
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Chistienees, SI, Jendleton, died
vhile hunting list Iriday, ap
5?enile of t heart attack, the
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ron's office reported. ChrU
tiansen was hunting with sev
eral companions-near Troy. t-
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