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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, NoTmber 22, 1955 Too Many Sawmills in Northwest, Sprague Tells Timber Group Portland (U.R) gon governor Charles A. Sprague told a joint Congres sional group yesterday that there are too many mills operating in the Pacific Northwest in relation to the amount of timber. Sprague said: "No amount of timber inventory stretchout will provide timber to keep all the existing mills operating on a per manent basis, and neither the federal bureaus nor Congress can increase the stand of trees ripe for cutting." Cautions Against Stampeding Sprague, now publisher of the Salem Statesman, addressed a joint Congressional interior sub committee conducting a series of federal timber policy hearings in the Northwest. The former governor, who is chairman of the O&C advisory board, cautioned against being "stampeded into speeding up the cut of federal timber" because of pressure from locally dis tressed areas. "In fact," Sprague said, "the lack of access roads now may prove our salvation a decade or two hence . . . lest we run into an interval of great timber de ficiency before the reforested acres are ready for cutting." Sprague's views came in op position to those expressed by Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), first witness yesterday. Sen Morse distributed copies of a bill he proposes to introduce into the Former Ore- next Congress to provide more funds for building access roads. Would Provide Fundi The bill would provide S50,- 000,000 each year through 1960 to national forests; 25 per cent of O&C receipts to the Bureau of Land Management, and S5, 000,000 annually through 1960 for public domain lands under the BLM. Congressmen attending the hearing included Sens. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.); Henry Dworshak (R-Ida.); W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C); and Reps Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.); Clare E. Hoff man (R-Mich.), and Harris Ells worth (R-Ore.), who was an ob server. The group has held hearings at Klamath Falls, Medford, Roseburg and Eugene in Oregon, and at Redding in northern California. Atomic Healing System Passes Test Richland, Wash. (U.R) An atomic energy heating system at the Hanford atomic works has passed its first real test mark ing an important milestone in development of peaceful atomic energy uses, Hanford scientists said today. The scientists said last week's prolonged' near zero weather gave the atomic heating system its first real challenge, but the system kept buildings where it is used- at a comfortable " level of warmth. They also estimated the sys tem would save $59,000 a year in fuel costs at the sprawling plu tonium plant. Initial investment In the system was about $614, 000, some $444,000 more than a conventional heating plant would have cost. But scientists said savings in fuel costs would pay for the added expense in 7Vfe years. Water Conservation Declared To Be National Problem Portland (U.R) Maj. Gen. Charles G. Holle, deputy chief of Army engineers, says that wa ter conservation is no longer just a western problem. "It has become a national problem." Gen. Holle, addressing the 22nd annual Inland Empire Wa terways association meeting yes terday, said supplemental irri gation in, the east has increased 400 per cent since 1950. He said industries were mov ing to the river banks "not only to obtain low cost transportation but in search of adequate sup plies of water for manufacturing processes." Floods Costly , Gen. Holle said Columbia riv er floods now are costing $25,- 000,000 a year and with increas ing property values they would amount to $35,000,000 by 1975. "It is a disturbing fact," he said, "that little of significance has been done to increase flood protection in this valley since the 1948 disaster." Brig. Gen. Louis H. Foote, North Pacific division engineer, said revision of the "308" re port on comprehensive develop ment of the Columbia basin would take at least two years. Robert D. Mayer, president of the Pacific American Steamship Association, spoke in opposition to user charges on inland water ways as recommended by the Hoover commission. m II w HP m m w - CEMENTING RELATIONSHIP Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (right) and Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev (second from left) are greeted on arrival rn New Delhi India by PrimTMirdster Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and his daughter, Indira Ghandi. The Russians are in India on a state visit. Back Stairs: Camera Session Called Off By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Gettyburg, Pa. (U.R) B a c k stairs at the Gettysburg White House: President Eisenhoer was to have posed for pictures on the farm Saturday, but the camera session was called off because of a steady, wet snow. Mr. Eisenhower's physician, Dr. Howard McC. Snyder, was not afraid of having the Presi dent exposed to the chilly damp weather, but he. was dead set against the risk of the President slipping and falling in the slushy conditions underfoot. Morse Reiterates Election Confidence Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) told the Portland Central Labor Council last night he was confident of reelection even though "I'm the No. 1 tar get." Morse said "Most of the occu pants of the leather bottom chairs in this state are not be hind me." He added, however that he was encouraged by the number of Republicans who have come to him around the state. Morse renewed his attack on Interior Secretary Douglas Mc Kay and said "responsibility for scuttling Hells Canyon rests chiefly on one man McKay." Morse attacked what he called a "reactionary press" in Oregon and alleged as false editorial charges that he is only for fed eral power. He said he would fight just as hard for private power in the proper place. I l Handsome outside, mellow inside mi no wonder Century Club ' " 6 YEARS OLD Mm etrELiglitBourtooaJWTiisJs.eyatBSIroofi.XJ'atloiil OiaUlZers .Products Corpb- N.V. Outside the entrance to the temporary White House press room here is a large sign which says "matinee today." This does not refer to Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's afternoon press conferences. The sign is an ad for the movie house next door. Hagerty's conferences, how ever, frequently take on the aspects of a show. Hordes of col lege students and school children frequently descend on the after noon conferences. The younger children, particularly, stand and watch the reporters whaling away at their typewriters. There's an apocryphal story going the rounds here that Mr. Eisenhower will have to buy more farm land if he continues to receive gifts of angus heifers. He's received two new cattle in the week he has been here which brings his herd to 18. The two cattle, which arrived here in the local postoffice are what once were the two general delivery windows. They've been closed, however, and general de livery mail recipients must go to another part of the building. This as done as a matter of security and convenience to the President and his staff. Navy Studying Joint Use of Hilisboro Base Hillshoro (.P) a im.. r ficial today said joint military civilian use of the proposed nav- ii ive training station at Hilisboro was being subjected to "intensive scrutiny." John E. Meeke, of the cham ber of commerce here, said a letter from Capt. James R. Davis 13th naval district public works' officer, told of the problems fac ing the proposed $12,000,000 in stallation. The naval officer said the southwest winds common at the airport site could be of serious concern to light, low-powered aircraft using the field. The wind would make it necessary for hl V craV a ruay which would intersect the pro posed new runway at almost right angles. Capt. Davis said the Navy was deeply concerned" about the si multaneous operation of the in tersecting runways and the fact most light planes would not be equipped with two-way radio and could not be controlled by the tower. The U. S. Articles of Confed eration were adopted on March -) lol. Fellowship Available For Science Teachers Some' 32 teachers of science in seven western states will be selected to receive $200 fellow ships for the 1956 West Coast Science Teachers summer confer ence of Oregon State college next June 17-0. The conference is snonsored by the Future Scientists of Amer ica foudation of the National Science Teachers association. Oregon State college and the r o w n Zellerbach foundation, San Francisco. Science'teachers for grades seven through 12 in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona schools are eligible for a fellowship. Appli cation forms are available from the Future Scientists of Amer ica foundation, National Science Teachers association, 1201 I6th St., NW, Washington 6, D.C. CZECHS TO PRINT NOVEL Vienna (U.R) Communist Czechoslovakia will publish a novel by a non-Communist Am erican author for the first time, the Prague daily newspaper Li dova Demokracie announced to day. The newspaper said Ern est Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" will be printed next year by the state-owned Nation- New Jet Bomber Breaks Sound Barrier Washington (U.R) The Air Force has disclosed that a sleek new jet bomber capable of car rying nuclear weapons broke through the sound barrier on its maiden flight last month. The plane, a needle-nosed Re public F105A with swept-back wings, made the test flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., last Oct. 22. The Air Force would not re veal the expected performance of the new plane. But authori ties hope it may have a top speed of 1,000 miles an hour. 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