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.
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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.
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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
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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.
The Amazon river is navigable
for about 1,700 miles.
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During one of Hagerty's press
conferences the other day, Rob
ert Montgomery of screen and
television fame, borrowed a 35
millimeter camera from a Life
ma g a z i n e photographer and
amused himself by snapping pic
tures of the reporters. -
A red golf flag flies over the
hole on President Eisenhower's
practice putting green at the
farm. The flag carries five, stars
commemorative of Mr. Eisen
howers former military rank.
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