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rOtfHTEZH MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. July 11. 1358 BLM Head Cites Success of Private Tree Farm Operation By A. ROBERT SMITH J "Much o the enthusiasm for ' Mail Tribun. Corrwpondent public ownership of forest lands Washington The sympathetic j haj 8rjsen i general from the attitude of the Department of ! belief that the public interest is the Interior toward some sort of j better served when such lands plan to dispose were retained in public owner- A. BobL Smith Woorley said : success of privately operated : tree farms has done much to war rant a restudy of the compara ' tive effectiveness of government ' vs. private ownership of western publie lands. "If it can be demonstrated that the private industry tree-farm can and will provide higher standards of efficiency in forest management than federal for estry programs," declared Wooz ley, '"the impact upon public thinking would be tremendous." Woozley made his observations in a prepared speech at the dedi cation of the Potlatch River tree farms, Kendrick, Ida. It follows ' close behind the report to Con gress of the Interior Department that it is "sympathetic" with ; the objectives of legislation that would permit disposal of federal . lands to private interests or the states. Last week Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) asked In terior to clarify what it meant ; by this, and conservationists be : gan expressing alarm over this ,' proposal. Mass Funeral Due : : UAL Crash Victims ; Flagstaff, Ariz. (U.R) ' - United Air Lines has announced j that the unidentified victims of ; the UAL DC 7 crash in Grand j Canyon will be buried at a pri- j vate mass funeral. I W. A. Patterson, UAL presi- i 4 dent, revealed Tuesday that the J time and place for the mass j . burial has not been decided and ' will be announced later. The j airliner carried 53 persons to ' " death when it apparently collid ed with a Trans World Airlines S'jper Constellation June 30. ' ; An inquest was held Tuesday ; Into the deaths of the persons aboard the UAL plane. The jury was given a list of the 29 identi " Iicd bodies and shortly after ruled the deaths were accident , si The same ruling was hand : ed down earlier for the 70 vic- tims on the TWA plane. All but three of those who , died aboard the SuRer Constel- lation were laid to rest Monday ' following mass services at the ; Flagstaff cemetery. The three , victims were taken to their '. kome towns for burial. or some teaerai : sh;p said -Voozley. "It is my forests andhop(? and belief that the tree grazing lands j farm program will demonstrate was spelled! 1nat thp pubijc interest can also out in more;be weU served where forest detail tniS;ianjc ar- nrivatplv nwnpH Al ready there is growing evidence that there are equally as good forestry practices in the private industry tree farms as in forests managed by federal agencies." Woozley explained that BLM administers public domain for- week by Ed w a r d Wooz ley, director of the Bureau of Land Manage ment. he thinks the est lands and the O&C timber lands of western Oregon. "These public domain forest lands are subject to disposal by sale or otherwise under the pub lic land laws, when classified as suitable for non-federal owner ship," he went on. "In some sit uations, where parcels of public domain forest land are surround ed by or adjacent to private or state tree farmlands it is possible that ownership of such land by the private tree farmer or the state would result in their re ceiving a higher standard of management than they are like ly to receive if retained in fed eral ownership. Where such cir cumstances exist I feel that the public interest may be furthered by permitting transfer of the lands from federal to private control. Greater Adraniags "In situations where inter mingled private and federal lands can both be operated under tree farm practices of about the same standard, there may be greater advantage in de veloping coordinated manage ment plans than can be gained by change of ownership. This approach appears to be especial ly desirable where the federal lands are reasonably well grouped for practical manage ment and only the choicer por tions of the group would be at tractive to private ownership. In some such cases the choice tracts of a group might well prove to be key tracts which, if removed from the group, would render federal management of the remainder more costly and much more difficult. Under those circumstances I feel that classifying public domain forest lands for disposal would not pro duce desirable results unless the entire group of federal lands could be purchased or selected." Woozley said nothing about disposing of the O&C lands. He observed that they are in large part intermingled with private land holdings and that "there is active cooperation between the bureau and the managers of the private lands." "Neither the government nor the private owners can do busi ness as effectively as they should in that area unless they consult with each other in planning a va riety of matters such as road systems, timber sales, reforesta tion, and protection measures. It is a real test of the partner ship ability of government and industry to cooperate success fully in solving the complex problems of an enormous tree farming venture." Neither Parly Said Worthy of Support San Francisco (U.R) The executive board of the Interna t i o n a 1 Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union declared today that neither party has a good enough record in Congress to warrant the support of labor. The board issued a policy statement criticizing Republi cans and Democrats for failing to do enough in the field of civil rights. civil liberties. jobs, wages, union rights and the cost cf living. , As for the leading presidential contenders in both parties, the board said it had "so far seen or heard nothing" that holds out the promise of "moving our SWITCH FOILS SUICIDE Uelzen, Germany (U.PJ Pow er company engineers threw a switch Tuesday to win a race with death. 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