Hoffman Says Combining Forestry
Functions Will Be Bureaucracy1
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribun. Correspondent
Washington A Republican
congressman who participated in
a congresional investigation of
federal timber
sales policies
thinks consol
idation of all
forestry func
tions under one
g o vernme n t
agency would
create "just
another bu
reaucracy." n 1
Rnh! Smith IKU. , i t i K
Hoffman (R-Mich.) said there is
no doubt but what there is waste,
overlapping and duplication un
der the present setup, as re
ported last week by a joint com
mittee on federal timber in back
ing up its recommendation that
all forestry functions be turned
over to the U. S. forest service.
"Centralization is alright," de
clared Hoffman, "but not if you
are going to make a political ma
chine out of it."
Congressman Hoffman was one
of the committee members who
traveled through the Pacific
Northwest last fall during the
hearings that were held on tim
ber sales policies of the forest
service, bureau of land manage
ment and Indian bureau. He said
he thought the reasons for con
ducting the investigation were
"fine."
"But the committee muffed its
opportunity," Hoffman said in
an interview, "and. we wasted
Uie taxpayers money.
Hoffman said it was fine to
study the problems of marketing
area restrictions, timber inven
tory, the amount of annual al
lowable cut and salvage sales,
and the need for access roads.
r "But who did they sond out
there a Philadelphia lawyer
(Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.), Sen.
(Richard L.) Neuberger (D-Ore.),
who talks a lot about timber and
is a good writer but doesn't know
anything about it," Hoffman
went on.
! "The striking thing is that
neither Chudoff nor I know a
damn thing about timber," said
(Hoffman.
i "Then they got a committee
-t-.ri t . . . .1 .
ow" Midi, act uui tu uruve Uletl
public ownership is best," con
tinued Hoffman. He said he was
referring specifically to Arthur
Perlman. tff rfimrlnr ef ihm
public works and resources sub-
m. 11- f .
Operations committee, and
James A. Lanigan, subcommittee
"Perlman and ' Lanigan be-
llmmm in nil alivotSnn ' ' nhni-naJ
the outspoken Michigan law-
maker, who is regarded as a con- than those two fellows," Hoff-
servative Republican.
Hoffman is the ranking Re
publican member of the Govern
ment Operations committee and
would become its chairman if
Republicans gain control of the
House once more.
"If Republicans win the elec
tion," he said, "the. committee
will go back and give the people
a chance to present their views."
He said he thought the com
mitlee hearings in the North
west last year were rigged, men
tioning the fact that two Repub
lican congressmen from the area
Reps. Harris Ellsworth (R
Ore.) and Russell V. Mack (R-
Wash.) were not permitted to
sit in on the hearings and cross-
examine witnesses.
'Probably nobody in Con
gress knows more about timber
Forest Industries
Add Billion to State
Portland The forest indus
tries of Oregon are adding more
than $1 billion annually to the
state's wealth, according to C
A. Gillett, managing director of
American Forest Products In
dustries, Washington, D.C.
Gillett, whose organization Is
national sponsor of the tree farm
program of private timberland
management and the Keep
America Green forest fire pre
vention campaign, said the de
partment of commerce's recent
census of manufacturers shows
iTest industries of the state in
1954 added nearly $662 million
in value through manufacture,
paid out $359 million in pay
rolls and spent $53 million in
capital improvements.
The $662 million value added
through manufacture represent
ed an increase of 60 per cent
since 1947, Gillett said.
Oregon's forest industries, the
report shows, employ more than
8s,000 persons. Forest industries
are those which manufacture
lumber, furniture and fixtures,
pulp, paper and other paper and
wood products.
Holdup Man Hits Girl,
Escapes With Receipts
Portland U.R) A holdup
man struck a 19-year-old girl in
the forehead with a revolver and
escaped with $80 from a studio
here yesterday, police reported.
Donna Turman told police she
was dazed by the blow and did
not see the mar, leave. The man
was described as young, about
six feet tall and weighing about
160 pounds.
sO t
uuqtrs irom me News
Br UNITED PBESS
Moscow soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin, venturing out as
a pundit on American politics, on his doubts Adlai Stevenson
will win the forthcoming presidential election:
in tie very surprised if he is elected."
Horn Mrs. Helen Subbaqh, 27, who fled to Rome with her
Infant son from an Arabian nightmare marriage with a Moslem in
Iraq, on a woman's status among Arabs:
a woman u so mucn curt on ine zioor.
New York Adlai Stevenson on Averell Harriman's conten
tion that he (Harriman) is an expression of the tradition of presi
dents rranKiin u. Roosevelt and Harry Truman:
"I should like to ask the governor who Mrs. Roosevelt is sup
porting, one supports oievenson.
Moscow A eab drWer on the government decree banning
norn-oiowingt
"Our hospitals will be- full of pedestrian and our jails full
ot drivers.
a1auhJw 1 : n : -3 a ilj.i 1 . .
country's determination to hold on to the recently seized Suez
Canal:
"Egypt will fight to the last drop of blood to retain this owner
ship.
Washington President Eisenhower on Vice President Nixon
as still his choice io retain the second position on the Republican
ticket this fall:
"I see no reason io draw such a conclusion ... but you may.'
Washington Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, President Ei
senhower s physician, on the Chief Executive's health after a
checkup Wednesday:
"I think he will be able to do as much as he would have
without this (ileitis) attack."
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Enjoy a family reunion
tonight by telephone
man added.
Hoffman declined to take issue
with the recommendations of
the majority on the committee,
explaining that he simply
thought the work of the commit
tee had not been adequate to per
mit making such recommenda
tions. Committee aides indicated that
Hoffman was the only dissenter
on the joint Senate-House com
mittee which conducted the tim
ber probe. Hoffman said he had
prepared a written report which
had not come from the govern
ment printing office yet, , but
would be circulated later.
Oregon Treasury
Surplus $28,000,000
Salem (U.R) The state of
Oregon will close the books on
this biennium with a surplus of
approximately $28,000,000, Gov.
Elmo Smith said yesterday.
After conferring with the State
Tax Commission, the governor
said that tax revenues would
provide a margin of about 7 per
cent over expenditures for the
two year period ending June 30,
1957.
"The healthy condition of the
state treasury again assures tax
payers that no state property tax
levy will be necessary for the
coming year," the State Tax com
mission reported.
: Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
Albacore Tuna Seen
Off Coast of Oregon
Astoria (U.R) Albacore tuna,
not seen in coastal waters of
Oregon and Washington since
the 1940s, have appeared in
small numbers about 300 miles
west of here, according to the
local office of the Oregon Fish
Commission.
Two craft searching the Pa
cific for albacore reported that
45 of the fish have been caught
in an area generally 270 to 300
miles off the coast from Willapa
bay to off Cascade head. The
boats were due here tomorrow
to refuel.
THE SMITHS
Nashville, Tenn. (U.R) A
Mrs. A. V. Newman attended a
"Smith" wedding. The bride and
bridegroom were both Smiths,
Thursday, August 2, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHB XTXM
Stockton Becomes Link
In Ore Shipments
Stockton, Calif. ' Port of
Stockton this week joined as the
middle link in a production chain
that will carry nickel ore from
Riddle, Ore., to Santa Rosalia,
Mexico.
The ore is the first nickel to
be shipped through the Port's
bulk handling facility. It origin
ated at the Hanna Coal and Ore
Company in Douglas county in
southwest Oregon and will be
carried by ship from Stockton
to the smelting plants of Comp
ania Minera Santa Rosalia.
the soloist and organist also
were Smiths, as were most of
of the attendants.
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