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tice William J. Brennan (foreground) listens attentively
tif testimony before the Senate judiciary committee at
open hearing in Washington on his nomination. Left is
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who is not a
member of the committee but who asked to be allowed
to question Brennan. At right is Senator Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957
14 Pages
'Papa Knows Best' Attitude Displayed by
BLM in Handling Marketing of O&C Timber
University Museum Has Prized Possessions
Norman Okla. (U.PJ An
egret bat, a woman's girdle, a
blowgun and a canoe are prized
possessions of the University of
Oklahoma's Stovall Museum.
The items are part of a ship
ment to the university of some
177 Indian articles from the
Aclor Jack Webb, Wife Part Again
Hollywood W.R) Actor Jack
Webb, the "Joe Friday" of the
televised Q"Dragnet" series and
his wife, Dorothy Towne, have
parted for the third time.
A spokesman for Webb said
Wednesday, the separation was
"final," but that there were no
Plans for divorceyet.
Webb and Miss Towne were
wed in Chicago June 11, 1955.
They separated six months later,
were reconciled, parted again
last Oct. 29, then made up again.
Miss Towne was reported to
have loft for Mexico about a
week ago.
Webb, the former husband of
singer Julie London, is making
a feature length movie at Repub
lic Studios.
Hailstorm Halts Traffic
In North Carolina Town
Boone, N.C. U.R A hail
storm halted traffic for 15 min
utes and covered the ground
with hail pellets up to a half
inch in diameter in this moun
tain town Wednesday.
The temperature dropped 10
degrees during the afternoon
storm. No serious damage was
reported.
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The Bureau of
Land Management has just dis
played what a House investigat
ing suDcommu-
ten nisi TT
ing about when
it said that too
many agencies
have adopted
a "papa knows
best" attitude
in keeping le
gitimate infor
mation con-
t1,,u,fi r""' A RnhtL Smith
issues from the public at large.
BLM has now made public a
report prepared by a private for
est expert, Paul F. Graves, but
the manner in which it did so
bears describing as an illustra
tion of the heart of the problem
raised by the tendency of gov
ernment officials to clamp a
tight lid on any information that
will not reflect favorably on
their agencies.
The Graves report is critical
of BLM's long-standing policy
of imposing marketing restric
tions on the federal timber it
puts up for bid on western Ore
gon's O&C lands. Its most sen
sational conclusion is that these
restrictions have limited compe
tition, thereby reducing bid
prices for O&C timber and in
turn causing the 18 O&C coun
ties that share timber revenues
to lose in the neighborhood of
$5,000,000 over a three-year pe
riod. Professor Graves, of Syracuse
university, studied the O&C sit
uation for two months last sum
mer, then submitted his careful
ly documented report in Octo
ber. The report was held in con
fidence by bureau officials who
relished not the thought of the
commotion it might stir up in
behalf of changes in BLM poli
cies. BLM had hired Professor
Graves to make the report be
cause of pressure from Congress,
for the Senate Interior commit
tee last summer concluded a
long study of federal timber sale
policies with a recommendation
that marketing area restrictions
be reconsidered. Hie committee
requested that BLM study the
problem and report back on
whether it would continue or
erase marketing areas, and the
reasons why.
Some weeks ago BLM an
nounced it would hold a public
hearing in Portland March 1 to
let the issue be debated. But,
according to informed sources,
BLM. had no intention of dis
closing the contents of the
Graves report prior to that hear
ing. Obviously, it would provide
the most lethal ammunition for
opponents of BLM policy.
Meanwhile, a newspaper re
porter gained access to the con
tents of the report, and his story
in this newspaper made head
lines over the finding that the
counties were losing money due
to BLM's restrictions on free
competition for timber.
BLM acted with typical "papa
knows best" form. Off its mim
eographed machines came a
press release purporting to de-
Opposition Voiced
To Siskiyou Sales Tax
Yreka Opposition to a county
sales tax in Siskiyou county was
voiced at a meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce here this week.
Yreka supervisor, Bill Ealy,
already on record as opposing a
county sales tax, contended that
"any additional tax would drive
the business into Oregon." He
said he thought a sales tax might
be alright at a later date in the
event Oregon passes a similar
tax.
Harry Friedman, Yreka, city
councilman, said Susanville city
officials told him "not one mer
chant in 500" would say estab
lishment of a sales tax in that
city had hurt him.
The city councilman pointed
out that, a sales tax would pro
vide Yreka with more money
than the city's entire current in
come from various forms of li
censing. Friedman noted that Yreka
does not have enough money to
construct projects necsssary for
city streets and their improve
ment, or for other city improvements.
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scribe what was in the Graves
report yet it didn't even hint
that Graves had been critical of
marketing restrictions or had
recommended their demise.
BLM's press release, indeed, ig
nored the entire 115-page narra-
Siskiyou Seeking
Aircraft Plant
Yreka A move to obtain a
multimillion dollar aircraft as
sembly plant in Siskiyou county
was launched recently by sev
eral citizens who have solicited
support of county supervisors.
Jim LeBaron, Yreka business
man, proposed that a three man
delegation be sent to Boeing air
craft headquarters in Seattle in
an attempt to obtain location of
a proposed Boeing plant in Sis
kiyou county.
He said Siskiyou isolation lo
cation would fit in with the gov
ernment's plan for dispersal of
strategic plants from vulnerable
areas. LeBaron pointed out that
the Montague site already has a
7,500 foot heavy duty runway,
and a spur railroad track is
nearby for materials shipment.
LeBaron said "a final assem
bly plant would employ about
5,000 workers, and might double
Siskiyou's population." He sug
gested that a brochure outlining
assets and advantages of the Sis
kiyou airport be prepared for
distribution to aircraft com
panies throughout California.
tive in which Professor. Graves
first describes O&C timber sale
practices and their economic ef
fect on local lumbering commu
nities and then reaches his con
clusions that they should be
changed. j
In an effort to district atten-:
tion from this conclusion, BLM :
dug deep into th appendix to
find statistics in a set of tables ,
from which it concluded that
BLM sale prices were about $9
per thousand board feet more
than those received by the For
est Service in the same general j
area. BLM argued that it would j
have received $15.7 million less i
than it did in the three-year I
study period if it had followed '
practices of the Forest Service, '
which does not impose market-,
ing "limits. j
Statements Refuted j
Candidly admitting the pur- j
pose of its press release, BLM j
then claimed this "refutes pub
lished statements to the effect
that marketing procedures for
O&C timber might have cost the
18 O&C counties potential addi
tional revenue." BLM sought to
give the impression that its con-1
elusion was the kernel of the 1
Graves report, when in fact the i
professor didn't even discuss it. J
In any event, deliberately dis-;
torted as it was, this representa
tion compelled BLM to make
public the report it would have
preferred to sit on as though it
had an inalienable right to de
cide what facts of government
should be withheld from public
scrutiny.
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with the In
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clothing, utensils and weapons
typical of the way of life of 11
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to O. U.
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