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o THURSDAY, JUNE 16. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OHE. .8 D Big Reforestation Program Completed in Rogue Forest The largest reforestation program in the history of Rogue River National forest was completed last week as hot weather forced an end to tree planting activities on even the highest slopes. Nearly 2 million seedling trees were planted on 3.U5U acres of recently logged land during the fiscal year now drawing to a close, according to Forest Supcrivsor Carroll . Brown. An additional 200 acres were resceded using 186 pounds of tree seed. The forest planting pro gram furnished over 4,000 man-days of employment in the Rogue basin area, Brown said. A portion of the job was done by contractors, but the greater part was carried out by forest service crews. Start of Seaion The planting season actual ly started last fall, after the first soaking rains. On some parts of the forest, it con tinued at a reduced pace throughout much of the win ter. However, the big effort In plnnting took place during the spring months as the snow blanket melted from the higher parts of the forest, Brown noted. The cool, wet spring offer ed unusually favorable con ditions for tree planting, mak ing it possible to extend the season almost a month longer than is normal in this area. A better than average sur vival Is anticipated because of the damp weather, favor able for transplanting, he ad ded. Pondcrosa pine was the principal tree species planted with some sugar pine and western pine planted on por tions of the Union Creek and Prospect districts, where the spread of white pine blister rust disease has been control- ed by the eradication of ribes bushes. Pine Planting Stock Jeffrey pine planting stock was used in some higher ele vations. Douglas-fir seedlings were planted on most north slopes and cooler sites while on the highest elevation plant ing areas Shasta red fir and while fire were favored. Test plantings of small quantities of giant sequoia, Japanese black pine and knobcone pine will be observed for response, Brown noted. The seedlings for planting came from five different nurs eries. They are Forest Service nurseries at Wind River, Wash.; Bend. Ore., and Mc- Cloud and Placcrville, Calif.; and the State Forestry De partment nursery at Elkton, Ore. Most of the planting stock had been raised specifically for use on the local forest from seed collected in this area in previous years. Both one-year and two-year-old seedlings were used in the field planting. Some "wildings" seedlings were collected locally near the planting sites, Brown said. These were young trees, some times found growing in pro fusion along recently graded road banks and similar loca tions subjected to a heavy seed fall. Direct Seeding The seed used for direct seeding was also collected loc ally. Most of the forest's tree seed is processed by Tepper Tree Seed Co. of Shady Cove. Seed used for direct seeding Graduate Students May Live on OSC Campus Next Year Corvallis Space will be reserved In Oregon Stale col lege dormitories this fall for graduate students who desire to live on campus, Thomas F. Adams, dormitory director, has announced. In past years, graduate slu dents lived in various units throughout the dormitory system, but this will be the first year that they will be living in separate areas desig nated for graduate students only. The new area will provide an atmosphere that is more conducive for concentrated study, Adams said. Both the men and women graduate students will have units re served for them. Building Program Under the dormilory build ing program the past five years, there will be ample space for all freshmen, sopho more, junior and senior stu dents who wish to reside in on-campus residence halls. OSC now has residence hall space for 3.009 students. Dur ing the past five years, five residence halls with a capaci ty of 1,550 students have been built. Residence hall space will be sufficient for the next two years, but with the predicted increasing enrollments addi tional residence halls will need to be completed and ready for occupancy by 1903, Adams reported. Small Living Groups The 1,590 men and 1,419 women students in the resi dence halls are divided into small living groups with be tween 60 and 80 students each. Each group has an up perclass student appointed as an adviser wlio counsels and assists tile underclassmen j with academic as well as per sonal problems. This program has been found to be increasingly help ful to students, especially freshmen, in making the trans ition from high school to col lege studies, living and activi ties, college officials pointed out. was treated with a rodent re pellent to discourage seed eat ing mice and chipmunks. Development of white and sugar pine planting stock re sistant to the blister rust dis sease is the objective of one program of the local forest service organization, accord ing to Brown. Ho said it has been discov ered that susceptibility to the imported diseases varies greatly between individual trees. Some tree specimens have been found that appear to be completely resistant to the cankers of the rust dis ease. Brown said "the rust resist ant characteristic can be in herited, as observed from studies made by the forest service in Idaho and at the small seed orchards at the Wind River nursery in Wash ington. Rust resistant while and sugar pine are being established in the Prospect area by grafting branchlings from rust resistant trees onto seedlings of ordinary pine trees. This work, together with experiments in controll ed pollination and hybridiza tion of certain selected pine trees, is one of the many ac tivities on the local national forest." f -zr-wd r-H VJin 5 Tfi TT1 ii i ffilr I'i 'ffliflU LIKE DAD, LIKE SON MinneaDolis - IUP1I - Many DeoDle are bad drivers be cause their parents were, says E. Ray Cory, president oi me Minnesota State Automobile acennintinn. "The vounester who has watched his parent for many years flout tratnc laws tends to grow up with an understandably irresponsible attitude toward his driving," Cory said. Two Ypuths Escape From MacLaren School Portland - H'PD - State po lice said Wednesday they were searching for two youths from MacLaren School for Boys near Woodburn, who fled from the University of Oregon Medical School Hospital here Tuesday night. New York - M - Voting machine manufacturers e x pect record sales this year. More than 105,000 machines are expe:ted to be in use this fall as compared with 89,000 in the 1956 presidential elec tion year, according to Auto matic Voting Machine Divis ion of Rockwell Manufactur ing Co. They will be install ed in about 77 of the largest 100 cities in the country. Poached.. softboileixomel t OFFICIAL CALL Admiral Ishiguro of the Japanese Maritime self defense force made an official call on Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland recently and presented him with pictures sent by children of Yokosuka to the City of Portland, and also presented a letter of greeting from Mayor Nagano of Yoko suka. As they look over the pictures in the Mayor's office, (left) Ruth Halvorsen, head of art department, Portland public schools; Jack Edwards, superintendent of public schools, Portland; Rear Admiral Ishiguro; Mayor Schrunk; Yoshio Nakagima, super intendent of schools from Sapporo, Japan. (UPI Telephoto) LiQJU OREGON FARM FRESH EGGS Guaranteed fresh! Eugene Boy Killed In Fall From Truck Eugene-IUro - Eight-year-old Bucrl A. Gustafson was killed Tuesday afternoon when he fell from a truck driven by his father's employer, Wil liam Wallace Brown. Buerl was the son of James Gustaf- son. Brown told state police the boy was riding on the pas senger side of the truck cab as the vehicle turned into Brown's driveway, on Fern Ridge rd. northwest of Eu gene, at about 10 miles an hour. Brown said the boy ap parently had his hand on the door handle, the door flew open, and the boy fell out. Japanese Premier Expected To Quit Tokyo-ltiril-Nobucly will bo surprised in Jnpim if Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi re signs after President Eisen hower completes his visit to J this country. The pressure has become almost unbearably heavy on tiie 63-ycar-old pro-Western I lender and most observers of I tiie political scenes generally ; believe that he will bow to demands to quit. 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