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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 16. 1953 (Saturday)
Medford, host city for the
21st annual Pacific Northwest
Shrine association during the
past three days, started re
turning to normal today as the
last of the visiting Shriners
started for home,
A survey for a proposed
emergency landing strip be
tween Medford and Klamath
Falls has been authorized by
the state board of aeronautics.
20 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1943 (Sunday)
-,- Newsrecl cameramen pho
tnaraoh simulated attack on
"German village" conducted
by trooos at Camp White.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
number of new autos" are
showing up. Either that or
they have been washed as
never before.
30 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1833 (Tuesday)
Local ranchers receive fed
eral aid for financing fruit
crops.
Danger of frost damage to
valley fruit crops ends; pear
crop expected to be heavy.
40 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1823 (Wednesday)
Graduates of Oregon State
collego reported seeking work
In Rogue valley orchards.
. Bulk coffee sells in Medford
grocery stores for 40 cents a
pound,
SO YEARS AGO
May 18. 1913 (Friday)
Survey works started for
Medlord trolley line; construc
tion to start by June 1.
U.S. district court denies
city of Medford right to adjust
rate schedule of Home Tele
phone company of Southern
Oregon.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina ei ran correct Is superior;
even or tight ll aicallent; live or
sis h good.
1. The twenty second
amendment to the Constitu
tion provides for what?
. 2. Under which President's
administration was the Re
construction Finance Corpora
tlon established?
3. Where did Christ pray In
the evenings proceeding his
crucifixion?
. 4. Name the mythological
messenger of the gods.
8. What Is the principal
celebration of the Jewish Pass.
over in the family home?
6. Which federal agency
controls radio and television
broadcasting?
' 7. Name the U. S. President
who was bachelor.
: 8. For which state Is "Con-
ititution" the nickname?
. B. What strait is at the
southern tip of South Amerl-
ca?
10. Is a condiment a kind
of vehicle, pungent seasoning
or paint coloring?
Answers! 1, Limits tha Pres
ident to two terms, 2. Herbert
Hoover. 3. Cardan of Gelh
soman. 4. Mercury. 5. Tha
Bedar (Passover Supper), t.
Federal Communications Com
mission. T. Jamas Buchanan.
I. Connecticut, t. Strait ot
Magellan. 10. Pungent seasoning.
I'm
02;
THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1963
A Reply
We received the following letter the other
day:
To the Editor: A correspondent of ours in Oregon
tell us that you have shown an interest in the South's
racial problems on your editorial page.
We Southerners are delighted to see that other
parts of the Nation arc becoming interested in the race
problem and welcome the sincere desire to help.
Would you on behalf of your subscribers welcome
into your community several hundred Negro families
from the South? If you will write such a welcome in
the form of an editorial we will give it wide publicity
throughout the South and will help raise the neces
.' sary transportation cost for these Negro migrants.
Perhaps you would print this letter in your letters
to the editor column.
We believe that the most nearly Christian solution
to the race problem is migration and dispersion
throughout our Nation. I am mailing you under sepa
rate cover statistics on this subject which may interest
you.
Sincerely,
III Robert B. Patterson
Secretary
Citizens' Council
Greenwood, Miss,
a
MO, Mr. Patterson. We would NOT welcome
' "several hundred Negro families from the
South" here not so long as they are shipped
off like a bunch of diseased cattle just to get
them out of your way.
You. Mr. Patterson,
your and their forebears,
until 100 years ago. since tnen you nave ex
Dloited them, refused them adequate education,
refused them even a chance to improve them
selves. You have prevented them from learning
skills which would have made it possible for
them to rise on the economic ladder.
You. Mr. Patterson,
generations have treated
beings like sub-humans, subject to iyncnings,
beatings, intimidation, night-riding.
VOU and your ilk, Mr. Pattei'son, under the
cruise of "states' rights," have made and kept
an entire group of people second class citizens
when, indeed, you permitted them any of the
dignities and privileges
You and your UK, by
and even more overt methods including, most
recently,' dogs, hoses and bombs have pre
vented them from voting, from serving on juries,
from attending your schools, even from using
common lunch counters or restrooms.
You say they are ignorant, irresponsible, lazy,
unclean, diseased. In many cases this is true. And
you are to blame; you and your determination
to maintain your privileged status by holding
others down, by depriving them or. the dignity
and opportunity to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness to which each American regard
less ot color is entitled. -
e , e a
MO, Mr. Patterson, we
offer, because it is a
critical otfer; nearly as
hypocritical as the slave trade itself.
We do know that, inevitably in times to come,
Americans whose skins are black will come here
to live and seek a livelihood. And we know that
it will bring problems difficult and serious
problems, just as it has in Detroit and Chicago
and Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Port
land, and in other smaller communities.
We will not welcome
we have so far been without them, and no one
likes to borrow trouble.
Still, when the time
that men of good will and they are legion
will do their utmost to see that the problems are
settled with fairness, justice and honor.
QNE-SIXTH of the nation's population has
dark skin. And these people, as never before
in history, are demanding the right to be treated
simply as Americans, and not as inferiors, as
people set aside from the
1 hey are demanding
own choices, and not to be shoved around, or to
be shipped off like a group of slaves just to satis
fy the malevolence of racist Citizens' Councils.
We must, if we are
which made America great, learn to live side-
by-side with each other, and to deny equal oppor
tunities to none.
This will not be easy
Negro. There are agonizing times ahead. But the
challenge is one of the
ever taced.
They can meet it if
bring themselves to do
as they would have others do unto them. E.A
Pollution
A friend of ours in the
us yesterday to say that we had been unfair
when, in an editorial Tuesday, we gave no credit
to local mills for trying to abate air pollution.
Our friend has a point, and we hereby take
pleasure in pointing out that some local mills
nave, indeed, spent considerable sums in attempts
some more successful than others to mini
mize smoke and flyash
The point of the editorial remains, however,
uiui- an ordinance without any realistic enforce
mcnt procedures is about as worthless as an ordi
nance outlawing sin.
There is the added,
point, that much remains to be learned about
now io aoate air poiiuium, and that an effective
ordinance, with teeth, would be the best possible
framework for such studies to be made with the
urgency needed if the problem is to be solved in
me ioreseeaoie future.
to a Letter
and your colleagues ana
held Negroes as slaves
and your fellows, for
these fellow human
of citizenship at all.
collusion, subterruge,
would, not accept your
brutalizing, evil, hypo
evil and brutalizing and
these problems, because
comes, we are convinced
stream of life.
the right to make their
to live up to the ideals
for anyone white or
greatest Americans have
and only if they can
unto others, ALL others,
Postscript
lumber business called
from their burners.
and eouallv imnnvtant.
E.A.
" . . . Out, Out, Brief Candle!
Life's But A Walking Shadow . . .
ia"nm.Wayatywfg' m SV IH.,.
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paper. In fact the contrary is often the case.
An Old Story
To the Editor: Sylvia Por
ter, in "Your Money's Worth,"
takes the total personal in
come in U.S., divides by the
number of families and single
individuals, and comes up op
timistically with an average
income of $7,140.
Like the man wrote the
other day about the fellow
drowning in a river that was
only an average of two feet
deep, such deductions can be
dangerous.
Let's look al some other fig
ures. According to the Fed
eral Reserve Bulletin:
"Twenty-five per cent of all
American families have no
liquid assets and 66 per cent
of all families have less than
$900 in liquid assets.
"Fifty per cent of all fami
lies have no saving account.
Thirteen per cent have saving
account balances of less than
$200."
Anybody over 50 can re
member what was said be
fore the depression of the
thirties, that wo were on the
threshold of the greatest era
of prosperity in history, Just
have faith, confidence and op
timism. It's an old story,
Frank Crum
' White City, Ore.
Bird Calls
To the Editor: A School for
the Blind letter today comes
from almost half-way round
the world. It testifies they
continue using recorded bird
calls when snowbound, out-of-door
bird music hikes in
summer for their sightless.
The year 1864 will mark
the semicentennial of the dis
covery, by us-?, of this nature
study work. We were in Cop
enhagen investigating Den
mark's Nature Study Field
Excursions, (later basis of
U.S.A.'s National Park's Rang
er Naturalist Movement).
We were told applicants for
teachers positions were grad
ed on, not what they wrote,
but on their pupils composi
tions. The Danes invited us-2
to join a nature walk for blind
kiddies, to Royal Deer Park
at Klampenbourg. Prizes were
for 3 grades: la) bullfinch,
chaffinch, greenfinch songs,
(b) the more musical black
bird. (Theirs, a thrush, hence
a songster. Ours an oriole with
only a squeak.) (c) Top prize:
the nightingale, none too com
mon that far north.
We-2 look notes, photo
graphs, circulated a pamph
let worldwide to Schools for
the Blind. On a 10 -year
check, one finds continued
use after a half century.
Some of your readers may
even today spread the talc.
C. M. Goethe
3731 Tea St.
Sacramento 16, Calif.
Horrible Example
To the Editor: The Medford
High School had a wonderful
concert Tuesday night. It con
sisted of the various fine sing
ing grotips. competently train
ed by Mr. Frame and Mr. Sjo
hind. It was Indeed gratifying
to see them and listen to the
excellent work they had
learned.
My only complaint was, be
lieve it or not, the audience!
The attendance was woefully
small and at least one third of
them came late - straggling
and clattering in during the
singing. They were not con
tent to quietly take a seat
near the rear until the end of
a selection, but they clomped
down the aisles, some talking
quite loudly, disturbing not
only those who had the cour
tesy to arrive before 8 when
the performance began, hut
creating so much disturbance
to almost drown out the solo
ists. I would estimate the ages
of these "Johnny-comc-latcly"
clods to be anywhere from 35
to SO - in any case mature
enough to know better.
What a horrible example of
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
rudeness to set before these
young people who were try
ing to give the parents and
friends an example of their
best abilities.
(Name on file)
' Medford
A Thank You
To the Editor: A thank you
is not adequate to express my
appreciation for the wonder
ful care I received from Dr.
Buonocore and the entire staff
while at the Sacred Heart
Hospital, and to my many
friends for the cheerful cards
and letters and beautiful
plants.
I am convalescing al my
daughter's home, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Elrod, 618 Cherry st.,and
will be happy to have friends
stop in there for a visit any
afternoon or evening.
Mrs. Ethel Guches
618 Cherry St.
Medford
Fair Trial and Hang 'Em
To the Editor: So now I
hear that the highwaymen are
trying to take over historic
Jacksonville, with a fast-draw
action In the street - but not
a fair fight.
Armed with bulldozers and
blasting powder, the engi
neers intend to destroy what
is unquestionably one of the
West's finest mining camps
witn a mocleVn highway. They
seem to take great delight
in such destruction, like small
boys attacking their sister's
sand castles.
Apparently these engineers
have no feel or respect for
important places of our Amer
ican heritage, which should
be preserved for future gen
erations. While we worry
about destruction from the
skies, mass destruction of
cherished things is taking
place right before our eyes.
The ruination of historic
places is a national scandal.
What these highwaymen need
is to take a course in "Ameri
can appreciation."
This sort of thing wrecked
parts of California's Mother
Lode. Now it threatens won
derful old Jacksonville. But
whenever landmarks have
been saved, it's taken a lot
of tough doing on the part
of many people and a regular
vigilance committee to ride
herd on these renegades.
So let's head -em off ai
the pass. Tell 'em to pick up
their gear and take their high
way yonder, that-away. And
if they don't, well pardncr,
the Old West had a most ef
fective way of dealing with
highwaymen who became a
nuisance and tried taking over
a town. Give 'em a fair trial
and hang 'cm.
Ellis Lucia,
1835 North Highlaud,
Portland 17, Ore.
A Riddle
To the Editor: Take a walk
in the damp, May woods, and
answer me a riddle:
Has Nature, weary Willi the
old things, taken a pattern
and lashioncd a new Crea
tion, alter endless ages of
knowing countless cones that
have fallen to the forest
floor? ... Or have the disin
tegrating atoms of innumera
ble cones, decaying In the
duff, conjured up a latent
reincarnation - a dear re-use
for their select numbers?
For there, in the damp May
woods, you will find cones
unricscribed in botanical texts
and historic nature-records (I
cannot find ihcm).
They stand erect upon the
stem, but you cannot casually
take them up to sack for
starting early fires: they arc
grown to the ground! The
slender specimens, of light-
brownish color, seem io be
last year's white-pine cones
faded by twelve month's rain,
wind, and sun. Larger ones
remain dark brown as freih
ly fallen, but closer inspection
Michel Debre, Once
Back in French Asse
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Michel Debre had the dis
tinction of serving France as
premier longer than any oth
er man in the
history of the
five republics
which follow
ed the French
Revolut t o n.
He also had
the dubious
distinction of
being the most
- prominent
a m o n g D e
Gaulle followers to lose out
in his bid for election to the
French Assembly in the De
Gaulle landslide of last No
vember. But now Debre is . back
again.
Debre served as French
premier from the beginning
of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic
on Jan. 8, 1859, to April 14,
1962.
For 13 years, Debre had
worked for De Gaulle's return
to power and as premier no
man could have served De
Gaulle with greater loyalty.
But a year ago, Debre re
signed his office. Some said
De Gaulle had eased him out.
Debre himself said that with
the settlement of the Algeria
revolt, France was entering
upon a new era which re
quired new faces and that he
himself was tired.
When he lost out in the No
vember elections, many said
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Question:
What about the word
SCRUBBED, used in the dis
patches to indicate postpone
ment, or cancellation?
It's a part of the new world
in which we're living - new
manners, new mores,' new
WORDS.!
N THE world that is pass
ing, this word SCRUB had
two meanings, according to
Webster:
1. To rub hard, to clean a
thing by scrubbing, to cleanse
of impurities.
2. To be diligent, or PENU
RIOUS, as: "to scrub hard for
a living."
PENURIOUS!
Scrubbing hard for a liv
ing!!! Obviously, that meaning
had to be got rid of. In this
older world that we are leav
ing b e h 1 n d, "penurious"
meant EXCESSIVELY SPAR
ING IN THE USE OF MON
EY. In the newer world that
we are entering, being sparing
in the use of money is the
last thing that must be
thought of. It just mustn't be
done any more.
It must be SCRUBBED.
NEW DAYS.
NEW WAYS.
There was a time when just
making a living was the chief
concern of Americans. Now
we are spending twice as
much to get to the moon as
it cost to run our whole fed
eral government as recently
as 1940.
In 1940, the total cost of
the federal government was
$9,062,032,304. Now the in
terest on our national debt
is about ten billion dollars -and
we're spending 20 bil
lion dollars to put a man on
the moon.
WHAT would our great
grandfathers have thought
of it all?
One hates to say.
It would sound profane.
BUT -Let's
not be cynical.
Let's look at the doughnut
and not at the hole.
IX TAKES MEN
to make
worlds.
It took MEN to strike out
across the mysterious and ter
rifying Western Sea to find
this world of ours. After it
was found, it look MEN to
settle it and to make of it
the best world ever yet known
by man.
It takes MEN to strike off
into outer space. We still have
that kind of men. Not only
are they WILLING. They are
eager for the chance and hold
it to be a HIGH HONOR to
be chosen. As long as we
have that kind of men, we'll
be all right.
reveals a deep purple under
tone, and tiny, orchid stars
peep timidly out upon the
world, from between the cone
scales. As you stroll in the damp,
living world of the May for
est, stooping to touch - to feel
and to commune with the life
mere, take care: that pine-
cone you are about to take
up for gracing the manUc,
may not come easily away
with your hand. And If it
does not, perhaps you, too,
will have found one of these
mysterious darlings of Nature.
If you find them, and if
you can - please tell us what
they arc!
V. Card.
Route 2, Box 14.
Jacksonville, Ore.
he was the victim of his own
loyalty to De Gaulle-that he
was paying the penalty for
serving as De Gaulle's hatchet
man in the assembly.
In any event, he seemed rel
egated to obscurity.
But Debre refused to admit
defeat. A by-election on the
French-owned island of Re
union, 6,000 miles away, gave
him another opportunity. He
flew to Reunion, campaigned
furiously and won.
Now it is. anticipated that
De Gaulle has another job for
him as president of the Gaul
list U.N.R. faction of the as
sembly, where strong leader
ship notably has been lacking
at another difficult testing
time for De Gaulle's leader
ship. France, the former sick man
of Europe, has become the
strongest, but is thcatened by
disastrous inflation.
The government has de
nonced "unreasonable" price
and wage increases which it
says threaten national expan
sion. French coal miners broke
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc- Kleld Enterprises. Ine.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Apart from all other consid
erations, the deep psychologi
cal reason that we need some
one to love us is that we can
freely confess our faults and
our .defects only to someone
who acknowledges our love
ability. When people flee tyranny
and persecution, and set up
a community of their own,
they do not permit any
more freedom to their own
dissidents than they them
selves had been permitted
in tha past; with one excep
tion, tha religious settlers in
the New World ware just as
harsh and tyrannical toward
their heretics as the despots
they fled from. What most
people want is not freedom,
but orthodoxy of their own
sort.
The layman's idea of rig
orous proof is to say, "For
example , . ." and then pro
ceed to cite some case so ex
ceptional and dramatic that
it proves nothing of a general
nature. -
A woman who does not
know how to keep quiet
when she is in the. right
quickly forfeits her moral
advantage; as her lightness
degenerates into self-righteousness,
she loses her su
periority and permits the
man to counter-attack; for
silence on the part of the
woman is a much more ef
fective weapon of domestic
combat than haranguing.
Speaking of the' sexes,
secret lovers give themselves
away more by avoidance than
by engagement; as Bruyere ob
served a long time ago: "A
woman with eyes only for one
person, or with eyes always
averted from him, creates
exactly the same impression."
It is relatively easy for us
to delect when others are
bad from good motives, and
to be tolerant of them; what
is much harder is to detect
when we ourselves are good
from bad motives, and to
be intolerant of ourselves
for presenting this plausible
counterfeit of virtue.
V
The youth's quest for self
knowledge is so tormenting
and fruitless because self
knowledge cannot be obtained
alone, but only with another;
we cannot know ourselves un
til we have disclosed ourself
to another and see our reflec
tion in eyes that understand
. . . and forgive.
The moraliter who is so
scandalised by "obscenity"
everywhere would do well
to ponder the remark by a
true moralist, Thoreau, who
said: "You cannot receive a
shock unless you have an
electric affinity for that
which shocks you."
The world of politics today
is a full generation behind the
world of physics; the signifi
cant "race" of our time is
not the arms-race between na
tions but the "thought - race"
between our political practices
and our potentialities for des
truction, on both sides of the
curtain.
Walsh Reported in
Fair Condition Today
Former Jackson County
Sheriff Joseph D. Walsh was
reported In fair condition to
day at Providen:c hospital in
Portland following a five
hour brain operation Wednes
day afternoon.
The Information was re
ceived this morning from
Portland by the Jackson coun
ty sheriff's office. The In
formation said that Walsh was
recovering from the brain
hemorrhage suffered last
week. He was admitted to the
hospital May 10.
Walsh and his family now
live in Portland where he is
a salesman. -
Out of Power, Now
mbly: Tasks Seen
through De Gautile's wage
ceiling early in April with in
creases of more than 6 per
cent. Similar increases are
being demanded in other na
tionalized industries such as
gas, electricity and transport.
Wages in private industry
have jumped 10 per cent or
more.
From the left the govern
ment was being attacked as
anti-labor.
Matter of Fact
tc) New York Herald
LATER THAN WE THINK
Washington - According to
Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy and his Justice Depart
ment staff,
who know
more about
the matter
than any one
else, the trag
ic and horri
fying events
i n Birming
ham have a
lesson every
Aisnp one needs to
understand quite clearly.
The lesson is that in this ag
onizing area of race relations
in the United States it is later
than most of us think.
It is later than we think be
cause the extremists on both
sides of the question are near
er to taking over than most
people supposewThat is what
happened in Birmingham on
Saturday night and Sunday
morning.
WHITE extremists, enraged
by a moderate and civil
ized settlement of Birming
ham's segregation crisis, took
to bomb-throwing. Negro ex
tremists, incensed by this
criminal outrage aimed at the
Negro desegregation leaders.
responded by rioting. The
moderate settlement is now in
danger-which is just what was
wanted by the white exterm-
ists, and maybe by some of
the Negro extermists as well.
This outcome was all the
more saddening because the
settlement in Birmingham rep
resented such a success for
foresight and common sense.
The extreme explosiveness of
the Birmingham race problem
had been pin-pointed more
than 18 months ago, in a Jus
tice Department survey of po
tential trouble spots in the
South which was ordered by
Attorney General Kennedy
when he first took office.
Leaders of - Birmingham's
business community were al
ready thinking that something
had better be done about the
problem. Their impulse seems
to have been strengthened by
the warning from the Justice
Department to key persons in
the Birmingham white com
munity and to other persons
with leverage in the city like
the national executives of
chain department stores doing
business there, and of ' the
Scripps Howard and New-
house organizations which
own the city's papers.
'THE result was a citizens'
! movement to oust the ul
tra-segregationist city govern
ment controlled by Police
Commissioner Gene "Bull"
Connor. With the help of some
Negro votcs-for local leaders
of the Negro community had
already staged a registration
drive -the moderate, Albert
Boutwell, was elected to the
mayoralty.
Even during the mayoralty
campaign, the Rev. Martin
Luther King wished to inter
vene. He was only dissuaded
from doing so by Attorney
General Kennedy on the
ground that untimely inter
vention would adversely af
fect the election result. Short
ly after the voting, however,
he began to organize his first
demonstrations; and these
reached a crescendo ten days
ago.
In the resulting crisis, the
key episode was the quiet
meeting of more than two
score Birmingham business
leaders. By then, the chain de
partment stores were already
few.
Many of the factors contin-
ued favorable. France had
more than $4 billion in re
serves and production was
continuing to expand. But tha
steeply rising prices were tha
danger sign.
In the French assembly tha
government needs a strong
man to undertake what ara
certain to be unpleasant tasks.
Debre has filled the bill be
fore.
By Joseph Aliop
Tribune Syndicate
prepared to concede to Negro
demonstartors' demands for
desegregation at lunch coun
ters and other facilities; but
the department stores did not
wish to act alone.
a
TTENCE the meeting was
11 called. At the meeting,
more than forty key person
ages front the Birmingham
white community voted, with
only. one dissent, in favor ot
the settlement the Negroes
asked for.
Thus everyone who ordin
arily matters in white Bir
mingham had Concluded by
the middle of last week, no
doubt with regret in soma
cases, but with conviction too,
that Birmingham must aban
don its old, iron-fisted segre
gationist habits. "Bull" Con
nor and the others of his kid
ney were left in isolation,
with the ignorant and Uie em
bittered as their remaining
supporters. '
By the same token, every
one who ordinarily matters
in Negro Birmingham was
overjoyed by the settlement
that led the Rev. Martin Luth
er King to announce the end
of his demonstrations. It is not
generally understood, but Bir
mingham's local Negro leaders
at the outset had even opposed
Martin Luther King's inter
vention. They had been satis
fied by Mayor Boutwell's suc
cess at the polls; and they
would have preferred to wait
quietly for the reforms that
Mayor Boutwell promised.
HPHE King intervention was
clearly, in some degree,
the result of extremist pres
sure. The non-violent movement
against segregation, which
Martin Luther King leads, is
feeling increasing competition
from Negro groups more or
less openly favoring violence,
like the so-called Black Mus
lims. When the settlement was
announced, those who at
tacked it most promptly were
Police Commissioner "Bull"
Connor and the Washington
Black Muslim leader, Mal
colm X.
Martin Luther King was
wholly satisfied, however,
with the settlement that was
agreed upon in Birmingham.
Once again, he spoke out as a
moderate voice. The leaders of
the white community and the
Negro community were also
firmly agreed on 'the settle
ment. Whereupon the extremists
on the two sides took over in
Birmingham, as they may da
later in other places if tha
warning is not heeded.
Log Export Bill
Signed by Hatfield
Salcm-fllPD-Pcrmits will be
available for shipping surplus
logs abroad for sale under a
bill signed Wednesday by
Gov. Mark Hatfield.
It amends a 1961 law that
prohibited the sale abroad of
raw logs cut from state or
county lands. The intent was
to have Oregon mills do the
primary processing.
Since the law was passed,
however, some logs in soma
areas have been in over
supply. The bill grants an outright
exemption for Port Orford
white cedar, which is in de
mand abroad but not in
Oregon.
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