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16 A TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2D. 1063 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Congress Considers Measure To Update Public Land Laws WASHINGTON (CO) - Con- gre,ss presently is considering a measure designed to bring up to c ate public land laws of horse and buggy vintage. There are now 50 major laws on the statute books relative to the management of 770,796,843 acres of federal land holdings in the United States. This is 33.9 per cent of the 11 Western states and Alaska. John A. Carver Jr., Assistant Secretary of Interior for Public Land Management, has called many of the public land laws on the statute books "either dead letters, or they ought to be." At the same time he has said rapidly changing conditions in this country have brought about "gaps" in present public land statutes which call for new legislation from Congress. The need for public land re form is considered to be both immediate and urgent by the Interior Department because of the rapidly increasing pressures on public land resulting from the population explosion now going on in the Western states and because of increasing com petition among conflicting users of public land. Commercial users and conservationist groups, which often held div ergent views on public land pro grams, strongly back public land reform. Public Land Commission The House Public Lands Sub committee is currently in the process of "marking up" or re vising legislation to establish a 19 - members Public Land Law Review Commission to study existing public land laws and procedures and to make recommendations on moderni zing and improving them. Such legislation has been in troduced by Chairman Wayne N. As p i n a 1 1, D-Colo., of the House Interior and Insular Af fairs Committee and by Reps. Walter S. Baring, D-Nev., John H. Kyi, R-Iowa, and Morris K. 1 Udall, D-Ariz. ! The commission proposal is patterned after the 15-membcr Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission authorized in 1938 by Congress to make an inventory of the nation's out-1 door recreation resources and needs and to make recommend-1 ations for meeting such needs in the foreseeable future. The report filed by ORRRC in 1S61 led to the establishment of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in the Interior Department in 19G2 and to the Administration proposal now before Congress to establish a land conservation fund to pay for new public rec reation areas and facilities. Because public land laws are so complex, sponsors of the public land law review coinmis sion proposals believe the com mission approach would provide , the best method of identifying the problems and recommending statutory solutions to them. i Hearings on the proposals were held by the House Public Lands Subcommittee on Sept. 9-10 and on Oct. 3-4. Most Pressing Needs These hearings identified areas where there is the most pressing need for new legisla-; lion. The natural growth of many communities in the South west is being hampered because the communities are entirely surrounded by federal land hold ings. Hep. Udall said, "a ra-, tional workable means of get-1 ting land into state ownership and private ownership" must be found to meet the needs "in these heavily populated areas that are gruwing so fast." Bernard L. Orell, chairman of the committee on forest man agement of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who was a member of the OHHHC Commission, strongly backed up suggestions of the Interior and Agriculture Departments that some solution must be found to "checkerboarded" land, where federal, state and private holdings are intermingled in many Western and Southern states. Other problems include: The trend toward separating surface rights from subsurface rights on public lands: Difficulties relative to obtain ing casements and rights-of-way across federally - held land: The increasing use of the pub lic domain for recreation and the inability of the Bureau of Land Management to cope with the problem because of lack of statutory authority to provide recreation and sanitary facili ties on the public domain: Lack of a definite public pol icy on the type of federal lands to retain in federal ownership ; the objectives of the bills to and the type to transfer to state I establish the so called "PLLRC" or private ownership. I Commission. Daniel A. Poole, There was widespread support ' director of conservation of the expressed in the hearings for I Wildlife Management Institute, summed up the views of con servationist and commercial users alike when he stated: "Revision of the public land laws . . . would be a complex and time consuming under taking. But such revision is ab solutely necessary . . . The pres ent patchwork of outmoded and vague laws are a confusion and frustration ... to the Congress, to the public and to the admin istering agencies. (Copyright 1963, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.) Ashlander Injured As Car Hits Pole 1 ASHLAND Gary Clinton .Way at 11:20 p.m. when he ap- Winner, 18, of 510 Wimer St., was injured late Sunday night when his car struck a steel light pole in Lithia Park. Ashland police said Winner parently lost control of his car at the intersection with Nutley St. and skidded into the pole. Winner was taken by ambu lance to Ashland Community was southbound on Winburn ' Hospital for treatment. HOMICIDE PROBED PORTLAND (UPI) - Polica said Monday they were investi gating the possibility of homi? cide in the death of John Pihu lake, 37, Portland, whose body was found in his parked car Sat urday. Gina Lollobrigida Has Tonsilities POOLE QUAY. 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