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I 7—THE MILL CITI ENTERPRISE THURSD AY. APRIL 3S. 1959 Better and Faster Growing Trees May Be Seen in Next 100 Years I ■ ï •y > 0 S i ■ ! ■ :-y' J 1 y- :<■ I»- ■ Ax X J ■V *1 "Dont Dont go to fast," fail," objects Margie, the chimp, as 7-year-old Robin McDonald reads a comic book at Madison Square pet show in New York City. Oregon’s next 100 years in forestry ry. Recreation space needs are multi will bring better and faster-growing plying also and watershed manage trees, bred from selected and even ment must look to “greater yield* of ■’registered” parents, and with spec useable water.” ial seed orchards providing superior Keys to advances are forest genet seed. ics, research, imaginative minds, and Lumber and plywood product« will education, the speakers said. be vastly improved by 2000. Slivery Leo A Isaac, retired forest service rough edges and unsightly knot de leader, said “artificial cross breeding fects will be gone. Various polishing of strains and species in order to and other treatments will beautify capture and develop in a single tree the products. the superior qualities of two or more A new approach to harvesting parent trees” will be the guide for bet methods is foreseen; wood engineer ter trees of the next century in Ore ing developments will be spectacular; gon. Better seeds for immediate use utilization of the “entire" tree-wood, must be obtained by selection of the bark, foliage, and chemical extract j best possible trees and from develop ives—will beccm-s a reality; and ments of seed orchards made up of dreamed of and undreamed of de- these superior trees, velopments will revolutionize forest Trees must be raised as a long ry operations in the next century. time crop in centuries to come and These are the forecasts of North there is no reason why they should west, national, and Canadian forest not be improved “just as fruit trees, i i crop', and vsytablea have been ry leaders who »poke recently at the Oregon State College Forestry improved uader management," Isaac Centenniaf Conference. Nearly 1,000 said in the opening talk. Robert W. Cowlin, director of the persons attended the two-day sessions. The predictions of better forests Pacific Northwest Forest and and better forest product« are not Range Experiment Station, describ without their “ifs" and "buts”, how ed present forest research programs ever, the speakers emphasized. New ! as "inadequate.” “A total of $60 million annually is problems are ahead also—particular ly problems of population that will spent by all forest research agencies require doubling the annual timber which amounts to only .2 to 1 percent growth by 2000 to meet the needs of of consumer expenditures for forest 100,000,000 more people in the ount- products. This compares to 1.3 per cent for all research and .4 of 1 per cent for agricultural research.” Forest research program should be increased 4-to-5 times, Cowlin em phasized. iPresident A. L. Strand of Oregon State College said forest re search in Oregon has "lagged 30 to 40 years behind agricultural re search.” Funds spent on forest re search today are a "mere pittance,” Strand insisted. “A greatly broadened program of basic research" is the most urgent need in control of both forest insects and diseases, V. J. Nordin, associate chief of forest biology for the Canad ian Department of Agriculture, and Philip C. Johnson, etnomologist for the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station agreed. Nordin said virus disease studies of trees are badly needed. Development of trees that will resist diseases un der all environments may be an “un realistic goal,” he said, but genetics and forest management procedures can be combined to greatly reduce disease losses. “Knots and knot holes wiH largely disappear in lumber of the future and boards will be sleek, uniform and clear, “ according to Robert W. Hess, director of research for Georgia-Pa cific Corporation. “The lowest grades will have been consumed for various fiber products.” Use of laminated beams will be extended to much or dinary home construction. « Oregon Ballots Give Support to Strong U.N. HOW MANY OF THESE WORK FOR YOU? (Chances are you have a great many morel) i Every new electric appliance you add helps make your housework lighter, your home more com fortable and convenient. Be sure you're making full use of today's biggest yalufi-your PP&L electric service. See your electric appliance dealer today I <Sz LIGHT COMPANY You Live Better,..Electrically $269.000.000! That’» th« hug« lum Pacific Pow«r has had to spend on n«w construction in th« past 10 years to m««t your fast growing service n««dsl A strengthened United Nations through which the U. S. can base re lations with foreign governments has received strong support from Oregon •‘Great Decisions” discussion groups. Opinion ballots from persons par ticipating in informal discussion groups in 22 Oregon counties were tabulated this week by the Oregon State College extension service. Dis cussion topic was “What Kind of World is Possible?” Many of those voting favored work ing toward some form of world gov ernment. Greater mutual understanding be tween U. S. and foreign peoples and institutions topped factors listed as vital to U. S. national interests in to day’s world. Continued healthy growth of the U. S. economy, continued access to raw materials and markets of the world, expansion of world trade, fas ter economic growth in the underde veloped world and closer economic, political and cultural relations with our industrialised, demeerattc allies also were rated as important policy considerations. Military power sufficent to discour age aggression received a third more votes than did military power suffi cient to wage any kind < f war. Voters ranked 22 U. N. policy pro posals now being debated in Washing ton, giving top priorities in the fol lowing order: Work for strengthening of the U. N. Provide the kind of U. S. assistance (where it is wanted) that will help colonial peoples build «table economic, political and social institutions. Base colonial policy on careful ap praisal of each situation. Expend U. S. assistance to econom ic growth of underdeveloped world. Spare no effort toward a workable arms control and irspection system. Subscribe to The THE ENTERPRISE The Canyon's Own Newspaper $3 a Year
