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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1959)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Friday. August 14, Log Industry Compared By Filipino Timber Boss By NORM CARDOZA The island of Mindanao in the Philippines has something in com mon with Klamath County. Logging is a principal occupa tion there and forestry is an up and coming business. The industry is so important to the island economy that the Philip pine government has set up a forestry school of its own at the University of the Philippines with U.S. assistance. It also sends some of its brightest forestry pros pects abroad to study foreign methods. One is Isodoro B. Siapno, 'for est management supervisor on Mindanao, the largest, most pro ductive island of the archipelago. He left Klamath Falls Thursday for San Francisco, a ship and a trip home after a year of study and travel in the United Mates. Siapno, 37, scooted through for- Police Ban Aide From School LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) -School Board President Everett Tucker Jr. didn't get to visit Hall High School Thursday. He left his Identification card at home and police wouldn't let him through. Tucker said officers told him there were no exceptions to the no-card-no-admittance rule. Identification cards werp'ksneri to students and faculty members to allow them to pass through police lines set up around the schools to prevent disorder during integration of two high schools Stranded Youth Leaves Silo COLDWATER, Mich. fAP) - Police and firemen rushed to a tall silo here. A boy, about 10, was on top. Employes said' the youngster had climbed up, apparently be came panic-stricken and couldn't get down. Officers climbed up. The boy was gone. He'd climbed down the other side. ; RED FLAG WASHINGTON (AP)-Russia's hammer and sickle flag will be flying all over Washington next month during Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit, if normal pro cedure is followed. A State Department source said it is cus tomary to display hundreds of flags of the country of an official State visitor. The flags are fes tooned along parade routes. Each state visit costs from $2,000 to $3,000 for flags. TEST FLIGHT ; CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A camera-carrying Thor missile Itreaked over the Atlantic on a J, 700-mile test flight today. The 16 millimeter movie camera rode in a data capsule tucked in the nose cone. It was positioned to photo graph the separation of the cone from the main body of the rocket and to picture the earth as the cone sped away, to a height of 300 miles. ests in O'cgor. and Washington to compars forestry methods with others in the VS. and in his own country- Many techniques wed here were old stuff to Siaonc, such as selec tive cutting ,-inrt it sect control. But the similarity between forest management here and there ends early and abruptly. One of the most striking differ ences is that Philippine foresters don't have to worry about fires. Forests there are too green, the weather and humidity too damp to encourage fire. And the staple tree in the na tion's 38 million acres of forest is mahogany, both of soft and hard variety. Pine and fir just don't exist. ' Mahogany grows big. heavy and thick on the islands. Logging out fits, big and small, go after it tooth and tong. Most of the larger firms, many of them financed with foreign capital, including quite a bit from the U.S., use ultra-modern methods. But dozens of small operators, including "gypos" as they are known here, log small plots with hard 'work and ex-U.S.' "six by six" trucks brought to the islands during the war. They yard, load and haul the logs wun trucKpower, using a front-mounted winch extensively. The forests there also 'are cap able of producing all sorts of sec ondary products. Rubber trees, though not native to the islands, are thick on big plantations owned by U.S. firms. Other big forest crops are ban anas, coffee and coconuts. Prob ably, forest lands there are ideally suited to other important tree crops. But Siapno is concentrating on preserving for posterity the huge mahogany forests. The wood is the islands' principal export. It goes to the U.S., Europe, the Far East and elsewhere in the world He faces a big problem. Big property owners have found a way to use ' homestead laws to superb advantage. Islanders are allowed by law to carve for themselves 16 acres of farmland from the for est. They do by the thousands- then sell to big landowners who become bigger landowners. The forest is receding. It's something like the situation that faced the U.S. more than 50 years ago when Western forest lands were opened up to home steaders. Siapno would like to see legisla tion passed that would curb un scrupulous hdmesteading. "But," he says, "the islands are run by politicians who want votes. They get them from homesteaders. Siapno's trip was financed jointly by the U.S. government, the Philippine government and the International Cooperation Administration. He attended forestry classes at Syracuse University for nearly a year and has only to complete a thesis to obtain a master's degree in forestry. He is anxious to 'return to see his school-teacher wife and three children, who live in Zamboanga, Mindanao. . 'jvi-KM ii I all Is.. 31 'Ht v, .r mm ii A PHILIPPINE FORESTER. Isodoro B. Siapno, left, got a lot of pointers from Darrall Frewing, ranger of the Klamath District, Rogue River National Forest, this week. Siapne Is on four of forests throughout the nation after studying forestry for a year af Syracuse University, New York. He began a trip home Thursday. Labor Official Gives Views Of Work By Rackets Group JOHNS-MANVILLE TRANSITE BUILDING SEWER PIPE kff;TT7T3iT7M& it i O Engineered to prevent root-clogging O Designed for lasting Trouble-free Service CHECK THESE ADVANTAGES: if Corrosion-Resistanf ir Easy to Handle ir Easily Connected to other Pipes if A Full Line of Fittings EASY TO ASSEMBLE WITH THE NEW " RING-TITE COUPLING 1. Lubricate by hand 2. Leek tight by hand SOUTH SIXTH STREET STEEL 2S21 So. 6th Ph. TU 4-33S3 United States Put On Spot By Minister Meet Reports UNITED NATIONS. N Y. (AP) The United States has been put on the spot in the United Nations by reports that the Big Four foreign ministers have agreed the next committee to negotiate on disarmament should be divided equally between Communist and Western Nations. Why, a number of members ask, has the United States agreed to East-West parity afler vigor ously opposing Soviet demands for it for several years? Repercussions in the U.N. fol lowed word from Geneva and Paris that the foreign ministers of the , United .States. Britain. France and the Soviet Union had agreed to set up a lunation group lo resume disarmament negotia tions deadlocked since 1957. The proposed group would have the Western Big Three plus Italy and Canada on one side, and the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslo vakia, Romania and Albania on the other. , . U.S. and British officials insist no final decision has been reached on makeup of the group. Reliable sources say the Soviet Union at Geneva renewed its de mand for parity and that the British readily agreed. They say the .United States, despite some misgivings, was persuaded to go along. The U.N.' Disarmament Com mission has been unable to do anything for two years, since the major Western powers rejected a Soviet demand for parity and the 12-nation commission was expand ed to include all 82 U.N. mem bers. Latin American governments and India and others of the Asian African .group are- disturbed by the move to confine the disarma ment negotiations to the two major blocs. - There is also widespread specu lation among the smaller nations that the Big Four are trying lo bypass the United Nations. Both the United States and Britain deny this. EDITOR'S NOTE: A lparl.np la bor official sives his view of the Stnate Rackets Committee's work in the following disoatch. The au thor. Al Hayes, is president of the International Assn. of Machin ists, vice oresident of the API. C 10. and chairman of the AFL-C10 lommmee on Mhical Practices. By AL HAYES Written for UPI WASHINGTON 1 UPI - Organ ized labor has learned a sreal deal from the McClellan commit tee We have learned the extent of wrongdoing in a few labor organ izations. We have learned how Ihp dis closures by a congressional com mittee can be distorted out of all proportion, how thev can be mis used to influence public opinion, to create a climate and to gen erate a hysteria for vindictive and punitive legislation. Mast union members feel 'that congressional investigating com mittees should properly develop information necessary to the leg islative process. However, we do not believe they should be used to foster more and more govern ment control over the free insti tutions of our society. To the extent that the McClel lan investigation results in unfair, unjust and unnecessary covern- mental interference in the affairs of labor, subsequent investiga tions by other congressional com mittees in years to come may bring similar controls to other in stitutions. The McClellan committee has disclosed some corruption and im proper practices in the labor movement. What's more, as a re sult of action taken by the AFL CIO, the guilty in labor have been penalized and wrongdoing in the labor movement has been made more difficult. The McClellan committee also uncovered a good deal of wrong doing by management, by law yers and by labor relations con sultants. However, the reporting of this phase of the committee's hearings has been more re strained and the indignation of the editorial writers, columnists and commentators more cautious and conservative. I know of nothing that has been done by management or by the lawyers In correct the abuses un covered. Notwithstanding this lack of action, there is no outcry for legislation to reform manage ment. One of the good results of the McClellan committee has been the alerting of rank and file un ion members to their responsibil ities to keep their union clean and to remove those who are more devoted to personal gain than they are to the cause of trade unionism. . The committee's work, I hope. has also alerted law enforcement agencies to the need for greater diligence in enforcing laws al' ready on the statute books. Pilot Killed In Copter Crash NEW YORK (AP)-A Texas pi lot was fatally injured Thursday when his Army helicopter hit the lop of an apartment building on Governor's Island while coming in for a landing. The pilot, Warrant Officer Les ter G. Bundrick, 30, Henderson, Tex., died at an Army hospital. SAVE UP TO 80 OK RUG CLEANING DO-iT-rnuesELF uo cleaning FOR RENT. A & B UK E. Hln TO 44IU k : i I -to! 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