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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THREE Thinning Pays (Continued (ram Page t) for Western Pine Association, Tree farm sponsor in the region, and the land was formally certified that year in the industry-operated Tree Form program to grow tim ber as a crop on privately owned, taxpaying forest lands. The pro gram aids and encourages land owners to manage their timber for high production. Collins' Ear-Seven - Bar Tree Farm lies at the 4.000-foot level in the Ochoco Mountains adjacent to Ochoco National Forest. "John is being careful to do his thinning in the late fall months, when the danger of insects get ting into the down trees and start ing an epidemic is past," said Thomas. "For the past (our or five years he has been selectively harvesting residual mature trees in his older stands and salvaging diseased and defective timber. He is doing all of his own logging,- and he makes a point of protecting his young growing stock from damage." Collins serves as a commissioner of Wheeler County and is active on the county's forestry commit tee. He has urged that an experi mental forest be established to study pine management and, par ticularly, the value of thinning stagnated thickets on watershed lands to increase streamflow. Thickets on watersheds, he feels, are threatening eastern Oregon's lifegivmg supply of irrigation wa ter. Thomas had praise for the efforts which Collins is making to improve his timber stands. "John is constantly working to improve his timber stock in the same way that he uses sound prin ciples to improve his cattlehcrd," he said. Collins believes that good forest management today will also pro vide lasting benefits for his chil dren and theirs. "Leaving a good stand of trees is one of the finest monuments a man can ask for," he observes. Loan Rate Boost Seen ANN ARDOR (UPD Americans in the next generation will be bor rowing more than twice as much money as this one does, according to a University of Michigan ex pert. Consumer credit, which now runs something over 45 billion dol lars, will be at least 80 billion dollars and probably more than 100 billion dollars by 1!W0, says Associate Prof. Thomas G. Gies. former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Gies says four factors will con tribute to the increase: population growth to approximately 70 mil lion families; a rapid increase in the proportion of young families who use credit most; a step-up in the trend toward suburban living and home-owning; and rising in come bringing more families into the good credit-risk category. THE COVER No ' photographer can resist the tempt ing mixture of light and shadow offered by major construc tion, and Herald and N e w s photographer Wes Guderian is no exception. This shot was taken just under the overpass on the newly opened West side Bypass where it soars over California Avenue. Less Fish For The Expert, More For Weekend Anglers Is California's New Plan SACRAMF.XTO U'PI) Califor nia's Fish and Game Commission is quietly inaugurating a new con cept of fishing in the state: Less fish for the expert and more for the weekend angler. This became certain with the announcement by the commission that it intends to set a general statewide 10-fish limit for 1960's trout season.. Commissioners also gave a hint of things to enmc with this state ment: "A year around open season for trout was proposed statewide with a bag limit ol 10 fish during the summer and five fish during the winter, but was laid over for one year." During the one year period, the commission asked the Fish and Game Department to study the proposal. In a year, the Depart ment will submit a recommenda tion. These actions result directly from an attempt by Director Wil liam E. Warne to simplify the state's fishing regulations. He an nounced in October that the agency had been trying to cut the red tape out of fishing. Warne recommended that the commission repeal outright 39 sec tions of the state regulations which, he said, are "not needed to protect our inland and ocean fish re sources." It was on Warne's recommenda tion that the 10-fish statewide limit was proposed in the commission determinations for 1960: The deter minations are subject to change at the commission's December 3 meeting in Sacramento. But the quiet revolution goes back further than that. It also was proposed last year but the commission at that time succumbed to urging of sports groups and retained the 15-fish lim it in 10 Northern California coun ties. Those 10 counties were an nounced as areas of "natural prop agation," where the trout breed nalurally and don't need any help from the Fish and Game Depart ment. There is none, or very little, planting in the areas. Apparently commissioners are operating on the idea that Call fornia's fish resource should be more widely spread. It's generally been accepted that raising a fishing limit does very little good to the run-of-the-mill fisherman. It's good news for the expert, though. Experts say that John Doe fish erman rarely catches his limit anyway, so raising the limit does not help him catch more fish. But the expert fisherman, who generally always catches the lim it, will get permission to get more in the creel. Otherwise, the commission's "de terminations" contained only one major surprise repeal of the reg ulation requiring north coast fish ermen to paint the sides of their salmon. ... This regulation was recommend ed on a "let's see if it works" basis by Scth Gordon when he was director of the department. V that time there was doubt. To put it bluntly, the regulation imply did not work. Said one spokesman for the de partment: "The fishermen got Mint almost everywhere but on ihe fish. It wouldn't stay there." Gordon announced his decision lor the regulation without even having it tested. About a week :ifter the announcement was orig inally made, the department began to test the plan in its Nimbus Hatchery. Spcarfishermen got a break from he- commission. . , , ,,. Commissioners announced plans to establish experimental undcrwa ter spearfishing areas in the main fork, of the Kings River between Bailey Bridge and the point where (he Garnet Dike Mine Road leaves the river and in the Squaw Creek rm of Shasta Lake. But the skindivers will be lim ited in their catch. They will be allowed to stab only carp, squaw fish, suckers and hardhead. The season will last from August 1 to October 31. 1 YS 1 MY BUDDY Humane worker Joyce Marshal cuddles a snow leopard in London. The Hi malayan cat was on hi way to U.S. zoo. Horse Fed On Old Law SEATTLE (UPD Jeff Perry was a bit taken aback when Fred K. Polinder, a Lynden, Wash., dairy man, reined up his Clydesdale in front of Perry's motel and de manded free oats for his horse. Before Perry could protest, Po linder, who had previously regis tered at the motel, produced the yellowed copy of a cily ordinance which said an "innkeeper" was required to supply oats to horses in his keeping. Perry's mouth was still open when Deputy Sheriff Walter R. Powell appeared on the scene, as tride a palomino quarterhorse. The butt of a pistol protruded menac ingly from Powell's holster. 'I'm here in behalf of neglected horseflesh," said the deputy. Barney, the Clydesdale, got u pailful of oats from Perry a few minutes later when the motel keeper discovered the whole thing was a gag to advertise a milk fund ball. Barney was hitched to an old-fashioned milk wagon. MORE HOME BUYERS CHICAGO (UPD - More fam ilies plan to buy a house this year than in either 1938 or 1937, accord ing to the United Stales Savings and Loan League. It cited a re cent Federal Reserve Board study which showed that roughly 9.3 per cent of spending units surveyed planned the purchase of a home this year, compared with 7.5 per cent m J95 and B.7. per . cent in 1957. Plug-In Automobile May Be Along In Near Future LOS ANGELES (UPD A car that uses no fuel but must be plugged into an electric outlet each night for recharging. . . . Another car that zips from zero to 00 miles per hour in five seconds with a kerosene-burning engine. . . . An "air car" that skims over land and water with equal ease and no danger of crashing. Crazy dreams? By no means. They're all ideas that manufactur ers are testing even now to revolu tionise private transportation. Walt Woron, editor of Motor Trend magazine, has surveyed the field and come up with a time table on when these vehicles may be ready for the public. The first one is an electric car an idea which goes back to grandpa's day. It got short-cir cuited early in life by the greater range of the gasoline engine which does not have to go home to roost beside its battery charger at night. The Charles Motor Corp., of San Diego, plans to have its Charles Townabout, a full-sized car pow ered by four 12-volt batteries, on the market within a year. It has a light-weight, moulded glass-resin body. Hugh Waldman of the Charles outfit says the car is not intended to replace the gasoline auto. It's what its name "Townabout" im pliesa vehicle for getting around in the city. As Waldman sees it, conditions which contributed to the demise of the electric car years apo cheap gasoline and high-cost electricity now liave been re versed. . The "Townabout" resembles a big Karmann-Gliia, the Volks wagen with the sporty body. II has an RO-mile range, a top speed of SO miles an hour and accelera tion comparable to a Volkswagen. It has two direct-current motors on the rear axles and is supposed to require far less mechanical up keep. It is priced, to start with, at $2,895, complete with charger and built-in cord for plugging into regular 110-volt outlet. It'll take a little longer, five to 10 years, to get a turbine-driven auto, although major manufactur ers have been working with them off and on for years. Engineers list many advantages over the piston engine, the main one being that a turbine which produces the same horsepower available in today's big piston engines weighs half as much. Turbines can be made to oper ate on almost any combustible fuel and have only one-fifth as many parts. They have terrific acceler ation, a standard 160-horsepower job being able to dust off a piston engine nearly twice as powerful. Ford is testing turbines in a Thunderbird and a truck. The 1960 T-bird would accommodate Ford's new 704 turbine engine, and a few will be so outfitted, but only for road testing. General Motors and Chrysler also are testing turbines for passenger cars. The air-car, or more properly "ground proximity vehicle," prob ably will take longer than 10 years before being marketed wide ly, although some experts think it may make a surprising spurt. The vehicle is not an airplane or helicopter. It ride9 on a cushion of air but is designed to go no more than a foot off the ground, lerhaps only inches. It will not hoo fences or trees. Is main advantage is that it can skim over both land and wa ter, needing no roads. Models cur rently under development for mil itary and research purposes would present a problem on city streets they'd blow pebbles, old cigarette butts and other debris on innocent bystanders. Chrysler is testing an aerial jeep for the military. It is alnjut 23 feet long, 10 feet wide and is driven ly a 230 horsepower engine that spins two 8.5 foot fans located horizontally fore and aft. It caa do 50 miles an hour. Curtiss-Wright is working on an air-car that looks like a flying saucer. 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