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.
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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. It has a (ifi-horsepower air
craft engine which hurls a blast of
air out its bottom and through
side louvers.
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