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THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 1946
for lots with quite a number of
sales of that nature lately.
COUNTY TAX COLLECTION
81.1 PER CENT
HILLSBORO — Washington
county tax collection on the
1946-47 roll was $1,461.972.40 or
81.1 per cent of the total levy
on November 15.
This total is $395,042.16 more
than for a similar period last year
although the percentage is slight­
ly lower. A total of 82.22 per
cent had been collected on the
1946-46 roll on the first quarter
deadline date in mid-November
for payment of taxes to receive a
three per cent discount.
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The Hon. Chapin Collins breezed
into my boom-pond shack the
other day, on a visiting round
with tilicuins in his old home
country. Chapin is a country boy
(Grays Harbor) who made good
in Bagdad-on-the-Potomac—not as
a bureaucrat or politico, hasten
to day, but as Managing Director
of American Forest Products In­
dustries, Inc. Under his easy-
does-it direction the AFPI has
produced rich benefits out of co­
operative effort of the forest
products industries, the associa­
tion of publishers, state forestry
departments and farm ¡organiza­
tions—benefits for the American
public as well as for the groups
named.
One major job to which Chape
is yet giving his blood, sweat and
tears goes under the heading of
“More Trees for America.” Its
goal is more tree growing on
farm woodlands. Publishers As­
sociations are mightily interest­
ed. It promises more paper “good
newsprint” to them.
Another Collins chore is ex­
tension of the “Keep Green” pro­
grams, originated in Washington
and Oregon in 1940, to other
states, particularly on unprotected
forest lands in the south. Nine­
teen states now have “Keep
Green” programs of one degree or
another.
The nation-wide tree farm pro­
gram is also Chape’s business.
With Corydon Wagner and Col.
W. B. Greely as his high com­
mand he never worries about hav­
ing jobs on deck and high-powered
working orders.
Country Editor . . .
Chapin Collins is a name well
known in the two Pocific North­
west corner states as the pub­
lisher of the Montesano Vidette.
This weekly, which has won na­
tional attention, yet carries a
front-page column by its pub­
lisher and is edited by Karl Ker-
stetter. Chape and Karl know
their forestry through both educa­
tion and experience. Back in the
old days they frequently got into
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The Cozy
the forest situation of Grays Har­
bor County up to their ears.
In 1941 the Weyerhauser Tim­
ber company developed a program
for intensive forest management
and protection on the Clemons
area in Grays Harbor county. The
country editors in calked boots
proposed that it be called a “tree
farm” project. It w'as done. And
so a national program of indus­
trial forestry was initiated under
that name.
Itis indeed a fine
thing that Chapin Collins has been
able to keep right on working at
the promotion of tree farms since
1941, except for nine months in
the army (where he succeeded in
remaining a private and getting
a rest from responsibility).
Chape’s last word as he left by
boom-pond shack was, “Well, wish
I could stay longer, but I gotta
go make a speech.”
I’m afraid Washington, D.C.,
has got him.
A Big Forestry Year .. .
Thé Hon. Chape was off to talk
at the Western Forestry Confer­
ence in Portland. He has been at
so many conferences this year
that he even walks around half
the time with his face leaning on
his hand and wearing a bored ex­
pression.
The forestry conferences of this
year anyhow are just about the
best ever heard of. The Washing­
ton State and Western forestry
meetings were full of cheer for
anybody who has the future of
ouu timberlands close to his
heart. The TAPPI meeting last
fall in Detroit had the same in­
spiration, particularly in the ad­
dress of President Ruben B.
Robertson of the American Pa­
per & Pulp association. There
were Chapin’s AFPI meetings
with periodical publishers and
with newspaper groups, the state
foresters’ meeting in Maine, and
industrial forestry meeting at
Higgins Lake, Michigan, the
American Forestry Congress at
Washington, last summer’s Pacific
Logging Congress at Banff, and
state and’ local meetings beyond
count.
In 1946 the American Forest
Appraisal project was completed.
Its Kirkland report on the Doug­
las Fir Region revealed facts of
great promise for our forest fu-
tude here. There has been one
announcement after another of
new steps forward in industrial
forestry-new products from wood
that used to be burned as saw-
mill leftovers, “re-logging” in the
woods to utilize what used to be
logging leftovers, and any num­
ber of other good things for trees.
Our country editor will return
to Bagdad-on-the-Potomac with a
big bag of prime stories for na­
tional consumption—stories to in­
spire land-owners everywhere to
grow “more trees for America.”
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Entered as second class mail
matter, August 4, 1922, at the
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under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Events in
WILSON RIVER PEOPLE
ORGANIZE COMMUNITY CLUB
TILLAMOOK—Feeling the need
of a community club, a number
of residents of the Wilson river
district organized recently a club
which will protect and look after
the interests of those who live
in an area eight and one-half
miles up Wilson river.
New
homes are being built each year
and gradually there has developed
a real community spirit among the
people there. At one of their meet-
ings, they voted to name the
district “Will-Vista.”
BETTER SERVICE DEMAND
MADE AT RATE HEARING
FOREST GROVE—Sharp de-
mands for a bona fide guarantee
of greatly improved service or
cancellation of franchise rights
and assignment of large segments
of the territory now served by
West Coast Telephone company to
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company featured the public hear­
ing opened this week by State
Public Utilities Commissioner
George Flagg in Portland on the
request of West Coast Telephone
company for emergency rate in­
creases , and extension of toll
charges amounting to $205,000
for its three districts in Oregon.
P„Us4
COUNTY RECEIVES
FUNDS FOR ROADS
M’MINNVILLE — More tax
money from the state flowed into
the Yamhill county treasury this
week when Cpunty Treasurer Par­
rett received a warrant of $30,-
816.60 from the state treasurer.
This is the amount due Yamhill
county at this time as its por­
tion of accrued states gas tax
and vehicle license funds.
In July the county received $20,-
544.40 from the same funds, mak­
ing a total of $51,361 received for
the year. The state paid out
$2,000,000 in gas and license
funds to all counties of the state
during 1946.
NO NOTICEABLE- DECLINE
SHOWN IN REAI ESTATE
WILLAMINA—Although sales
of real estate in Portland are re­
ported to have declined 15 per
cent in number and 30 per cent
in total valuation during the past
three months, no such noticeable
decline has taken, place here ac­
cording to several local realtors.
There has been a brisk demand
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