Society Told Arrangements Made
For Neighboring County's Museum
The usual good attendance en.
•oyed the interesting meeting of
the Columbia County Historical
Society in the Scappoose Congre
gational church Tutsday, Decem
ber 8. with a reliving of pioneer
Christmas being the theme of the
program. Also, many relics of old
times were brought, which were
interesting to all.
The session opened at 1:10 p.
in. and a highlight of the program
was the appaarance of th? Scap
poose high school chorus with
their teacher.
Guest speaker of the afternoon
■ as Mrs. Lillian Kumm, caretaker
of th? Tillamook county museum,
who told of their many years of
effort to get their museum started
and developed to the present con
dition. Th.v began 18 years ago,
when they were given one room
of the old Tillamook courthouse
for exhibit space, which they soon
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outgrew.
Now they have the whole build
ing filled with exhibits. Expenses
are shared by the county and
city.
Incidental expenses are
partly met by sale of post cards,
etc. It began with the county
pioneers, but now has been
turned over to the county with
a museum committee consisting
of the county judge, school super
intendent. mayor of the City of
Tillamook, a business man. and a
member of the V.F.W., making
six in all. There is a small mil
lage tax for upkeep, also. This
year they had 25,000 visitors, over
6000 of these being in August.
The passing of two pioneers was
noted, one being Andrew Parker
of Vernonia, who died last month,
and the other being George Me-
Bride, son of Thomas McBride.
who passed away about the same
time.
The McBride school of
St. Helens was named for this
family.
The next meeting of the Society
will be held in St. Helens, with
place and date to be decided
later and depending on the
weather. Anyone interested
enough to attend will find the
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their support will also aid in the
work of the society.
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VERNONIA,
ORE. THURSDAY. DEC. 24. 1953
Representing Crown Zellerbach
corporation yesterday at a tree
growers forum at Seattle was
Bob Lindsay, forester for Colum
bia Tree farm, where ten of the
top ranking tree growers and
specialists discussed how to pro
duce and sell more products from
the 21 million acres of small
forest holdings in the western
states.
Fifty per cent of the private
timber in Oregon and Washington
is owned by small holders. The
forum was one of th > highlights
of the three-day 44th annual
Western Forestry conference.
Lindsay emphasizer. that theo
ries on second-growth manage
ment must be put into practice
to test their value. "A thinning
operation presents many new
problems: the timber harvested is
less important and of less value
than the trees left; a pixir log
ging job may result in complete
loss of growing stock at an early
age; planning of landings and
skidroads attains new importance;
complete utilization is the keynote
to success of the operation.”
He also pointed out that "fre
quent light cuts, commencing at
an early age, is the solution to
many harvesting problems. Fre-
quent cuts correct errors in jud^
ment of the market.
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damage, windthrow and insect ar
tack can be salvaged without
loss, excessive damage to road,
and landings during the wet »ea
son can be avoided. Equipment
used must be light, small and
mobile.”
Sport Fish Rules
Hearing Topic
Oregon sport fishing regulation .
for 1954 will be tentatively set
following a public hearing Fn
day, January 8. 1954, in the game
commission's Portland office at
S \V 17th and Aid i
The hearing will begin at lit
a m. and winter and summer regu
lations for all game fish will b.*
covered. Persons or groups hav
ing suggestions regarding the ten
tative regulations should submit
them to the commission in writ
ten form.
Following a two-week interval,
a second public hearing will b-
held by the commission January
22 to set the final regulations for
1954.
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Tree Men Talk More Production
National Forest Sales
Washington lumber. Good news
There is good news in the lat for Los Angeles'
est returns to Oregon and Wash- I Big Job Coming
The experts are now talking
ington counties from national
forest rentals and timber sales, j about a 1960 U.S. population of
They brought $9.463,998 in the J 180.276,000—-an increase of 28.-
fiscal year ending June 30. 1953. 220,000 over 1950. In the most
to help pay for schools and coun conservative view the d.mands
ty roads in the two states. This of building construction on the
was a fourth of the total returns , forests and mills are bound to
of $37.855.991. The other three keep growing. The consumption
quarters, or $28.391,993. was turn of all forest products should also
increase year by year. The con
ed over to the U. S. Treasury.
This productive utilization of tributions of the national forests
public domain timber means even to the national economy will ex
more, in terms of wages, taxes, pand likewise.
And so the counties with the
dividends, traffic revenue, sales
of manufactured suppltes and • fortune to contain national for
farm produce, and payments for ests will ben-’fit from timber sales
interest, insurance and profes each year indefinitely, under sus
sional services. The indirect ec tained yield stanards. Each sale
will continue to mean business
onomic creativity of national for
est timber conversion is also a for the logging contractor, wages
giant force. Woods wage earners, for loggers, truck drivers and
for example, marry, make homes mill m:n within the county of
and start families. More sales in the sale, a vast variety of taxes
the stores, more work for school all down the production line—
teachers, are obvious results. So and at last in the markets, new
new schools and stores must be homes, churches, schools, business
structures, farm buildings and
built, new roads are required.
Thus Forest Service timber sales other construction.
What more could Unci? Sam's
contribute to community progress.
This effect was the original simple trees be made to do for the people?
purpose of the formation of the
forest reserves that are the na
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tional forests of today. To sup
port local business, to provide jobs I
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for local people, to add to com
munity growth and prosperity,
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has been the official U.S. forest
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policy for 50 years and more.
Year by year it proves its worth.
The Markets
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The national benefits from na
tional forest timber sales are im
measurably greater, too, than th?
dollar amounts of stumpage re- j
turns that accrue to the U. S. i
Treasury in Washington, D.C.
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Lane County, Oregon, with $1,-
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California — as in other nation
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A Day full of Happiness
is our
Christmas message to you
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