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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1962 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE THREE District Nurses Hear Bureau of Land Management Revises Family Finance Topic, Proposed Petrified Wood Withdrawals Plan Future Projects District 20 of Oregon Nurses association held its first meeting of the fall season Monday evening in the Presbyterian Nursing home at Ontario. Guest speaker was Mrs. Edna Mae Wimsatt, county home ex tension agent, whose topic was “Family Finance.” Plans were made for sending delegates to the ONA convention to be held Oct. 11-13 in Salem. According to Mary Ci aft, public terials by self-seeking organiza relations chairman, district 20 is tions or individuals. It would also undertaking several projects this prevent the indiscriminate exca coming year. Among them is to vation of such deposits. sponsor a survey to tape chil- ik ter an extensiye survey of petrified wood deposits in Malheur county, the Bureau of Land Management has revised a proposal to withdraw certain public lands from the location of petrified wood mining claims. Russell E. Getty, BLM director for Oregon and Washing ton, said that mining engineers have examined public lands in southeastern Oregon that*--------------------------------------- were to be set aside for public lie for recreation enjoyment. It use. would prevent the bottling-up of "The report of the mining petrified wood deposits and other engineers indicates that about non-metallic, semi - precious ma two-thirds of the public lands in volved do not contain significant enough deposits of petrfied wood to warrant withdrawal action,” said the state director. “The re mainder of the lands will be re tained in the proposed withdraw al.” Acreage Reduced to 6000 In Malheur county about 19,000 acres were included in the origin ally proposed withdrawal. Based on its current survey of the area, BLM has reduced this to about 6000 acres. Public lands in the Disaster Peak and Grassy Mountain areas are still under consideration for withdrawal. The proposed with drawal of public lands in the Grave Yard Point. Alkali Springs and Hope Butte areas has been canceled. Rock hunting and collecting is an important recreation activity on BLM lands in many parts of eastern Oregon. Thousands of people visit the areas every year looking for petrified wood and other non-metallic, semi-precious minerals. In recent years some persons and organizations have locatedi mining claims on specific deposits of such materials to commercially exploit the deposits or to bar the public from collecting in these areas. Rock Hounds Free io Collect For this reason BLM proposed j last fall to withdraw significant j deposits of petrified wood and non-metallic minerals sought by rock hounds from location under the general mining laws. The lands would remain open to the general public, and rock hounds would be free to collect small quantities of petrified wood and other such materials. There are presently bills before both houses of Congress, S-2974 and HB-10540, that would provide for the protection and orderly disposition of petrfied wood de posits on public lands. The bills would remove petrified wood from location under the mining laws and place it within the pur view of the Materials act. This would insure that the ma terials sought by rock hounds re mained open to the general pub- COFFEE and DONUTS VISITS IN WESTERN OREGON A. D. Moses returned home re cently after visiting his sisters and their families in Western Ore gon. His sisters are Mrs. Lyrl Lynn of The Dalles, Mrs. Arthur Schmidt of Maupin, Mrs Robert Wilson and Mrs. George Mayer of Portland, Mrs. John Boogart of Grants Pass. He also visited many points of interest, including Pet erson’s Rock Garden near Red mond, the big shopping center in Portland and the Portland Zoo where he saw Packy, the baby elephant. ATTEND DINNER IN NAMPA Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boydell dren’s heart sounds in Malheur attended a dinner Saturday eve county schools. Details of this ning for members of their bridge club. 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