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Show THE S A LINA SUN. SALINA, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS "TTT, Small Woodlots Hold Key To Future Timber Supply By BAI KIIAGC Neutt Analyst and Commentator. I have just had an interesting conversaWASHINGTON. of the forest service of the departMcArdle R. E. with tion ment of agriculture, and I have discovered that Im one of the people that the United States of America has to look to for its future lumber supply. My father took up some of the last of the government forest land that was available in the Southwest That little plot, along with the timberland straggling over the map of the other privately-owne- d of all the timber there is in the U S , makes up of our forests are public property. country. Only three-quarte- rs one-four- th And three fourths of this three fourths is composed of small wood lots which aver-- J age 60 to 70 Further- acres more much of it f is not part of a farm being an by experience d farmer A worked great deal is owned by people who don't live on the wood lot or near it (like me), and many of whom (also like me) wouldnt be able Baukhage to tell a tooth pick from a telephone pole if it werent for their size. Worse still, many farmers owning woodlots with valuable stands of timber on them dont know how to get their moneys worth from that land or how to keep the wooded seres contributing to their livelihood as the rest of their farmland does In other words, growing timber in this country has become to a large extent a side issue. I am glad to report, after telling you all this bad news, that both the government and the lumber industry are trying to do something about this situation for the general, as well as for the Individual, good. For example, in 1937, the Crossett Lumber company gave the government 1,680 acres of typical second growth stands in southeastern Arkansas. I cant go into the program of experimental work that has been done there, but there is one item that affects our story. R. R. Reynolds of the forestry service went to work on 40 acres of this area. He did the things any farmer can learn to do to a similar woodlot. Last year Reynolds reported eight annual cuts which averaged a marketable value of more than $580 a year, and he had as much volume as when he started1 Of course, everybody hasnt Reynolds know-how- , but the government is helping to spread that know-hothrough its representatives or through state organizations So is private enterprise. Florida Teachet Youth Forestry Fundamentals Thirteen years ago, Florida for example, began a forestry training camp for her Future Farmers of America members. On August 1 of this year, some 200 members of the FFA attended a two week camp at Camp OLeno, about 60 miles west of Jacksonville, where they were taught, in the forest, the fundamentals of good forest practices The first week was for beginners who had had no previous forestry background, the second week was for those who had attended a previous camp. During the first period they were taught fundamentals of gum farming how to secure naval stores such as turpentine and rosin from slash and long leaf pines; how to identify the commercially valuable trees and their use; how to farm forests as they farm cotton and other crops, how to protect their woodlots from fire, how to thin their stands of trees by cutting out the crooked, diseased, and other trees to allow the healthy ones room for more rapid growth, how to make seed beds grow tree seedlings In the second week, the lads were put through more training in advanced principles with emphasis on actual work In the forest They fought a lire to learn the correct procedure. They marked trees in a plot, estimated the board footage in a standing tree, cut it down, sawed it into lumber, and measured the lumber as a check against their previous estimates They were taught how to chip trees in gum farming and how to market the gum They were even put through a law enforcement course which stressed the incendiarist in the fighting woods. They were shown how to detect clues for purposely set fires, what evidence to collect and their rights under the law Health and recreation are not neglected in these camps, and at the end of the two week period the boys go home enthusiastic, ready to practice on their own woodlands They take the message to their parents, of course, and make a report to the organizations to which they belong Briefly they have gained a fundamental knowledge of the value of trees and how they can be grown for profit During the time Honda has run this camp, tliev have averaged 100 boss a jrar which means some 1,300 have been indoc tnnated in the fundamentals of forestry. Today many of these graduates are leading citizens of their communities and many are growing trees for profit. Program Extends To Other States Nor is Florida the only state taking an interest in this new thinking regarding trees and youth A ibama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia staged similar camps this year FFA or 4 H club members were the lucky youngsters, depending on which group the state forestry with at the agency is time The purpose, of course, is not to turn out foresters That would be But impossible m two weeks camps can build up an effective interest in growing a cash crop by growing trees This year more than 600 youths from the seven states attended these camps, with all expenses paid by the forest industries This is where private industry has stepped into the picture On the modern theory that our future timber supply must come from what we grow, not as in the past from what we found on the land, the Southern Pulpwood association, composed of southern pulp and paper industry members, with the cooperation of the Southern Pine association, pioneered in financing these and similar camps The sum total of this whole project adds up to this Industry has joined forces with state agencies to interest youth m becoming successful Tree Farmers of America, and to turn to account what has been up to recently a wasteful sideline on the farms a sideline which must supply an important part of America s current and future vital lumber needs Congress Fights Truman Proposals; High Crop Goals Set, Wheat Cut; Atomic Tests Assure New Power (EDITOR Heater By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer When pining ore expressed la Ihcag colorant they are these ef Newspaper Laioa g aewa oaaJysta and eel aeeessaniy el tela newspaper ) 8 NOTE CONGRESS: Feudin' and Fightin Hands in Pockets Bitter recriminations resounded as the fight between President Truman and the congress moved into a new round with convening of the extra session of the 80th congress In a dynamite laden atmosphere, the President appeared before a Joint session of the congress which he had labeled one of the worst in history" to demand a sweeping anti inflation economic program Tlie reception for both the President and his program was cool as Republicans launched their wrecking crew tactics Defiant GOP leaders charged Mr Truman with playing politics and prepared to play politics of their own The net result, it appeared, would be a short special session n Initial step in the GOPs of obstruction was a decision that the extra session should consider only those recommendations made by Mr. Truman which could "pass a test This test, established by the majority conference, set the qualifications for congressional action as follows Proposed legislation must be emergency in character. It must contain a problem of national Importance. It must be a program which can be processed properly within the time available to an emergency session. This available time for processing would be no longer than a period of congress which would not interfere with the proper conduct of the autumn campaigns. No appropriation bills were to be considered, nor would any consideration be given to confirmation of nominations which might be sent to the senate by the President. Over all hung the threat of a Dixie Democrats' filibuster against the anti poll tax bill, which would widen the rift between Mr. Truman and the southern wing of his party. There were no surprises in the recommended President's legislative package He proposed a of the excess profits tax, limited restoration of price controls, even more limited wage controls and enactment of the housing bill. pro-gr.y- elevators and enforced embargoes once again mark the nations harvest of another bumper wheat crop, the department of agriculture recommends a cut of 8 per cent In wheat acreage In its preliminary recommendations for the 1949 crop year. As clogged Although continued high production of other major grain commodities is recommended, a slight decrease is suggested for wheat acre- In an endeavor to make the upcoming draftee as happy as a khaki-colorelark, the army is removing its petty annoyances" as it completes plans to process men m. ducted under the first peacetime draft in history. On orders of Gen Omar Bradley, chief of staff, to remove "the petty annoyances that sent many World War II veterans away hating the army," training officers prepared to greet the recruit like an old friend of the family s Only the finest officers and will handle the draftee, training officers promised The recruit will even be given a $5 advance on his $75 a month pay the first day In camp so be won't be broke He wont even have to wait to tell it to the chaplain, as hell be taken to the chaplain during his orientation days and urged "to let his hair down All of this will take place at eight major training centers which have been set up to receive the draftees and give them their basic training They are Fort Knox and Camp Ky ; Fort Riley, Breckenndge, Kans ; Camp Chaffee, Ark ; Camp Pickett, Va ; Fort Ord, Calif ; Fort Jackson, S C , and Fort Dix, N J The standard 13 week army training course has been condensed into eight tough weeks Later draftees will be selected for specialist training or sent directly to duty About half of the draftees will see overseas duty, probably in Korea, Japan, Germany, Alaska, the Canal Zone, Hawaii or Caribbean defense non-com- d WHEAT: Goal Cut DRAFTEES: Old Pah fate to face with the congress he had labeled "worst, save one, in history, President Truman was greeted by one of the coolest congressional receptions ever accorded a chief executive when he appeared before the special session. Only polite applause came occasionally from the galleries and from administration followers; Republicans kept their hands In their pockets. area It Might Have Been g Wincheliebrities: Jamea Farley studying five shiny new FDR dimes that a waitress innocently handed him In making change on a railroad diner. . . . Morton Downey, whose real first name is Sean. . . . John Payne (of the Magic Lanterns) supping aolo in the Cub room. Leading men don't seem natural without a lady in the scene . . . Henry Fonda dodging clawtographeis congesting the "Mr. Roberts" stags door by making a clean getaway via the front entrance. The Wild West Is gone! Bingham Canyon (Utah) recently became the last town in the Far West to pass a law making It sinful to tote a gat without it being registered. Times Square Ticker; Marlon Davies former beach mansion at Santa Monica now is run by Joe Drowm, owTier of swanky Bel Air (Beverly Hills), as an exclusive beach rendezvous The rates are merely $70 a day. Filled to capacity, however . . . The revived George M. Cohans "45 Minutes to Broadway" will introduce several Cohan lilts the family found in old trunks. . . . From Elsas colm: "I lunched at the house of commons in London. I love lunching there. Its become sort of a habit Yes, dear, and blimey hif hit hisn't begmnin to show! All dtowrs Vignette New Force The veil of secrecy which has shrouded most of the post-wa- r atomic energy experiments was lifted, a tiny bit at least, for the American public in the fourth semiannual report of the atomic energy commission and an accompanying statement by President Truman Justifying the secrecy, the President contended that until controls are established on the international level to prevent use of atomic energy for military purposes "we cannot, as a nation, afford to disclose these secrets which make this new force the most deadly With form of military weapon. that statement, the American people, anxiously eyeing war clouds on the horizon, are Inclined to agree. Some measure of reassurance was contained In both reports, stressing the fact that the nation has gained new power m atomic weapons Both disclosed that the secret tests of new type bombs at the proving grounds on Eniwetok island early this year were highly successful The commission's report, the fourth summary to congress as provided by law, indicated there were three bombs used at Eniwetok in the spring project known as "Operation Sandstone Principal study was on the generation of nuclear explosion itself rather than "on the effects of the as was the nuclear explosion, case In the earlier Bikini tests The report stressed developments of atomic energy research m medicine, agriculture, metallurgy, other sciences and industry Radioactive materials have been given 229 institutions and commercial agencies for experimentation. semi-annu- They assure you IF YOU have a problem 6toring extra bed linen, clothing, or just about one hundred other articles everyone collects and doesnt know where to put, this storage chest should be of interest to you. 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Trammel Green, nurseryman for the Florida forest service, is shown here instructing two boys in preparation of a seed bed. Here they are spreading pine straw over the freshly planted seed as a protective measure. The Big Toun at Sunset : it happened the other day . , . 7 he personnel manager of a large adtertismg firm uas interrupted by an office boy u ho asked if he could hat e the following day off so he could attend a meeting . . . "What kind of meeting f" sniffed the office mgr. "A union meet. . "No," said the office boy, "a ing meeting of the General Motors hoard of directors. I'm one of the larger The agency is ted- stockholders'" eral Adcerttsmg, and the office is named William Dayton Germany remained an explosive international issue in the strife-topicture As the titantic East West struggle for Berlin continues, reports were current that four power talks would be resumed in an attempt to settle the crisis there as well as to scan the entire European situation The rumors circulated after top diplomats of the U. S , Britain and France were closeted in a series of conferences In the biggest air lift in history, U. S and British planes continued to transport food and fuel to the LIVING COSTS: beleaguered city. The big planes Hit Peak averaged 4,500 tons of essential They changed the name from goods daily in their effort to break cost of living index to consumers the Russian blockade Violence broke out in the Rusprice index but they still can't change the trend upward and ever sian sector of the capital city as thousands of Germans jammed upward banks to exchange their money for e In fact, the index struck an currency high on June 15, with food new Although she looks like a prim prices reaching record shattered levels, the bureau of labor statistics schoolmarm, Berlins woman mayor. Socialist Louise Schroeder, reports The Index, which represents re- courageously defied Russias order tail prices of goods and services to dismiss the bought by moderate income fam- deputy police chief. ilies In large cities, registered 171 7 per cent of the 1935 39 average Further Increases are inevitable, An 18 year-ol- d IN ANN 4P0LIS e too, for wholesale prices hit an at the U S naval academy plebe high during the week ended shouldered a heavy burden when July 17 and it takes about a month he took his oath. The plebe is John for their impact to be recorded in Paul Jones of Piqua, Ohio, no retail prices descendant of his famous namesake. The new consumers price index IN FORT WAYNE . . Joseph is 9 3 per cent higher than a year Neal. 48, survived by a nose when 28 8 per cent above June, 1946, he was buried for 20 minutes in a ago, when price control? generally were collapse of a sewer trench A felabandoned, and 74 1 per cent above low worker tore away some of the the August, 1939 level On J Day dirt to expose the bp of Neals nose. in 1945 the same index was 129 3 per Later, firemen and police dug the cent of the 1935 39 average. rest of him out. IN SALLISVW, OKLA. . E. W. grocery clerk Floyd. 40 j ear-olPRrCARlOUS PTROl and brother of the onetime Public Eremy No 1, Charles (Pretty Boy) Flovd. was elected sheriff In a bitterly fought contest Increasingly aware of the need security arising from death, old IN CH 4RLFSTOWN . . Farmer for economic security for themage, accident, sickness disability, Eben Trussell drove his new car selves and their families, Amerunemplovment and other condi- home, parked it in the bam lot icans will expend approximately tions There a bull calf saw his reflection 15 billion dollars for that purpose middle western, in the windshield, took a running Northeastern, in 1948 the Research Council for and Faciflc coast states have the leap, crashed through the glass and Economic Security estimates largest measure of protection, bounced back on the hood A vetThe estimate covers payments both in total amounts and In per erinarian stitched the bull together made under private or governcapita payments the study dis- and a mechanic did the same for ment organized plans to meet in- - j closes. j the car. age. which has increased sharply In recent years in response to war and relief needs. Looking forward in a move to conserve the country's soil resources, the department points out that "a better balance between and crops will actually assure higher productivity over a longer period of years Farmers also are urged to provide for sufficient summer fallow and, in marginal areas, to plant grass seed on land which Is not suitab'e for sustained production of crops. Also considered in arriving at the wheat goal were this years increased carry-oveprospects that the 1948 crop will be second largest in history and possibility of smaller demand because of improved crops in importing countries The department recommended wheat plantings for 1949 of 71 5 million acres which, with an average yield of 15 bushels an acre, would mean production of nearly 1 1 billion bushels July estimate of 1948 wheat production was bushels In setting another farm goal, the department recommended a beef cattle breeding herd of 15 5 million cows next January 1, a decrease of about 500 000 head Better management. improved feeding practices and thorough culling, it was suggested, will "put the cattle industry in better position to supply the meat requirements of the increased population The recommendations are submitted to state agricultural councils for consideration State goals and final national goals are determined on the basis of state review and recommendations. 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