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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. REAVER, UTAH 'f x -- si 1 V-"- "lrf ir Smo Woodlots Hold Key To Future Timber Supply Congress Fights Truman Proposals; High Crop Goals Set, Wheat Cut; Atomic Tests Assure New Power -- News Analyst and Commentator. By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer- - had an interesting conversa- CONGRESS: forest service of the depart- Feudin and Fightin ment of agriculture, and I have discovered'that I'm one of the Bitter recriminations resounded people that the United States of America has to look to for its as the fight between President Truconman and the future lumber supply. WASHINGTON. I have just tion with R. E. McArdle of the Hands in Pockets last of the government forest land father took up some that was available in the Southwest. That little plot, along with the timberland straggling over the map of the other privately-owneof all the timber there is in the U. S., makes up our are public property. forests of country. Only My d three-quarte- rs one-fourt- h Ami three-fourth- of of s this three-fourth- s small wood is composed lots which aver 60 to 7U age Furtherncres. more much of it is not part of a I r in 3! 'V d e in K 1 worked by an ttwf experienced A f;irmer. I great M people who don't on the wood llve V tS ::. . M 1it ni norjr it wine mis, tiiiu mnny or whom I2JI (also like me) wouldn't be able Baukhage to tell a tooth- pick from a telephone pole if it weren't for their size. Worse still, many farmers owning woodlots with valuable stands of timber on them don't know how to get their money's worth from that land or how to keep the wood- p sj ' 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 can't 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 aroa. He did the things any farmer can learn to do to a aimilar 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 started! Of course, everybody hasn't Reynolds' know-hobut the government is helping to spread that know-hothrough its representatives or through state organizations. So is private enterprise. ed uteres Florida Teaches 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 O'Leno, about 60 miles west of Jacksonville, where they were taught, in the forest, tht 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 euch 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 fire 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 fighting the ineendiarist in the 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 Florida has run this ramp, they have averaged 100 boys a year which means some 1,300 have been indoctrinated 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 thinktrees and youth. ing regarding Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia staged similar camps this year. FFA or 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 in 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 Fine association, pioneered in financing these and similar camps. The sum total of this whole proj. ect adds up to this: Industry has joined lorces with state agencies to interest youth in becoming sue- cessful 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. - new round gress moved into with convening of the extra session of the 80th congress. In a dynamite-ladeatmosphere, the President appeared before a joint session of the congress which he had labeled "one of the worst in history" to demand a sweeping economic program. The 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. Initial step in the GOP's pro-- ! gram 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 ac- tion 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 tax bill, which would the anti-powiden the rift between Mr. Truman and the southern wing of his party. There were no surprises in the legisPresident's recommended lative package. He proposed a of the excess profits tax, limited restoration of price controls, even more limited wage controls and enactment of the Taft- Ellender-Wagner housing bill. a l f n : $ 1 n f 55i hf eifc s $ .' ft-- j ; Face 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. J , semi-annu- e record-shattere- : "u""rvK-ri-,a..-:.a- : PRFCARIOUS PERCH Increasingly aware of the need for economic security for themselves and their families. Americans will expend approximately 15 billion dollars for that purpose in 1948. the Research Council for Economic Security estimates. The estimate covers payments made under private or government organized plans to meet in hit FF YOU extra a hJ 1 .prob- - C clothing, or dred other articiesT lects and doesn' Put, this under-theb- chest shnM an I v.. While the building a 30" wide. can be built to any Quired. One of the big feataltt chest, beside ample ties, is its utitoahv. 5 space. Being suspended large wooden wheels uC lunoQ under fee iLed over rugs with very lis capacity is truly 'Ifcti Being dustcroof n ... SrV 49"T!,ar The Wild West is gonel 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. if Times Square Ticker: Marion Davies' former beach mansion at Santa Monica now is run by Joe Drown, owner 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. Cohan's "45 Minutes to Broadway" will introduce several Cohan lilts the family found in old trunks. . . . From Elsa's col'm: "I lunched at the house of commons in London. I love lunching there. It's become sort of a habit." Yes, dear, and blimey hil hit hisn't beginnin' to show! .? I! Midtou n Vignette: They assure you it happened the other day . . . The personnel manager of a large advertising firm was interrupted by an office boy who asked if he could have the following day off so he could attend a meeting . . . "What kind of meeting.'" sniffed the office mgr. "A union meeting.3". . . "So," said the office boy, "a meeting of the General Motors board of directors. I'm one of the larger stockholders!" . . . The agency is Fed eral Advertising, and the office boy- stockholder ts named Wultam Dayton Holmes. h excellent nia i":'-- CLASSIFIE hitil PE P A R T M JSC E A AUTOS, TRUCKS G. I. TRUCK :4 irt hi P.ABE the NEW and Ised idli EEN'S TRUCK Mr Eve ?OGS.CATS, PETS,rf TnOROlT.HRnrn mi. ... hounds fnr virir.n Sn . Main. , Ruh.F., I i.i. t.. ' I .u. iMMll, FARM MACHINERY 4 OLIVEn rnmhlnpH hMwi. ft. cut. Herculea motor. looeie, lbb, fa. sia-- j tat li. 161 Pi 1 LIVESTOCK t FOR SALE Registered Morgan horses; four brood mares; two KAY V. WENTZ oh Out Id MISCELLANEOUS filter m fef&i a Had there been no World War II, no abdication of the late King Victor Emmanuel and no dissolution of the House of Savoy by vote (taking the crown away from Humbert), then Victor Emmanuel, pictured here, third of the line, might have been fated one day to sit on the throne of Italy. Seemingly the least unhappy about the turn of affairs is handsome, blond Victot Emmanuel, now at Geneva, Switzerland. ex-Ki- Broadway Piffle: One of the B'way 10 per centers is making a fortune booking nothing but professional "amateur" shows. . . . Gi-Durston (the Stork club canary) says when they bill you as a "Society Singer" people think it means you can't sing. . . . That lovely thing at Steeplechase (who tests all the daredevil rides) is Daphne Dunbar, a Barbizon cover gal. Does it on the side for the thrill of it makes plenty modeling. . . . Passersby do double-take- s at the sign in a used-ca- r window near 54th and B'way. One imported (Italian) convertible has a price tag on it reading: "$8,500." . . . The newest midtown phone exchange is Luxembourg 2. (Ran out of American names, no doubt.) PAINT YOt'R raid. Cover-N- 1911-N- ', WANTED Germany remained an explosive issue in the strife-torinternational picture. As the titantic t struggle for Berlin continues, reports were r current that 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 beleaguered city. The big planes averaged 4,500 tons of essential goods daily in their effort to break the Russian blockade. Violence broke out in the Russian sector of the capital city as thousands of Germans jammed banks to exchange their money for new currency n East-Wes- four-powe- All TO BUI Office Furniture. Files, Typewr. ing Machines, safes, casn LAKE DESK EXCBA 62S South State bu, SallUktft !sp: nOME FURNISHINGS STEEL if13 4 FOLDING Eve C! fet Cot with wire lint F fsts tached to frame with helical fcffiO each end. Strong angle iron te s heavy tubular ends. EndJtt position when set up. W I Ti r it Spring 17' High, Wel?M Quantity Prices Upon Er long. Ne $2.50 each 2.00 each over... 1.50 each 8 t to 84 24 to 100 1 100 or - SET 4ro vesl IRON & oS( METAL G ISO So. Third West, Salt UkiCS FeD Tiki The walking through hotels and other public buildings with their spurs on. The Cinemagicians: A haymaker among hard hitting mellers, "Canon City" explodes a replica of the famed Colorado Its breakneck pace keeps the excitement winging. . . . Another thrillodrama is "Raw Deal." This is a tingler showing in action that suits the . "I, Jane Doe" spine to a T. offers some familiar murder mystery angles, but Ruth Hussey's curves are far more arresting. . . . "The Argyle Secrets" unreels a plot that's easier to see through than see. . . "The Flame" is one of those dulluloids that won't set any box oflices on fire. OTd Life WE BUY AND SEll flzo, the Phoenix (Ariz.) C. of C. is trying to get the city fathers to ban cowboys from lio! CAR Easy Waj.t Money back guarantee. isr pies free. i the MONSEY GERMANY: Explosive tic til shot-by-sh- jail-brea- IRWlMlflll! 7 tip-to- p . "' ,ni6 kuefo QUICK . . normal nut St-- H ; MENTHOlWlJ Soviet-sponsore- d Although she looks like a prim schoolmarm, Berlin's woman mayor, Socialist Louise Schnxder, courageously defied Russia's onier to dismiss the deputy police chief. Headlii IV ... ......... IVVIPOI IS . . a , old plebc at the U.S. naval acadrn-shouldered a heavy burd.m he took his oath. The plebe is j()in Paul Jones of Piqua. Ohio. r,o of descendant his famous nav t ,Vo IN FORT WAYNE jos. . h Neal. 48. survived by a n.ise when he was horipH fnr "n """"'vvx Ml a conapse or a sewer trench j, i low worker tore away some f the . . . H:rt. fr tt iU nv..irn (i. me ay ui leai s !HAe Later, firemen and police dug the rest of him out. IN SALLISAW. OKLA. . K W Florence, the newsstand impresario (at Madison and 53r), giving free papers to the 100 patrons to celebrate her birthday . . . Relics from the Collyrr mansion in Harlem incongruously near displayed the atom bomb souvenirs of Hiroshima at Hubert's museum flea circus , . . Mrs. Dewey's charming manner of not answering reporters' questions in the tiewsreels. Stde-Sbn- frt , Fditorial: Robert Best, convicted United States has obtained of treason against the find sentenced to life, a stay of sentence. . . . 250,000 honorable American boys got death on the beaches of Normandie, Okinawa and Iwo J.ma. . . Best told 'he American soldiers : i.eiai mat tney were wrong and "itler was right. He doubtless meant it was physically safer to be a traitor behind a Nazi micro-rh".- e than in on American uni-f'-supporting the flag. . . . Best Floyd, grocery cLrk declared (when sentenced) he and brother of the onetime pub'ic w""!dn't change places with any-.- .. Enemy No. 1, Charles (Prettv Bov) On behalf of 250,000 gold Floyd, was elected sheriff in a bit ars tins is to tell traitor Best t contest. hat a short trip from Main street security arising from death, old w ArUgton is . . Farm pi better than the long age, accident, sickness, disability, r.oen uiiKiKhTOWN lrussell drove his new cai and d.rty road from Nuremburg unemployment and other condi. homo nfrlr1 14. I. !. 10 ii ire cam lot Akatraz. tions. There a bull calf saw his reflect;,,, Northeastern, middlewestern, in the windshield, took a 11 runnn, and Pacific coast states have the looks like Eisenhower leap, crashed through the ant would rather be measure of largest protection, bounced back on the hood.glass remembered A vet " both in total amounts and in per man who did so much to erinarian stitched the bull togethei n'ake America safe for democ-'t-n- ot capita payments, the study and a mechanic did the same foi one who made Wash-,- n the car. fe for the Democrats. Americans Seek Economic Security Florida teaches the fundamentals of good forestry to FFA youth at annual summer camps. 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. j ... ll e I'll p. Jevei Netv 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 internatfonal 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 form of military weapon." With that statement, the American people, anxiously eyeing war clouds on the horizon, are inclined to WHEAT: agree. Some measure of reassurance was Goal Cut and en- contained in both reports, stressAs clogged elevators forced embargoes once again mark ing the fact that the nation has the nation's harvest of another gained new power in atomic weaBoth disclosed that the secret bumper wheat crop, the department pons. of agriculture recommends a cut tests of new type bombs at the on Eniwetok grounds of 8 per cent in wheat acreage in proving island early this year were highly recommendations its preliminary successful. for the 1949 crop year. The commission's report, the continued produchigh Although fourth summary to tion of other major grain commodities is recommended, a slight de- congress as provided by law, indicrease is suggested for wheat acre- cated there were three bombs used age, which has increased sharply in at Eniwetok in the spring project recent years in response to war and known as "Operation Sandstone." Principal study was "on the genrelief needs. eration of nuclear explosion itself" Looking forward in a move to conserve the country's soil resources, rather than "on the effects of the the department points out that "a nuclear explosion." as was the case in the earlier Bikini tests. better balance between and crops will The report stressed developactually assure higher productivity ments of atomic energy research in of over a longer period years." medicine, agriculture, metallurgy, Farmers also are urged to pro- other sciences and industry. Radiovide for sufficient summer fallow active materials have been given and. in marginal areas, to plant 229 institutions and commercial grass seed on land which is not agencies for experimentation. suitable for sustained production LIVING COSTS: of crops. Also considered in arriving at Hit Peak the wheat goal were this year's inthat They changed the name from creased carry-over- , prospects the 1948 crop will be second largest cost of living index to consumers price index but they still can't in history and possibility of smaller demand because of improved change the trend upward and ever upward. crops in importing countries. In fact, the index struck an The department recommended high on June 15, with food wheat plantings for 1949 of 71.5 levmillion acres which, with an av- prices reaching of bureau labor the statistics els, 15 an bushels acre, erage yield of would mean production of nearly reports. The index, which represents re1.1 billion bushels. July estimate tail prices of goods and services of 1948 wheat production was bought by moderate income fambushels. In setting another farm goal, the ilies in large cities, registered av171.7 per cent of the 1935-3department recommended a beef cattle breeding herd of 15.5 million erage. Further increases are inevitable, cows next January 1, a decrease of too, for wholesale prices hit an about 500,000 head. Better managehigh during the week ended ment, improved feeding practices 17 and it takes about a month July was it sugand thorough culling, for their impact to be recorded in gested. wUl "put the cattle indusretail to prices. the in better supply position try The new consumers price index meat requirements of the increased is 9.3 per cent higher than a year population." The recommendations are sub- ago; 28.8 per cent above June. 1946, mitted to state agricultural councils when price controls generally were for consideration. State goals and abandoned, and 74.1 per cent above the August, 1939. level. On V-- J Day final national goals are determined on the basis of state review and in 1945 the same index was 129.3 per cent of the 1935-3recommendations. average. I Winchellebrities: James 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 solo in the Cub room. Leading men don't seem natural without a lady in the scene. . . . Henry Fonda dodging clawtographers congesting the "Mr. Roberts" stage door by making a clean getaway via the front entrance. It Might Have Been 9 fiil apace The Big Town at Sunset: area. . 1 j non-co- d of the 4 In an endeavor to make the upd coming draftee as happy as a is removing lark, the army its "petty annoyances" as it cominpletes plans to process men 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. Only the finest officers and will handle the draftee, trainofficers promised. The recruit ing will even be given a $5 advance on his $75 a month pay the first day in camp so he won't be broke. He won't even have to wait to "tell it to the chaplain," as he'll 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 Fort Riley, Ky.; Breckenridge, Kans. ; Camp Chaffee, Ark.; Camp Pickett, Va.; Fort Ord, Calif.; Fort Jackson, S. C, and Fort Dix, N. J. The standard 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 khaki-colore- (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed in these columns,of the? are those of this newspaper.) Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily By BAUKIIAGE St0ragpe DRAFTEES: Old Pals WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS rsn I . ... terly-fough- . t "! PILES T t For Quick twt. DONT DEI.? doctor' formula du Itch-lrrM- .llon loo and doctofi I'V-omt- hrlnH form"1-,,- . ' !' J. NJ J, tit U'"?.i poodr action ThomiJJ? today for or 8urPt.rl m.nt rtracUcu, k t!" f"' 0f i |