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Show WASHINGTON NEgWS FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Jobs In The Forestry Program It has been estimated that a-round a-round 2 million 5 hundred thousand thou-sand new and permanent jobs to-war to-war the goal of full employment in the United States can ultimately ulti-mately be created if the nation carries through the nation-wide forestry program which that a-gency a-gency is now urging. The estimate that lumber needed need-ed for domestic consumption in the (next ten years will average 33 billioin board feet annually, an amount almost equal to wartime war-time demand. This has been coupled with the report that wartime war-time timber cutting and losses by fire, insects and disease were about 50 percent greater than annual an-nual timber growth. Forest depletion de-pletion today is so serious that positve action to increase growth is imperative. Within the next fifteen years the Forest Service aims to plant 2 and one-fourth million acres of denuded land in the National Forests. It is reported that while marketing mar-keting of cattle during 1944 was at an all-time high there were 1,223,000 more cattle in the western west-ern states in 1945 than in 1934, when drought necessitated Federal Fed-eral buying of millions of head to cut starvation losses and avoid ruin of thousands of producers. Further Report on Military Trcring Poll Since my first report on the results of the survey made of the First Congressional District to determine the attitude of the people on the proposed universal military training program, additional addi-tional cards and letters have been received. These letters seem to indicate an increasing sentiment of opposition op-position to universal military training. However, added to the first report these do not materially material-ly change the over-all results, except to make the total less favorable to compulsory military training. Office Visitors During the past week we have had many more visitors from Utah than has been our good fortune since the war began. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Hodges of Salt Lake City sent most of the week in Washington, while D. Eldon Lunt, now of Dallas, Texas and formerly of Cedar City, paid us only a hurried visit. Robert L. Montgomery of Heber City called to tell us he is now a student stu-dent of foreign service at Georgetown George-town University. Neil S. Anderson, Ander-son, a hero of Okinawa, has just been released from the Marine Corps and will return to Cedar City, and Bonnie Lou Dalley, also of Cedar City, reports she expects to be released from the Waves soon. |