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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1956
Page
5
Youth groups including 4-H forestry clubs and Boy Scouts plant 16 000 seedlings in Mendocino and Sonoma counties under guidance of Redwood Region Conservation Council. Projected this year 15 000 Douglas fir and 1 000 Redwood seedlings with survival depending on weather and care.
Archeologists dig ancient Arikara villages along the Missouri before reservoirs flood sites. They uncover earth lodge homes and bone hoe tools, tracing Arikara migration from Nebraska in the 16th century and the impact of Sioux pressure and disease. Farther south, water threatens to erase these early northern Great Plains settlements.
Don Brittingham from the high school forestry class and Ken Zamzow 4 H club director of Mendocino county joined others at plantings. The Redwood Region Conservation Council promotes the junior logging conference and related training to raise forest appreciation and care. Seedlings show two years in seed beds and none in transplant beds with some histories of both stages.
Dr. Lincoln Thiesmeyer of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada outlined future pulp technology at the Western Forestry Conference. He described semi portable automated mills, radar heating to reduce processing time, plastic pipeline transport of chips, and central plants that process branches into pulp and oils.
The U S Forest Service publishes Forest Statistics for the Pacific Northwest covering Oregon and Washington. The report updates saw timber figures, land ownership, and private woodlands, linking forest wealth to homes, communities, and global markets. It highlights Douglas fir and western pine gains and notes ownership by private individuals.
Edward G Grest of the U S Forest Service described Soil Bank provisions at the Western Forestry Conference in Victoria B C. The program retires marginal cropland by converting to grass or trees with 3 to 15 year contracts and up to 80 percent cost sharing.
Robert C. Kirkwood state controller announced an apportionment of 5 294 356 dollars to 39 California counties with federal forest lands for the 1955 56 fiscal year an increase of about 2 3 million over the prior year Mendocino County received 32 335 20 dollars the share represents 25 percent of California forest reserve revenues Half the funds go to the forest reserve school fund and the rest to the road fund Checks totaling 28 035 256 40 were mailed to 40 states and two territories as their share of receipts from national forests for the period July 1 1955 to June 30 1956 The distribution reflects record timber and other land use revenues in fiscal 1956 with some states gaining and others losing based on receipts within their borders.
W. W. Spinney reports Six Rivers National Forest supervisor that the government has sold 44 964 copies of Wood Frame House Construction Agricultural Handbook No 73 since May 1955. A new run of 25 000 copies is planned from the Government Printing Office. The handbook is by L O Anderson and O C Heyer engineers at the Forest Products Laboratory Madison Wisconsin.
The first two launching type earth satellites, gold plated spheres weighing about 21% pounds, will be delivered to the naval research lab within a week. The project Operation Vanguard aims to launch a three stage rocket carrying the satellites about 300 miles into space, where they will spin and orbit for up to a year.
Rural telephone service south of Winsner suffered repeated outages as blackbirds perched on wires. Their weight caused wires to touch, shorting lines and cutting off neighborhood gossip.
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