Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During last fall's campaign, Democratic orators justly decried Republican give-aways in our Pacific Northwest National Forests. But they failed to expose a more dangerous give-away, growing preferential treatment for the big lumber companies by the Forest Service under the Eisenhower Administration...
Today, the lumber companies, especially the smaller ones, are almost entirely dependant upon National Forest sales for their timber. The small operators have difficulty enough obtaining timber in a straight competitive sale, since the larger companies can afford to pay more than the timber is worth in order to deprive the smaller operators and hence force them out of the area. The large company, having then no competitors, can buy National Forest timber at the minimum price...
These Forest Service practices hurt the small operator greatly, but he is most impoverished by the variability of marking. All trees to be cut on a sale are marked by a Forest Service Ranger to insure that enough will be left for sufficient reproduction. Most of the profit in lumber is made from the larger trees which contain the select, high-priced lumber. But usually on a sale to small company, few large trees are marked. A small operator has no control over Forest Service marking...
...always been guilty of these mal-practices, but under Eisenhower and Secretary Benson they have been intensified. If the large companies continue to receive Forest Service preference, the small operator will eventually be eliminated; the large companies will, to a great degree, be able to control the price of lumber in this country. The American people must act soon to prevent this lumber monopoly by demanding equitable rights for all logging companies in our National Forests...
First Family. Billy Knowland was no ordinary kid growing up around Alameda; he was a Knowland of California. His grandfather had come West from New York to dig for gold, instead found wealth in an empire of lumber, shipping, mining and banking interests. Billy's father, Joseph Russell Knowland ("J.R." to most of California and "Papoo" to his now-adult grandchildren), served in the state assembly, the state senate, and was elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives. Defeated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1914, J.R. bought into the Oakland Tribune (1956 circ...