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...Weyerhaeuser, 83, former board chairman of Weyerhaeuser Co., and uncle of its current president, George, victim of a highly publicized kidnaping in 1935; in St. Paul. The Yale-educated grandson of the company's founder, Weyerhaeuser worked his college summers in sawmills and after graduation moved into lumber sales, becoming the firm's chairman in 1955. Mindful of the need to replant his forests, Weyerhaeuser once observed that there are few men "who are willing to plunk down $1 million every year on ventures that won't pay off until the middle of the next century...
...Protection Agency (EPA) show the US Forestry Service sprayed over five million pounds of 2,4,5-T over the U.S. in 1976. It defends the use of this herbicide on the grounds that it defoliates selectively, killing hardwoods without harming softwoods, which accounts for the bulk of the lumber produced in the U.S. The Forestry Service also uses the herbicide to clear land for telephone lines, railroads, and highways, as well as to clear weeds from rice fields...
...also mystified by the incursions, but less alarmed than its Northern European allies. "It's definitely odd behavior," remarked a State Department official. "But if the Soviets were intent on flexing their muscles, they might send in navy vessels instead of lumber and fishing boats." Whatever the Russian motivation for straying into foreign territory, NATO vessels last week took part in Norwegian exercises that steered clear of the zone frequented by Soviet intruders...
Already MacArthur has found half a dozen converts, a tiny band of practical-minded natives. Paul Atkinson, dry and leather-lean, with a wit to match, is in the process of setting up a cabinet shop. He plans to beat the high cost of lumber and control the quality of his product by sawing and milling his own wood. An old chicken incubator stands by for ingenious use as his kiln...
...glazed with the sight when I arrived in Loyang, the provincial, capital of Honan; and there at the station, in the dark, they were packing refugees into boxcars like lumber for the night run over the gap. And again, the stink of urine and bodies; then, through the deserted streets to the Catholic mission...