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Like many fires in Alaska, however, this 20,000-acre blaze proved to be unspectacular. It smoldered in the foot-deep carpet of moss above the permafrost, slowly charring the sparse timber as it advanced. To contain this fire, helicopters would ferry the men to points along the perimeter, where the crew would hack trenches out of the moss and fell the trees for 20 feet on either side to prevent burning limbs from dropping across the fire line...
...direct descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams, describe her future son-in-law, Adam Clayton Powell III, a direct descendant of the high-rolling Harlem Congressman. The bride-to-be is Daughter Beryl, 26, a Radcliffe grad and freelance writer whose paternal family tree is rooted in Mayflower timber (her career-diplomat father is descended from Miles Sta-dish). Beryl said that she and Adam, 22, a producer in WCBS-TV's news department in Manhattan, will be married this month at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral. If her assessment of her fiance...
...slanderous to state that "because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest-management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland" [March 28]. The Forest Service has led the way in forest management. The national forests lend the only stability that exists in the timber industry, and on the poorest sites for timber production. The private timberlands, thanks to the generous land giveaways of the 1800s, are of deep, rich soils in the lowlands, while the national forests embrace the rugged mountain ranges that have thin delicate soils...
...industry regard real estate as a logical diversification. U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers runs 35 residential developments in eight states. National Gypsum last month agreed to acquire Florida's Behring Properties Inc., which is building thousands of homes near St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale. From its original base in timber, Boise Cascade expanded into both land development and construction by picking up five companies in three years. Now the Idaho-based company aims to become a truly nationwide builder of homes, so far an almost unheard of goal in the highly localized housing business...
...ceiling is too low. To discourage speculation in securities, the holding period might be extended from six months to one year. Congress also needs to redefine and limit the scope of investments eligible for capital gains. They now include not only securities and real estate, but ordinary dealing in timber and cattle breeding as well. Oil and other depletion allowances, which by Treasury estimates deprive the Government of $1.3 billion in revenue, have become the towering symbol of privilege and preference. They can spare oil companies and investors from taxes on 27½% of their revenue from operating...