THE STORY OF SAM HOUSTON

His is one of the most unusuol in Americon History. While running for ;e-election for Governor of Tennessee, he suddenly withdrew ond disoppeored.

Bul he soon come lo prominence ogoin in Texos. His soldiering under General Jockson (where he rose from private to Colonel) mode him rhe naturol choice to leod the Texcns in rheir fight for freedom. General Houslon defeqled Sanlq Ancr ond loter wos elected President of lhe Texas Republic. He olso served os Govelnor ond Senqlor for lexqs when she wos odmitted to the Union.

Privole lo General-Governor of Tennessee lo oblivion and then President, Governor qnd Senqtor of the Greqt Stdfe of Texqs. Som Houston hod his personol ups cnd downs but his service lo our counlry wos olwoys "UPS". fhe Service dl Weslern Custom Mill is olwoys "UPS" loo. TRY US FORRip-Resow-Bevel ResowSurfoce-Deloil-ln Trcrnsit. Cqll qnd get our prices.

State Park Programs

(Continued from Page 4) groves, the "balance of nature" is upset and that we must make some provision for the protection of the people and of the forest itself.

What rnost forest recreation seekers rvant is room to have fun..They want to get at the woods, to have places to sleep or to camp lvhere the woods are open and light enough and where there are plenty of safe trails-

Yet the policy of public and private proponents of redwood parks is almost u'holly concentrated on locking up still more virgin areas to grow old and go to 'w'aste. The locking rrp itself has been carried to extremes. Not only is cutting prohibited, but fire hazard reduction as u'ell.

Red'rvood lumbermen have long since become inured to' being characterized as monstrous destroyers of these Christtime giants for pieces of silver. They can go on enduring it, but times have changed. The program of the past does not any longer make sense, regardless of horv efficacious it u'as in the years before the political plunderers took over. Tlle money is not there anymore and it is not going to be there.

Emotional Appeal Losing Its Effect

Not only is the emotional appeal going to be less and less productive, but the fact that we have adopted inflation as a way of life precludes any possibility of ever .acquiring more of such properties at costs even remotedly resembling acquisition costs of the past. There will be fer'r'er and fe''ver gift dollars and those ferver dollars quite likely rvill be only lo-cent to 2Gcent timber dollars compared rvith the old ones. The program being pursued norv is doomed to fail.

Mn Lumber Deqler:

Our prices qre olwoys in line on:

FIR PTYWOOD

PONDEROSA PLYWOOD

REDWOOD PTYWOOD

HARDWOOD PTYWOOD

HARDWOOD TUfiIBER

HARDWOOD FTOORING

TNASONITE PR,ODUCTS ftTAR,tITE PREFINISHED BOARDS

UPSON BOARDS

STR.ATEX BUITDING PAPERS

It has not a prayer of providing adequate forest recreation areas for a mass California public of between 20 and 30 million people and the hordes of out-of-state tourists.

It is not even pointed in that direction. The emphasis has been almost religiously, sometimes fanatically, on "saving" every redrvood tree that could be acquired-the "woodsman spare that tree" approach. Development of the parks as forest recreation areas has been secondary and handicapped b1' the fetish of preserving wilderness a1sa5-"1fus forest primsval"-fq1 posterity.

One rvonders if any of the authors of these emotional versions cf the beauties of the forest primeval ever saw a reds'ood natural area, much less tried to find his rvay through one.

In the remarkable journals of tr*-o of the first men rvho tried it, Rogers and Wood, rve have some very graphic pictures of rvhat it is reallv like. A few excerpts from "The Quest For Qual-A-Wa-Loo," reciting the experiences of these miners and rvoodsmen in traversing the area just east of Trindad is illustrative:

"The timber in this part of this country is principally hemlock. (spruce) pine, (Douglas fir) and white cedar, (The redrvood) the most of the cedar trees from 5 to 15 feet in diameter. and tall in proportion to the thickness, the underbrush. hazle, oak, briars. currants, gooseberry, and Scotch caD bushes, together rvith alder, and sundry other shrubs too tedious to mention; the soil of the country rich and black. but very mountainous, which renders travelling almost impassible.

"\\'here the forest did not exist grerv dense jungles of chaparral, buck brush and u'hite thorn brush that were so thick as to make their passage almost impassible-

"Through this forest rve could not travel to exceed trvo miles a da1'. The reason of this rvas the immense quantitv of fallen timber that lay upon the ground in every conceivable shape and direction ahd in many instances one piled upon another so that the only alternative left was literally to cut our \\'ay through. To go around them rvas often as impossible as to go over them. There was not the least sign indicative of the presence of any of the animal creation; indeed. it rr'as almost as impenetrable for them as for us, and doubtless never resorted to save for purposes of shelter-

"For three long r*'eary days did r*'e toil in these redlvoods. Exhaustion and almost starvation had reduced the animals to the last extremity.