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Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire...
...received $90,000 a year. His new salary was not revealed. Hale Holden, whose $150,000 salary was recently cut 10%, will receive another 10% cut to gether with all other S. P. men getting $10,000 or more. Completely shelved by the changes wall be Henry Wheeler De Forest, board chairman. His position will be abolished although he remains a director and on the executive committee. Net result of the changes, putting Hale Holden in supreme command, follows the trend of all roads toward simplification of control...
Juggling figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
Henry W. de Forest...
...School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music, is given to Jacob M. Coopersmith, of Forest Hills, New York...