in business and professional liffhas come to two residents of Pot·latch ina way that has made thell'both outstanding in the state ojIdaho. Dr. F. C. Gibson has jlUlcompleted a term as president ojthe Idaho State Medical Associ.lion, and Mr. George P. Andel'5llllis entering upon a year of pri!5l'denc\' of the Idaho State Banker'·Association.

COVER PICTUREThe dramatic shot ~d for the ~"If

of this Issue shows lhe openin,; '­which locs are conl'e)'ed from Ite ""10 the new Veneer PLt.nt .t Clearwater.The 10C' in the forerround was the nr.lac to enter tbe plant and marks 1Mfurther pa.ek~nC" 01 "arielies 01 \1"_products from a single plant. Thnt101"s art destined (or the barker &Iithe.nce to Ihe lathe. Flitches or canb f.processlnx on the sllc:e.r will 11"2.,'('1_an endless bell from the beadrlrs Itthe sawmill

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Winding up the 1939 "Low wa­ter·, cedar pole drive in the NorthFork of the Clearwater River, JoeParker and his crew were in the\'icinity of Big Riffle, about 13miles abo\'e Ahsahka, as the lastweek of July drew to a close,

Headquarters was the scene ofmuch activity over the weekend ofJuly 22 wben 210 normal schoolstudents and faculty members ar­rh'ed on a special train. Hikingand lunch provided the day's ac­tivities. The following day about100 members of the. ClearwaterForemen's Council and their fami­lies made a similar e.xcursion.

It was with not a little satis·faction that the following letterwas sent out on July 12 to the res­idents of Potlatch: "We are pleas­ed to announce that the new wellhas been turned on the city waterline and that the supply of wateris now sufficient to permit neces­sary sprinkling of lawns and gar·dens in Potlatch. We take thismeans to thank each and everyoneof you for your splendid coopera­tion in the past when a watershortage in Potlatch could have re­sulted very disastrously. We trustour water problem is solved for along time to come."

Served with a dinner that wouldhave taxed the chefs of the Daven­port Hotel, approximately 100members of the Potlatch Foremen'sCouncil and their wives, held a get...together at Camp 33 Saturday eve­ning, July 29.

On Monday night, July 10, Mr.Rettig called a meeting for allClearwater woods foremen andclerks at Camp 25. He presentedMr. Black of the Workmen's Com­pensation Exchange of Coeur d'AJene, who told how much and whyPotlatch Forests, loc" needs asound safety program up in thewoods.

The Clearwater Plant, duringthe first half of 1939 had the bestsafety record in its history for alike period. Next to the long run of564,130 man-hours without a losttime accident, which last summerwas spread over parts of two half·year periods, the first six monthsof the year stand out as a real ac­complishment.

Recognition by their fellowmen

Earl R. Bullock

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July, 19-19"olume XIU ./ Number 10

~wiston.vtdaho

MOChel' ""The ar1lst I poR far does p&.Int·In•. e1c:h1". and RUlpturlnt':,~

Trlend' "But. of ~rse, he does one thinebelter than anythinc ets.?~

Model; urn A)'", 8U1 be'. pneu:f good al

plIlnll.nr. eU:hlnr and lICulplurlnr·"

CorrespondentsMabel Kelly ,_ PotlatchCh~rlcs Epling _... Clean\'"aterCarl Pease _ HeadquartersRoger carlson Rutledge

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Published by Potlatch Forest, Inc. Once~fonth1y for Free Distribution

to Employees

,' ••. '. ' If there are any left that have any- "_- : :i{oubt as to the advantages of the Am-

" ~. , eriean system of Free Enterprise., theyshould read the letters penned by Rich­ard S. Clark, United Press correspon­dent. W'ho writes from Russia-domlnat­ed Poland,

Clark points out than lin average con­struction worker receives 530 per month.'fhis is less than the average family re­ceives from the United States govern­ment when retired on Social Security.

BUl if prices were proportionately lowthere might be some excuse tor theseconditions. Instead, prices are four toten times higher in Warsaw than the)'are in the United States. Look at theselor example:

CoHee and cream, per cup .._.$ .50'Vomen's shoes with .....ooden

soles ._..., 15.00Women's shoes. ._. _ .. 4-0.00Working man's suit __. 45.00

Women's dress material, per yd. 10.00Gasoline, per gallon .80In addition to this, Clark points out

that no Polish peasant is allowed toown more than 125 acres ot land andthat amount may be decreased.

Behind these diUic:ulties lies fcar­lear of the secret police whose dread­ed initials are UB and which are refer­red to in private con\'ersation as BreadUnils to escape unnecessary attention.

Headqual'tel"S Community HallThe scene below is an artist's con(:epUoll of how the new Community Hall tor

Headquarters will appear. The plans are complete and the site has been selected,thus. aU that Is left is the constructJon. The building will be 50 x 100 feet. with aIG x 28 toot entrance. Its capacih' for seating- will approximate GOO. It wUl be aribbed arched rafter type of buildin" made of curved laminated pieces. The roofwill be finished in corrugated alwninum rooflnc In 100~foot strips. The eonversionpossibilities to dltrerent typl'S of recreation include basket for basketball. rollerskating, dandng, volley ball. facilities for uslnc part of the buildin" for smallparties and many other ad\·anta.res. It will be heated by a central heatinr unitutilliing hot all' and Insulatrd in tbe inside walls. The location. accordlnc to theengineers. is in the meadow northwest of warehouse,

Veneer Plant BeginsMonday, July 5. marked snother step­

;Ina stone in the history of PotlatchForests, Inc., for it was on this day that:be first peeler log found its way intothe new Veneer Plant at Clearwater.

Exacily at 8 a. m. the superintendentnd aU others who had a hand in the

ronstruction of the new venture wereAlt on the log deck in the pond withike poles and other equipment helping

that first log get its start. There was"ttIe fanfare except a photographer,mapping pictures to record pictoriallytbe first Jog in the annals ot new pro­'lids tor the company.

Xumber one log cruised overhead on:be dlain com"eyer similar to thoseL.lSfC in automobile factories for coo­'i'!ying engines, bodies and many otherjlirts on production assembly lines. ItlUlSists of a series of trollies with anti­triction roller bearings.

Log Barkerlnlo the building through a large

f.gerling there appears a huge machinecalled the log barker. It is the firstlIUlch.ine in the production line, The log'''is let down [rom the log carrier bymeans of two hoists, similar in principleto heavy duty liit trucks, to the spindlesof the barker, This maehine employsIt.'1> methods of barking a log. One isthe use of a rosser head and is used ex­l~ively on the Coast. The other ornewer method, is termed "compressionbarking," wherein the log is rotated be­tween the spindles of the barkin,i" ma­rmDe in the same manner as with therosser head except. that in place ot thislikier head a roller mounted on the endJf a piston rod of an air cylinder torcesthe roller against the bark ot the log asIJ IS rotated. thus squeezing and shear­lIlC the bark [rom the log. This method

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is relath'ely ne..... and at present only afew mills have chanRed over from theold type.

At the completion of the barkingprocess the log was lowered to a chainwhich conveys it to the next productionmachine--the \'eneer lathe, This is themoot important production machine inthe plant and is of the lat~ design forfast and accurate cutting. It is steamdriven through a t\I.'o-speed magneticclutch drive. The veneers cut. on thislathe may \'ary in thickness [rom 1 20to 1/4 of an inch and in lengths oC GOto 102 inches. The maximum diameterlog that may be Cllt is 60 inches.

The method of handling veneers awayfrom the lathe is distinctly new and toour knowledge this is the first plant inthe West using the reeling system,When the veneer is peeled [rom thelog the sheet is wound OD a reel and ina total length which will build up theI'eel to an approximate diameter oC 30inches. The reel is detached from thereeling mechanism and stored on a hori­zontal rack until its use is needed.

In the production of \'eneer on a latheSoe\'eral diUereDt types of \-'"eneer is pro­duc:ed plus the waste. It was, there­lor necessary to divert these diUereattypes through the desired channels ofprocessing. To accomplish this a devicetermed a "tipple" is used at the latheand is installed in such a manner sothat all veneer cut on the lathe passesover this device and the product canbe distributed into four separate out­lets for further processing.

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The veneer retrie\'er is a machine re­cently de\'eJoped to recover veneer from'!ish tails." These -fish tails" are shortpieces of veneer which come off thelathe first and result from the log beinglarger on one end than on the other.The)" will vary in width Crom a fewinches to the full length of the log.Prior to the development of this ma­chine these "'!ish taUs" went to the hog3S waste. It is the combination highspeed gang trimmer and clipper and isentire!.y operated from a central key­board control.

Next in the production line are theclirpel'"S. These machines cul a con­tinuous sheet of veneer into standardwidths and lor cutting out defects orselection of grades in the veneer. Theclippers may be three different typesautomatic, semi~automatic and mal1U­:Illy controlled. There are two deckswhich lollow the lathe operation. The\lpper deck provides space for the reel­ing and unreeling system and the auto­matic clipper, The lo....~ deck providesspace for a veneer storage translertable and a semi-automatic clipper.

Next in line comes the green chainwhere the veneer is ~eparated and piledon trucks lOt'" transfer to the dryers.The gang saw which recovers lumberout 01 the core left from the lathe; thedryers and dry grading tables and the\'eneer patching, jointing and edgeglumg machines. The handlinK 01 thematerial is done by fork and lilt trucksexcept the handling ot veneers from the

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assistant, George Hjort, who truckeethe party to Boehis cabin ror the night.The rollowing morning the crew ~

mounted the boats and alter a long cia)"journey arrived at Elk Creek. near DentIdaho. As experienced the lirst dlrthe same plane [lew over and droppeelunches at a point about a mUe aOO\;Big Island.

The party was met at Elk Creek IlyCurtis and Hjort who escorted tlltgroup to Camp Y for supper th~.Elk Ri\'er lor the night. The next lilYthe timber holdings of the Di.arnDlldMatch company were inspected ft:ll1o'l'·ing which the party adjourned.

A sc~pe "I Land Board IJ&r mowlA, Ed GaJI·n~y. 11m O'Connell "nd Bob Werner. lUll! DrrUbber nons 1I-5ed 'or tnonsporUillon.

C\lnom Offl«r - ~""ru'tl\ln& to o;kclIr'~dam1"

t.a.d~·-"!'o. not .. lhln.&."Custom Offieer-''Tben am t to undenUl"!

:.adam, that Ute fur ta.l hanging do,", fnlIJunder }'our coat is your own,"

A couple 01 telephone linemen We!?climbing a pole when the wornamotorist dro\'e b)', "Look at !hose.tno1l"'ons." she sniffed. "Jus~ because nhad a couple of acci:!enls, everybod,;in tov.'T\ is trying to be funny."

Nlrht baseball Is 131ked of as btilt:a new wrinkle, According to Jocko !\III'well \\'oodside, New York fan, the fin!nlghl baseball game W35 pla)'ed 011June 2, 1883, In Fort WaYlle, Indl.na.Over 2.000 rans saw the g-ame.

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lion .....as gh'en by the Re\', Fr. Michael~,{ul\"ahlll 01 Orofino.

The dedication opened a lour-day tourof north Idaho forests b)' the State LandBoard. including a two-day tl'ip downthe North Fork 01 the Clearwater Rh·er.

Blisler RustOn Monday, July 11. the State Land

Board were shown the eHects 01 blisterrust in the Clear"..ater area and weretold of the program underway to curbthis SC'ourge of white pine tTees.. Themornin,lt program was under the direc­tion 01 Herman S.....anson, Spokane, seni­or entomologist lor the Bureau 01 Ento­mology and Plant Quarantine, and in­duded a lecture at the blister rustheadquarters at Pierce and on the actu­al workings of the control program,

Following lunch the group was takento Camp 14 by way 01 Camp 60. At theCamp 60 landing, Royce Cox. PFI for­ester, outlined logging practices employ­ed by the company. Alter dinner atCamp 14 the party mo\'ed on to themouth or Beaver Creek on the NorthFork of the Cleanvater.

Crulslnr Down Thl! Rh'u.".tter spending the night out in the

open, the party boarded two 40-footrubber boats lor the 60 mile- trip dG~!n

the rough and turbulent North Fork toElk creek. Enroute party members in­spected burned timberlands. Durningoperations of PFI and timber stands.

On the first day the party beached atLand Board bar and within a lew min­utes a plane Dew over and droppedlunches by parachute. FolloWII1f,l' lunchthe group proceeded to the mouth of theUtlle North Fork 01 the Cleanvater.They were met there by Curtis and his

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Formerly Summit Loo~out, a timber­strewn peak looking out mer the mO,reth~m 300,000 acres of the ClearwaterTree Farm and spotting the town ofH'e3dquartcrs and the CTPA headquart­ers has been formallJ' renamed BlLL­mGS LOOKOUT,

Idaho dignitaries headed by GovernorC. A, Robins, and officials of CTPA,PFf and members of the family of thelate C, L, Billings gathered alop this~,200 foot mountain July 10th 10 dedi­tatt! the point in honor of the man ....i10did so much to preserve Idaho's \'asttimberlands. It is a tribute in graniteand bronze to the pioneer of foresti')'mar.ageJncnt in northern Idaho.

Dedication B)' Go\'ernorGovernor C, A. Robins ga\'c the dedi­

catory address. lie stressed the fore­sigr.t and strength of Mr. Billings' beliefin the need tor a long range program fortimber preservation. The stone Is locat­,:,d at the base of the 100 foot lookouttower lind the plaque is inscribed,"Dedicated to the man who first prac­ticed the ttopping of prh'ate timber inIdaho,"

Otto H. Leuschel, PFI general mana­ger, gave a few personal remarks aboutMr. Bilbngs. "Tree larms are a per­manent monument to his memory,"stated Mr, LeuseheL "He was a humanbeing and as such subject to humanfrailties a.. well as all of us. But be­cat;se he was a human being, we wiure\'ere his memol')' and hope to cany onhis Ideas as he would have us do,"

Tbl! program was opened by A. B.(Bert) CurtIS, chief fire warden (orCTPA and PTPA. and introduced E. C.Rettig who acted as master of cere­monies. The invocation and benedic-

Billings Lookout Dedicated

Tb~ Land Bnard ..nd 1"""tlI ..t 0>" nan 0' O>e sixty-mil.. rh'u trip.

Well: WII\" dIdn't ,'ou order the Pru-to-los:s last summer.

Bovill Trucks - Man Size

Momlnl: line-up at Clu."\'lI.ter fuel offlee..

rI~~~~m!?~~~.p!~~oJ~,?"~~~lth'lfwinter before and the winter before that? The demand for If

logs has each year become greater and greater because moreIand more people ha\'e converted to the magic fuel.I Don't let yourset.r get in the position of arri\"ing home alf3 a.m. from work and arising early enough to make the

Line up as shown in the picture abo\'e, to get )'our Quarterunit,

You can avoid this unpleasantness by acting now. Call)'our fuel department and order your winter's supply ot IPres-to-Iogs while the supply Is ample, You can ha\'e themIdelivered 10 your home in one or more unit lots during any

f month you desire, 1, +

The completed fleet of t1ft.een M:U:.k loUIllC Lrucks for the lSO\'i11 5lde.-- --

What was cabless war surplus MacktnJeks eight months ago has now been«}nverted inio a Deet of modern loggerslIlal makes ordinary trucks appear asmidgets,

Last Call [Ween Mack Army modelIN"08D, seven and a half lon, 6 by 6prime mover trucks were purchasedtrom the Stone Truck and Equipment$ales Company and h'ansported by railto the Bovill shops, Earl Ritzheimer,8M'ill superintendent, and his c.rew atIhe shops set to work. They have com­plete])' rebuilt the tnlcks for logginguse II1cluding a repaint job,

The specifications include a SW 32real end, EY 707A engine with a 707 cu­llc inch motor, and a TDR8-13 trans­mission, The new cabs were made bylIle Novelty Carriage Company of Spo­kane, It is equipped ,,"ith eighteen 1200b)' 24 16-ply tires and drags a Porter-

The woman had only one fault tofind with her maid. The girl ignoredthe telephone when it rang.

kVOU must answer the telephone,Clarisse," she told the maid in exasper­ation,

"Yes'm," replied the girl glumly,~seems kind of silly, though. Nine timesout of ten, it's Cor you."

MSenator, YOU promised me a job:'Mllut there are no jobs open,""Well, )'OU said you'd cl\'e me one!'"Tell )'ou what I'll do: I'IJ appoint a

rornmission to Im'estipte why thereIre no jobs and )'OU can work on that:'

Willamette trailer with dual axles, eachvi which has a 25,000 pound carryingcapacity.

These trucks are at present doingthe job or gelting the logs to the rail­head. Ten of them are on an eighteenmile haul from Camp 40 to Clarkia andlive are hauling from Camp 4'1 nearAvery on a six-mile run.

AI a restaurant an elderl)' wolf had madeM:veral sl}" but futile llttempts 10 nlrt withthe pretty }'oung waitress who was &('f'o'ln,hIm, Finally. when she brought his dessert,he grew a llltle more bold. "My dear," hepurred. "where have }'ou been all my life'"

"Well. chIrruped the girl maller-of-factly."for tlle first fort)' years an)'way, I probabl}'wasn't born."

Netlle-''Ooll't leI the people know thaIwe'''e just been marrIed."

Eddle-"Okeh! You read n Ix>ok :tnd I'll aolalk 10 the blonde O\'er in Secllon 7"

p_8...;g'-'_6 T_HE_F_AM__lL_Y_T_R_E_E ...;J...;o"I,., 1911

I'lctur" b~IO)W 'hOWl the 3 b,l>. lard~n lractor tJlal has been ~on\'erted for usc in ~rayll1l no"'uds :u l'oUat~h Unit.

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Bill COddard. ronner student sale­man and camp clerk, was a ,,~!

dur'ng the second week in Jul~',

spent a number of years in Ala!bwhere he served as census enumeraam...ng Eskimos. He is now in tho gea­eral contracting business in Cali!oria.

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tended a cordial invitation to the mftllobership of the Potlatch White Piners a=.lheir families to attend the annual p •nie Saturday, July 23 at Palouse. WlIJ&.inglon, according to G. D. Still",president. There are III membersthe Potlatch White Piners.

Clea.rwaterJohn Shepard and Cut Epling &to

tended the Western Safety Conferenlllin Portland June 26-27-28-29. Jobtgave one or the principal talks at IhtCor.ferenee on his training program. H~

stressed principally on how to set up,departmental trainin2 plan which In­duded the four following steps, Firstthey should set up lines of promolion, le., a job progression system listing U.

and grass. Through the efforts all!mgenuity of Art Sundberg a thlJ"t)·.PI­Ion tank was mounted on a two-wbl!t!.ed trader and from the power take-ol!a centrifugal driven pump with a PI'&­sure of 30 pounds was instaUed. nmixture used in the spray COnslslslhree gallons of 24D and ten gallons •die;el oil to 1hirty·seven l!aUons 'water. Ttis has greatly increased Iil~efficienCy of the weed killers.

A A. McDonald, manager of the PrJ.latch Mercantile (rom its beginnin,,,.til 1926. was a yisitor here duringpast week. :o.k. McDonald makes .home m Portland and at present bfactory representative of the RonChL'l3. Inc... sebring, Ohio.

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a problem tor many years. It is nec­e£SZry to keep these weeds down to re­duce fire hazards,

Every remedy in the world has beentried-men with scythes and hoes, andmore recently 240 was applied with ahand spray. This involved a lot ofhard work and litUe coverage,

Last year a 3 hp garden ll'actol" waspUl'chased and used tor cutting weeds

The wi,'es of the Potlatch Foremen'sgroup .....ere invited to their last meetingwhich included a dinner. Follo\\-ing thedinner J. J. O'Connell. unit manager,expressed his appreciation for the c0­operation he bad received from thegroup. Entertainment and dancingfollowed. Guests were Mr. and Mrs.John Shephard and Mr. and Mrs. E. L.Terlson of Lewiston.

PotbtehBovill TTueks Man Sixed

Among the graduates of the Univer­tity of Idaho in the class on 19-19 wasVernon L. Young. son of Mr. and Mrs.I... H. Young. Vernon graduated fromPtItJatch HJgh School and worked atthe Potlatch Plant durmg bis \'8cations.He served th~ years in the SIst Divi­Sion of the Anny Air Corps, most otwhich was In Ne"," Guinea and Aus_tralia. Vernon and his wife lell onJune 8th tor Schenectady, Ne..... York,.....here he has a position with the Gen­eral Electric: company.

First Kangaroo: "Annabelle, where'sthe baby:'''

second Kangaroo: ·'My goodness, I'vebad my pocket picked."

I\'OXAN_A uuturt who elW wuve Illrouch.. UOCtry ..llle eichleen mchu ... Ide"'ltlloul brlUblnc .. smell. bal&nctd 10­mato can, U>d tile... "rl"e ho..e aad knockboth d.oon 0" a Jlfteel'·foot J."'Ct.

"IAN-A. ..uy ..·ho tall I\XlI. trim ltle U1«."bloch ....&¥ while driylnl "OUYIUttl .1 i1ICb 0000. bvt ".II't 1I0dee, 1A... Idt Ol'en COIllIlf)', a wblltUnC locOIllO.ti\'" the Ilxe of a $dl001b01lS<!.

Tr3'lnc to I"eft an... an ex«edin.ly baniday al the ot~. poor father ""H beirlf; be­deviled by a strNm Of WUlns,,·trable ques­tions from little WIUle.

-Whal do yOU do down 1.1 the oU.".?- the3·ounpU,r finally wed.

··SoW....:· shou~ tbe '.tMr.After a ~tlul PlIUR. Willie 1nqU1ff!d.

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The cmly tt11..,. thai ,,';'11 positIve1y stopfaWn. ball' b the floor

Frank Yandell, Potlatch, Saves~Life of Fellow WorkerThe fast thinking of Frank Yan­

deU. Potlatch Unit, and his know­ledge and training in first aid, wasthe direet result of saving the lifeof Henry t:Jinde.r.

About 3 :50 Wednesday after­noon, July 13th, .o\Jvin Warner,grinderman at the Pres-to-Iogsplant, was having difficulty inbreaking down the fuel in the fuelvault. UJinder came to his assist­ance and when the stoppage wascleared a cascade of fuel threw bothmen into the loose sawdust. War­ner managed to work his way outand call for help.

According to witnesses UJinderhad stopped breathing.Immediate­Iy Joe Stone, safety director, be­gan removing the hog fuel andsawdust from his mouth and Yan­dell gave artificial respiration.UJinder was breathing by the timethe doctor arrived and had regain­ed consc.iousness soon after beingtaken to the doctor's office. Afterspending the night at the Gritmanhospital in Moscow UJinder return­ed to Potlatch and was back on thejob the 15th.

He was literally buried alive be­tween 10 and 12 minutes, whichwas the time necessary to dig himout from under the fuel.

This clearl~' shows the value offirst aid training. This traininghas been stressed at the PotlatchUnit and it is more apparent nowlhat all employees should qualifyand cat·l·y fir~t aid cards. Mr, Yan­dell has an advanced first aid cardand received his training underStone.

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During the recent shutdown the car­pvlter and miUwright crews repaired10& decks on Numher 1 and 2 using steelI beams. This is the first time that.'lee] has been used in place of the woodtimbers on the log deck at the Clear­\Io'lller Unit.

On June 26 Clearwater Units Fore­mens Council held a stag party at theLtwistoD Country Club for Jobn A.ram.The Foremens Council presented JohnIoith a Parker desk pen and an Idaho'lI-'hite Pine plaque with the followingmotto inscribed: "The proper measureaf a mans age is the degree ot pain with'C!ticll he receives a new idea." ThismoIto has been a tavorite of John'skIr many years..:.-_---

A tree that ne'l.-er had to fightFor sun and sky and air and light.That stood out. in the open plainAnd always got its share or rain,Ne'l.·er became a torest kingBut H\'ed and died a scrubby thing.

The man who ne\'er had to tOilTo rise above the common soil,Who never had to win his shareOf sun and sky and light and air,Never became a manly manBut lived and died as he ~gan.

Good timber does not grow in ease;The stronger wjnd. the tougher trees,The farther sky, the greater length,The more the storm, the more the

strength;By sun and cold, by rains and snows,In tree or man good timber grows,

Where thickest stands the forestgrowth

We find the patriarchs of both,And the)' hold com-erse .....ith the

,tanWhose broken branches show the

"",nOf many winds and much ot strite­This is the common law of life.

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·copy BOY! BOYI OH, BOYI BOY o-BOY CHJJY o-OOY!"

BOVILLCamp 40 in the BoviU area was the

destination of about nine young "DailyIdahonian" caTTier salesmen who wereawarded this trip for signing up newsubscribers.

The boys were treated to a dinnerand witnessed logging operations Iromfalling the trees to loading of logs 011flat cars, They were entertained by"Susy," a six-month old brown bearcub which is the pel of the men at thiscamp, Highlight of the trip, in addi­tion to the noon meal, was watching andboarding the cat .....alk of Bill Bailey'sloader at Clarkia.

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stationary and in a level position whilethe Ditch or cant is operated past theknife in an angled reciprocating mo­tion with an overall stroke of 30 inchesand at the rate of 60 strokes per minute.

Thus another milestone in the diver­sification of products tor Potlatch For­ests. Inc. bas been attomplished. Itmeans better utilization of waste mater­ial, more products, wider n'iarkets andmore employment.

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V'et>n chaIn to the dryers, The main­tenance ot cutting knIves for the \'ariousmachines is accomplished by precisionbuill machines and must be kept. to thetlIhest order of perfection to obtain fast.1Id accurate cuttin.'! of veneer.

The other phase of making veneer islhroullh the slicer. Flitches are madeb)' the head rigs in the sawmill andtransported to the veneer plant forprocessing. This prOCess will be usedlargely fol' the pl'oduction or veneel'Srrom knotty pine "cants" and will be~sed as face stock for plywood panels.The sliein.'! machine is an extremelyhea\'Y and rugged buill piece of equip­ment. In the hardwood field it is notJ.hC1:lmmon to slice materials 1/80 inchthick. therefore, the slicing knife andthe flitch operating against the kniteiIlust be rigidly in place. In this par­It\jar make ot slicer the knite is held

~ired jobs and the optional jobs1thin each department. Secondly. a

<Tt'\Io' personnel record system should beJ~..eloped showing the im'entory ofstills. seniority, job history and jobpUformance. Third. to determine the:ra;.rnng needs. Le.. the current manpow­tf .-equirements for each job and each<!uft. current number qualified and. thereser...e needed to ofJset promolions,lransfers, separations, expanded de­partn'lent and e..xtra shifts: and lastly. tolrstall systematic training method to,elect and train job instructors. makelob installation breakdown, check per­$(Ionel records for eligible trainees,~hcdule the time and units of instruc­tion and record the progression and per­formance of the trainees. The otherdelegates Irom industry \vere "ery muchnluested in the PFI training program~nd many requests were received fordditional information.Go\"emor Robins extended a wril­

len {n\'itation for the Conference to holdlhtir 1950 meeting in Idaho, The invi­lauon ....'as aceepted b}' the Board otGo,-emors. The Conference itsell in­cluded the ele\'en western states,

• • •Bob M;rers and Dick Johnson stopped

cr!f in Lewiston tor a short visit enrouteICl the East to enter the Weyerhaeuser~I" Company. Bob is scheduled to..ork in St. Paul office, and Dick isfOing to Newark. N. J.

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Ttl .. Ice man JIIlIi ..d :IS hls ::la.nee fell uponth.. ~Itn: HI'II'.:t..'" drh'" ,In,,"!y. Th, child Inth.. ~~r"'1 mJIIl' h,. )'"uu."

The chart in the columns oppositelists the mobile radio sen:ict'S and chan­nels that have been allotted to forestindustnes by the Federal Communica­tions Commission. Pennanent chan­nel a5SlgnmenL~ became effective Julyfirst.

Much ot the credit for the work nec­essary to acquire these channels goes toBob Olin, maintenance superintendentfor PFI's lngging operations. The ideawhich resulted in success \lo-as bom inthe Pacific Logging Congress \lo;th Olinas head of a corrmittee to study the pos­sib~ities of utilizing two-way radio inlogging. This committee appeared be­fo~ the Commission in Washington andargued the forestr~.. needs of wood-usingindustries. The Commission grantedthat the industry ease was justified butsaid that. in order for forest products in­dustnes to be seriously considered, anational-nol a sectional-group wouldhave to present the case. Thus, the Na­tioTial Forest Industries Communicationsgroup was formed with Olin as chair­man of the executh:e committee.

The FCC awarded torest communica­tions ten clear channels. Two are inthe 29.00 megacycle band and eight inthe 49.00 band. Awarded with the pe­troleum industries were six channel inthe 153.H megacycle band, two in the158.00 band. and four in the 49.00 band.In additloll.. the wood-using industrieswill have access to 80 bands in the ultra­high ft'equency brackets for experimen­tal work. PFI's bracket is in the 153.00band.

Bands H.C<! to 50.00 was formerlyTelevision channel Number 1. This wasgiven by FCC to the M"obile Radio Ser­\'ices and will provide 300 Channelsfrom !.he single TV channel.

"There is little doubt.·' says Olin. "butv.'hat radio oUers the best means of c0­

ordinating the operation and mainten­ance of heavy logging equipment in re·mote mountainous areas. In a fewyears it wl1l grow from a convenience toa necesl'ilt)':'

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RADIO-PFI

On a dark and storm:~: night the train­man was signalling to the engineerwhen he dropped his lantern to theground. Another man passing b)' tossedit back to him on top of the boxcar.In a few minutes the engineer camerushing; up. "Let's see you do thatagain."

"Do whatT'"Jump from the ground to the top

of that boxcar."