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4 The Newa-Review, Roseburj, Published Daily Except Sunday by tha Newt-Review Company, Inc. - laUraa wni cUu aaatlar Ma . IMS, at tfea Baal .lfla at Baaabau. Oraiaa, aaaar ul at Mini . I'll CHARLES V. STANTON .jw EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Managar Member of the Associated Pratt, Oregon Nawtpapar Publishert Atteclalion, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations Kaaraaaataa by W EST-H01.LIDA? CO.. INC. .ffleaa ta Ntw fark, Vfeleata. Saa rranolaca, Lai Aacalaa. aaatlla, Parllaaa, II. Laala UBBI.'RlPTION IIATEfl In Orafan By Mail Far jaar IS-M. ala aiaatba H.aa, Ihra mantbi 12.50. By City Carriar lr rear Slt.oo Ha afaaaca), laaa Itaaa aaa raar. pai manlb II.M. Oalilda Urafaa Br Mall far raar I . all maalfaa tl.1t, tbraa maalha IZ.1t. OREGON LOGGING TALK OREGON STATESMAN A cherry picker, in the Willamette valley, can be either a harvest worker or a crane for reloading logs spilled along a railroad right-of-way. A pole cat is either a skunk or a man who peals piling or telephone poles. A skeleton flat might be a graveyard but it's a logging flatcar and highball could mean something you build out of drinkin' whiskey (as opposed to rot gut) or it could mean any all out effort to full speed. Many logging and sawmill terms have become part of our western Oregon vernacular and are used unconsciously by all of us. Unlike the lingo of "the old West" much of which is used somewhat selfconsciously only in Hollywood lots and radio studios logger and splinter-picker (mill worker) talk is part of the living language hereabouts. From Cottage Grove, Veronia, Estacada, Fossil and other sources in this region, Wilbur A. Davis, whose home is in Clackamas, has compiled a glossary of logging terminology which every tourist and newcomer ought to memorize if they don't want to hire an interpreter as soon as they wander off the pavement into the forests and trails and crumbling Bkid roads of Oregon's logging country. It's in the spring issue of Western Folklore, published by 'the University of California press in Berkeley and here are some of the terms that have enriched and spiced our language: A farmer, to the logger, is an applcknocker. Burrelin' her means speeding. An inept axeman is a beaver and the super intendent is the big push. Wages are blood, money. Bushwah as a lot of bunk or baloney. A candy or gravy run is a profit able trucking haul. Cat skinner is a caterpillar tractor oper ator; cold deck is a pile-of logs held for future removal; cork boots are caulk boots; donkey is a stationary winch to skid logs, it's doctor the mechanic and puncher the operator. The drink is where the logs are dumped into a river or pond and a fool killer is an unsafe piece of equipment. A guy who's fouled and fly-bowed has had a lot of bad luck and a gink is a man who lives so far cross with his chickens. The gyppo outfit is a smalll logging outfit or sawmill work ing small lots of timber which larger operators could not profitably handle. A hard-faced bird is either a woodpecker (feathered variety) or a high climber who limbs and tops trees. To hit the air means to stop suddenly and when every thing is hunky-dory she's OK. Jewelry is logging hardware and a loading punk is a donkey puncher on a loader. To loiver the boom is to deliver a one-punch knockout, to make her out means I quit (make out my time) and to be orcy-eyed is to be hoppin' mad (very angry). A peavine is a logging railroad, a pilgrim is a migratory worker. To punch a rou4 is to build a road for cat logging. The show is the site of logging operations; side by each means side by side, squechowed means crooked or out of line, tail hold (tail holt) is any secure fastening. Tin pants are heavy cotton drill trousers and loggers wear theirs stagged, i. e. cut off between knee and ankle. Turkey is a logger's bedroll. The whistle punk is the signal wire operator of a rigging crew. A pond monkey works on the log pond and if he spends too much time in the water he's a pond lily. The night watch man's an owl herder, swamper means clean-up man and a shotgun is a high-speed mill. Congress Chat The sudden passing of two mem bers of the House of Representa tives was quite a shock to the membership. Both William Lemke of North Dakota and John Lcs inski of Michigan were well known and well liked. I was not well ac quainted with Congressman Lcsin ski but Bill Lemke was a good friend. The last time I saw him was at my daughter's wedding just a few days before he died. Ev erybody called Mr. Lemke "Bill" and everybody liked him. On the other hand, Bill had many ideas about government that very few of us, at least on our side of the aisle, could agree with. In this work, however, friendships arc not based upon attitudes regarding legislation. Hero it is quite com mon for close personal friends to be professional and political ene mies. With the death of John I.esin ski, who was chairman of the House committee on education and labor. Graham Harden of North Carolina becomes chairman. It is an automatic succession based upon the seniority rule. 1; i; doubt ful if any two persons ever more completely disagreed on legisla tion than did l.csinski and Har den. Since the chairman of a com mittee has considerable power in the operations of the group, it is certain that the nature of the leg islative production of the educa tion and labor committee will be materially changed. For one thing. Lesinski favored the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. Barden is equal ly dead set against its repeal. It seems to me the over all po litical scene in our country today is more mixed up than it has ever been in all history. For example Raymond Moley, now an editor and an author, was just about number one "Brain Truster" of the new deal, Now he declares that socialists have taken over the Democratic parly. Not long ago Moley said: "Shrouded under names like liberal and progres sives, the Socialists crept into the Democratic party and have taken Ort. Thurt., June 8, 1950 back in the woods the owls it over. Truman has become the spokesman for their purposes." Speaking of quotations, here is one by Charles F. Kettering, fam ous inventor and scientist which I think is something of a cutie. Ket tering says: "One of these things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much govern ment as we pay for." In the spring of 194S when our country was still suffering from shortages of several basic com modities, steel among them, the Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee, of which I am a mem ber, held weeks of hearings on the fuel oil shortage problem. We learned that one of the difficul ties in oil production was the shortage of steel. We also learned from Department of Commerce of ficials that the Department's Of fice of International Trade was still issuing export licenses for the export of steel products and only ceased issuing such licenses when our committee began putting the heat on them. We were told that Russia, who had not been a big steel customer before the war, was shipped 600 times as much steel in 1946 and .160 limes as much steel in 1947 as she had ordinarily received from us before the war. Those two years were the years of our most desperate shortage of steel We also learned that one of the men who was recently discharged by Secretary Sawyer was in an important executive position in the Department office which han dled the export licenses for ship ments In Russia. I had forgotten this testimony until the discharges were announced. Then I look a few hours and read it. There was something peculiar, if not wrong, in the O. I. T. about that time. That might have been due to in competence, or to bad judgment, or 11 could have been due to un usual friendliness taward Russia. I haven't information enough to stale delinitel. what was wrong. I feel pretty certain however that firing a few Department officials will do the country no harm. News-Review classified ads brin results. Phone 100. How Much S This ia the tala of Mr. Excman, a packet of climbing beans, and the battle which the beans but let me begin at the beginning, which was when Mr. Exeman de cided that a white-painted trellis, not in use at the moment, about 4x8, would be just the thing to run the beans on I He staked it up close to the garage next door which shaded th beans from the west. t . For some reason not quite clear to anyone except Mr. Exeman, he slanted the trellis backward at a sharp angle, and carefully, gent ly, showed the bean runners where they were to go. A little later, having snoozed a bit in the lawn swing, he inspected the garden, and found the beans had misunder stood. They had disengaged their tendrili and were waving peace fully in the air. Once more, not quit so gently, Mr. Exeman twined the bean run ners when they should go. This performanc was repeated for sev eral days . . . with Mr. Exeman's patience wearing thin, and his fingers less gentle each time. The runners even clasped each other and waved about in the breeze thus supported two runners being better than one alone for that purpose. Mrs. Exeman (remembering cer tain experiments in a school labor atory in which there had been 'Rigor Mortis Tag Picked For Town's Centennial Slogan FILLMORE, N. Y. -.-" A Century of Rigor Mortis." That's the none too boastful slo gan this Allegany county village of 500 has picked for its centen nial. July 3-8. Others have sug gested that a better, non-1 a t i n slogan, would have been "A Cen tury Without Progress." Committee members are quick to let you know that their slogan about 10O years of rigor mortis (a stiffening of the muscles after death) is not a joke. . They say they picked it because (hey hoped (0 arouse interest among business people in improv ing the appearance of the village Robert G. Aldrich, centennial committee business manager and publisher of the Northern Alleganv Observer, says Fillmore looks like a frontier movie set. "The business buildings." h e says, "are almost all of wood frame construction, displaying a line of ancient false fronts equalled by no other town in the country "Some of them are sadly out of plumb and seem to lean on their neighbors for mutual support." Before 1850 Fillmore was known as "Mouth of the Creek." It was a tiny community on the old Genesee valley canal. In 1850, (he village fathers adopted the present name in honor of President Millard Fillmore. , At (hat time, Fillmore had a shipping center. But years later, when the Rochcstcr-Olcan division of the Pennsylvania railroad re placed the canal, Fillmore became a shopping center for farmers. Fillmore has few industries. The Rochester Gas and Electric Corp has a branch area office which employs about 50 persons. The Perry Knitting Corp. hires about the same number But Aldrich says Fillmore "is br no means a dead down." "The volume of business trans acted here." ha aayi. "is double I that of many surrounding commun And Where Did fy By VMmtti S. Martini climbing bean, a pencil-stake, and much discussion, with a general consensus as to the stubborness of a bean), suggested that the beans would not run on that trellis the way it was ... a suggestion Mr. Exeman disdained. He had raised acres of beans, he would like to have her know. "Climbing beans on slanting trel lis with a contrary light?" "Beans! Just beans! Planted and 'plowed.' (Mrs. Exeman and her husband having observed agricul tural pursuits in different sections of the country in their youth, could always find something to chat about when she said 'cultivate' when she should have said 'plow ed'?) Let 'em run any way they wanted to." Which, of course, is just what beans will do, whether on a field or a slanted trellis! One morning bright and early Mr. Exeman was out in the dewy garden, removing the trellis, le moving the stakes, removing the beans which he tossed on a rub bish heap. "There," said he, with obvious satisfaction, "I guess I licked those beans this time!' "Oh!" said Mrs. Exeman. "Yes," said Mr. Exeman, a trifle louder than necessary. Mrs. Exeman thought a moment, and then she said something her husband thought was 'cockeyed': Said she, "Do you know, I thin'c the beans won." ities of twice the size and half the ingenuity." Nevertheless the stationery of the centennial committee has sket ches of a stage coach captioned "Still in the Horse and Buggy Daze," and a tombstone with the inscription: "Filmore, New York, 1850-1950, Rest in Peace." Reserve Unit Of Firemen Calls For More Volunteers An additional 25 volunteer fire men to form a reserve unit in Roseburg are being sought by Fire Chief William Mills. The Roseburg fire department, said Mills, is organizing for civil defense, along with ail the de partments in (he state. Anyone wishing to become a fire reservist to aid in protection of life and property in case of a third world :ar can leave his name with the department at the city hall, said the chief. Development of a reserve unit here is the outgrowth of a week long convention held in Salem last week by Oregon fire chiefs. The local volunteer departmen( cc.isists of 35 members, who drill regularly with the paid firemen, and answer calls to fires. The re serves would not only be used in case of an emergency but the unit would also serve as a reser voir of trained men to fill vacan cies which might exist in the reg ulars, according to Mills. WITH WACS IN JAPAN Cpl. Marguerite P. Robinett i;i serving with the occupation forces in Japan, it was announced re cently by general headquarters. Far East command. She is as signed to the 8:'23th WAC com pany, which is billeted in the huge .Miisuoisni main Dunning in me heart of Tokvo. Cpl. Rnhinelt is the daughter of .1. R. Pickett, who resides in Aialea, Or. He Get It? In the Day's News (Continued from Page Onel turn marble into a liquid THAT FLOWS LIKE MOLASSES. Dumbbells will want to know what good can come of making marble flow like molasses. Dr. David Griggs, UCLA geophysicist, hopes it will help "explain earth quakes and perhaps TELL HOW TO LOCATE VEINS OF PRECI OUS METLS by duplicating sub terranean conditions." Knowledge marches on. YOU never can tell about these new developments. When the scientists first began to talk about prying atoms apart and recom bining the pieces, we common run of folk gave it no heed. Then came nylon and we sat up and began to take notice. Aa T Princeton they are setting up new research center TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHY THE COUN TRIES OF THE WORLD DON'T GET ALONG WITH EACH OTHER. Presumably we have to find out WHY THEY DON'T GET ALONG before we can learn HOW THEY CAN GET ALONG. If we could, find out how nations can get along with each other we might be able to find out how individual human beings might get along with each other. After that might come the millennium. 'aaa AT a little town in Connecticut the other night, they were hold ing a nice gentlemanly and lady like bingo game in a public hall (bingo is legal in Connecticut if conducted by a non-profit organiza tion). Suddenly a guy yelled bingo! and proudced a card that, he said, entitled him to the $960 jackpot. The operator of the game and the cops, after a consultation, dis agreed. They claimed the guy had four confederates just outside the window with a small printing press and when the bingo operator called out the winning numbers, they printed a card to match and slipped it throughh the window quickly. The trouble with gambling is that there just doesn't seem to be any way to keep gamblers honest. Flower Lovers Urged To Enter Riddle Show Flower lovers are being urged to exhibit their favorite roses and other seasonal blooms Saturday, .lune 10. at the Golden Key club flower show which will be held in the Riddle Guild hall. Entrants must provide their own containers and flowers should be brought tn the hall by 10 a.m. Show hours will be from it a m. to 6 p.m. There will be a door prize. Suggested entries range from sin gle specimens, groups of three, or mass arrangements. Also suggest ed are miniature arrangements, dish gardens, shadow boxes, cor tauivt rani and notled nlantv liv ing room and dining room table bouquets and arangements. IMans tor the exhibit are heing ; filed against them, made under (he chairmanship of 1 The raid was based on infor Mrs. Herbert Bell. ; mation Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of PERCY L. BEALS DIES COTTAGE GROVE, June 8 Percy Lamotle Beals, residen( of Days Creek, died June 6. In a Sa lem hospital at the age of 72. 'He was born at Davs Crek and h. 1 spent his entire life in that section. . survivors include one hrothrr. Theron Beals, t'amas, Wash.; (wo sis(ers. Mrs. Mamia Gidney and Mrs. Pearl Safley. both of Cottage Grove. Battle Between NLRB, Denham Getting Hotter WASHINGTON. 71 The b i gj policy battle within the National Labor relations board seems to be getting hotter instead of auieter. The scrap has been almost con tinuous between the five man board and NLRB counsel, Robert N. Denham, since the Taft-Hartley law went into effect in 1947. Several weeks ago,' after Con gress turned down President Tru man's reorganization plan to abol ish Denham's job, the general counsel sent a let's-make-up mes sage to the board. But after sev eral peace conferences, the fight goes on. The board has ordered a brief filed in the ninlh U. S. circuit ! court of appeals in San Francisco underscoring the whole contro versy. The argument in that case is whether the board should decide some labor problems for a group of four corner drug stores (Hale ston stores) in Portland, Ore. The board said this is too small a case Tor applying Taft Hartley. Denham contends the law should be applied, and furthermore, that it's up to him and not the board to say what cases the board de cides. Basically, Denham takes one view of the law in many respects .and the board takes an opposite view. They differed on something else. Denham had announced last De- cembcr that because it's virtually impossible to hold labor election's in the vast construction industry, due to the fact workers switch jobs so often, he wasn't going to require Taft-Hartley elections in that industry. Denham asked the board to go along with him on this. The board said no. It said the elections are required by law and can't b e waived. It said the situation ought to be reported to Congress "rather than change the law ourselves by administrative exemption of a sin gle industry." The board is saying Denham's construction industry ruling amounts to winking at the law and Denham is saying the board's refusal to handle the drug store labor case is another wink. Coulee Sagebrush Erased By Aerial Spray Of Poison COULEE DAM. Wash.. .June 7 (PD aring pilots in grime streaked little airplanes are deal ing death by the gallon to 20.000 acres of sagebrush in Grand Coulee flying from 12 to 20 feet above the ground, the pilots are spraying the bottom of the coulee with a liquid that's poison lo the sage brush. But it's, harmful only to broad leaf plants. Wheat crops will continue to grow and be harvested When their job is finished anj the pumps at Coulee dam are ready, a lake will spread over the coulee floor. It will be a huge icaervoir lurnisning waiter lor 11 ngation of land in the Columbia basin project. 'he sage and weeds must be killed before the lake is formed to keep weed seeds from spreading 10 the basin farm land. The planes are owned by J. W. Hardison of Yakima. He holds a $348,000 contract for clearing the coulee of weeds, fences, buildings and trees. Zooming low between the per - pendicular coulee wails, p 1 a n e pilots unload a lethal mixture con. laining the compounds 2,4-D and I 2.4,5-T on the sage and weeds. ! lest plots already show that the I poison has been administered in a I Killing dose. The chemical war won't entirely supplant normal methods of break ing down and dragging out the sage. Dead apple orcnards have been cut and piled up for burning in the future. When weather conditions are right, and all precautions have been taken, fires will dot the roll ing coulee as the future lake lloor is given its final treatment. Now Ilardison's pilots are hap ping down the valley from tempor ary landing strips spraying the poisonous oil mixture wherever it's needed. Betting Racket's Extent Revealed In Seized Files ST. LOUIS, June 9 t.Pi In vestigators reported that confiden tial files seized in a raid on a national betting headquarters told of extensive wagers being handled through Western Union managers. Copies of (housands of (elegrams and leltcrs were obtained in the raid. Police arrested Sidney Wy man and Sieve Montefelice. Prosecuting attorney Stanley Wallach of St. Louis county called Wyman a "current kingpin of the gambling fraternity." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said the files showed Western Union managers were offered "25 per cent of the winnings at the end of the month, after deducting ex penses for wire charges and form sheets." The betting commissioners mak ing the offer were listed as C. J. Rich and Co. In New York City, the Western Union Telegraph company said its instructions prohibited employes from accepting "gifts, commis sions or gratuities from betting officials or other similar establish ments." Wyman and Montefelice were re- . leased on Si ,000 bond each to I answer any charges that mav be New Jersey gave to Gov Forrest Smith of Missouri A county grand jury of Bridge-! ton. N. J., last Monday returned 1 an indictment naming vi'vman and ' three other St. Louis men. I The indictment w as another in a ' series charging Western Union with aioing gamming by transmitting horse race bets. western union said it was asking fr copies of "the reported letters f r 0 m employes acknowledging Oregon Unemployment Continues Heavy Drop OREGON UNEMPLOY- 12 n'.I-n SALEM (.Pi Unemployment ! in Oregon last week dropped to 30,434, the lowest June 1 tigure since the end of the war. the state unemployment compensation com mission said. During last winter's cold weath er, there were 100,000 persons without jobs. f During May, 10.000 unemployed persons went back to work, most ly in the lumber and logging, con struction, food processing and ag riculture occupations. Nearly 85,000 men are working in lumber and logging jobs, com pared with the post-war low of 55,000 last winter, and the peak of 91,000 in August, 1948. Astoria, The Dalles and Tilla mook were the only areas in the state which reported more jobless Senator Graham Faces North Carolina Runoff RALEIGH, N. C, June 8. P Willis Smith today announced that he will enter a June 24 runoff pri mary against Senator Frank Gra ham for North Carolina's Demo cratic senatorial nomination. Gra ham led Smith by 53,000 votes in the May 27 primary, but lacked a clear majority by 5,600 votes. Smitn, Raleigh lawyer, cam paigned as a conservative in op position to much of the President's "Fair Deal" program. Former Senator Rooert R. Reyn olds and Olla Ray Boyd, small town pig breeder, were eliminated in the first primary. gifts, commissions and gratuities so that we can investigate and take appropriate action." PHONE 100 between 6:15 and 7 p. m., it you have not received your News Review. 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