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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.
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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.
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