CHARLE AMES HAS STORY
WRITTEN BY HOLBROOK
Stewart Holbrook, one of the
best known O r e g o n Authors
was the w riter of a story about
C harlies Ames, weel
C harlie Ames, well known a re a
logger and mill operator.
The story was w ritten In an
ad form , for Bethlehem Pacific
Coast Steel Corporation
It was printed in the L um ber­
m an's m agazine.
MEH HU XI KINGS MAN
. : ' -; l n< ,- reck
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• 3 .~ix> kings high aool
,• <Iiled in a legging
on July 12, on Dead
C reek roac n> ar Ashland.
The Brookings Elks L o d g e
-gen,
will have th e ir 3rd annual picnic
raid L. Hair.ana, 20, attend
on July 28th, at the Freem an
• R’-cokings high school .n Raxdh. about ?Lx m iles up the
i -52. He is survived by h •
South Bank of the Chetco.
fe, Carol Hamann of C rescent
Nearly 50€ Elks and their fam ­
City, a son, Wesley Hamann, ilies were served there la st year
and his p aren ts. Mr and Mrs
Games and p riz e s a re planned
Dennis Hamann, C rescent City. for the kids as well as the adults.
Funeral and com m its! serv ices R efreshm ents will be served and
were held Tuesday, July 16, at a Bar-B-Q ued Chicken is planned
2 p .m . from R oeder’s Colonial for the e n tr e e __________
chapel, with J.C . Bohannam of
the Jehovah s W itness Church DIALS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs C larence Dial
of E ureka officiating. Interment
will be in the Odd Fellows Mem­ visited friends here for a few
days They recently returned
o rial C em etery. Hamann was
from a trip to Mexico, and report
born in E ureka.
seeing many things in Mexico City’
and other spots.
scratch pads
Mr. Dial was the form er m usic
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in stru ctor at the B rookings-H ar-
l e t yoar O rder NO*'
bor high school. Next year h e
Phon« 1725
wdll be teaching at Hood R iver.
ELKS PLAN
PICNIC
WE ARE PROUD TO OFFER THE FULL MAGNOVAX LINE
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C O S T S YO U LB S S TO S U V A M A O N A V O X
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C harlie now went into his short-
stake days. He toured the Valley
cam ps, worked along the Colum ­
bia, and chd a good deal of c lim ­
bing including a hitch for the late1
C .C . McLean, theloading-boom
inventor, who was then w o o d s
boss for Cobbs & Mitchell at Vai-
setz.
Then, in 1945, C h arlie teamec
up on a gyppo job w ith C. L. F a l­
le rt The two men got along fine
The contract panned out well. Fk
le rt suggested they form a p a r t­
nership and go Into the logging
and lumber business on th e ir own
Taking a chance, they sold th eir
trucks and other equipment aril
bought a sm all sawmill at Brook­
ings on the coast of Oregon. They
organized the South Coast Lum
b e r Company, bought new m ach­
inery, stepped-up the millcut to
100, 000 feet a shift. Then they
incorporated the Vulcan Logging
Company the supply the m ill.
Now they had the works. C harlie
says he had never beenin a saw ­
mill until he owned half of one;
but F a l l e r t knew m ills
from headrip to green-chain He
took charge of the plant. ("I just
look in the door once in a w hile,'
Ames has said. "I can hear the
noise but i don’t know w hat’s
charge of the Vulcan woods.The
outfit cuts its logs not far from
Brookings, and trucks the lum ­
ber to C re sc e n t City, California
for w ater shipm ent.
Now at fo rty -th ree, C harlie
Ames is pretty m u h the same
short, blue-eyed dunam ic bun­
dle of energy as when he le a r n ­
ed his trade under the three old
m a ste rs4 ra Withrow , Gus Wiest
and Claude McLean.
Although he now belongs in the
ranks of logging operato r* and
lum berm en C harlie still m an­
ages to do a little clim bing, to
hold his franchise in what he
says is the best job in thetimbor
O N I
WOULD 1 IKE TO HAVE YOU COME IN AND SEE O IK
T-V AND HI-FI SETS
YELTON
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CHARLIE AMES-----
HE WANTED TO CLIMB
TREES
By Stewart Holbrook
It seem s never to have occurred
to Charlie Ames, when he e n te r
ed the woods as a w histle-punk,
that some day he might be a log­
ging operator. His sole am bit­
ion was to attain the heights,
both actual and figurative, of a
high-dim ber. High-lead was
kind, in those days of the tw m -
tie s, and young Charlie s vision
reached only to the top of the ta l­
le st sp artree.
That was in 1929, when aged
fifteen, he went to work for Ira
Withrow, boss of the woods for
the Polk Operating Company, n.a-
Grand Ronde, Oregon. A bit l a ­
te r he moved up the mountains
to Black Rock where the noted
Gus Wiest gave him a chance as
th ird -rig g e r, then advanced him
to p a rt-tim e climbing; and at last
the wiry young man was taking
charge of the climbing and r ig ­
ging for all three sides of the
W illamette Valley Lumber Co.
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