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New Ideas and Improved Methods
By FLOYD QUERY
JO H N B. WOODS, JR., of the
It is with regret that we do n o t have
State Forestry Department, w ith the the names of all the people who made
assistance of thé shop mechanics, has this possible. Robert Evenden, Direc­
developed a | "Bazooka” for peaceful tor of the Accident Prevention Divi­
use. The new device" consists of three sion, and his staff are in direct charge,
essential parts: a metal tube 44 inches of this work, conducting 112 safety
in length w ith thé lower end Split and training schools, publishing safety codes
flattened to form 'a blade, a wooden and a magazine, Safer Oregon, among
thrust rod, and a three-inch “coil spring. other activities. Our. own Governor
Instead of being a weapon q f destruc­ Snell for years has been an active spon­
tion, this implement is designed to re­ sor of accident prevention methods and
seed denuded . forest lands w ith tree has given his enthusiastic support to this
seeds. .
plan.
Lynn F. Cronemiller, Assistant State
N EW EQUIPM ENT in the form of
Forester in charge of the lands division,
tractor loaders, purchased by thé State
advises that by using this ' device one Highway Commission for the Mainte­
man can seed about, three acres per day nance Department, and used .primarily
as against about thrèe-fourths of an by the paying'crews, has demonstrated
âcre per day by planting seedlings. It
a considerable s a v i n g ' in pavement;
costs, between $3.00 and $5.00 in? the patching costs. Cecil Daimlerjs crew
nursery to raise seedlings enough for an reduced costs p ç r ton for mixing hot-
acre. Reforestation has largely been stu ff-fro m $1.51 per ton in 1943 to
held back by the prohibitive cost of i$4.26 per ton in 1944. This crew
planting seedlings.
placed 16,%37 tons w hich-at $0.25 per
tori amounts-to $4084.00. The cost of
A technique of area poisoning to get
rid of rodennts that eat seeds has been the loader was about $2 500.00. arid it
developed, and if successful wilf .Open will be used about ten years before it*
fully the way to cheap and quick re­ is worn out. H
forestation of Oregon, timber lands---—a
During the winter months, H . C .”
m atter of vital importance in this state.
Meltqni used one of these loaders for
TH IRTY -SIX LIVES SAVED, 7094- cleaning ditches.”. He kept costs on an
fewer injured Workmen, and $387,- average day’s work and found that it
966.00 V
saved the Industrial' Accident .cost I about $0.40 per cubic yard to
Fund in 1944 as compared with the' clean the ditches and haul the dirt
1943 record is the report of the Acci­ away,- using the loader. To shovel the
dent Prevention Division of the Indus- dirt by hand and haul it away costs at
trial. Accident Commission, according least $1.00 per cubic yard, j
to information released by Ralph W.
A combination of good equipment
Emmons, administrator. The cost of
and intelligent operators, is â money
the accident prevention program for
saving team in anybody’s business.
the year was only . $144^827.00. These
sayings in lives arid ^suffering rite rep­ There is destiny that makes us brothers,
resented in dollars saved the accident
None goes his way alone;
fund by computing the average claim All that we send in to th e lives of others,
cost for 36 fatal and 7094 non-fatal
Comes back into our own.
claims. .
*&%^Edwin Markham