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If I II.I.IU Monday, July 7. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE HOPEFUL GOV. WARREN will wind up as Republican nominee if Senator Taft, Gen. Eisenhower forces deadlock, California's delegation to national convention leaves Oakland. At right on train is Joseph R. Knowland, newspaper publisher and longtime political patron of Warren. (International) By J)'m ZfeeeHsAfe, - . . . ... Gh? s Th Weyerhaeuser Century A hundred years of history was in focus on the big mill at Everett during its week of open house to celebrate the 50th an niversary of Weyerhaeuser oper ation in the community. Char acteristic reticence held the ob servance to local life. Actually this is the Weyer haeuser centennial year. For it was in 1852 that a German im migrant who was yet in his teens took a job at stacking lumber for 12 hours a day in a Rock Is land. III. sawmill. Before . long he was selling lumber. And in a little while a mill-owning group was asking his to come in as executive partner. Another German giant of the day in America had come to America as a refugee from the revolution of 1848. He settled in Wisconsin, entered politics as a leader of the new Republican party, eventually was appointed Secretary of the Interior. And so Carl Schurz fathered the for est reserve policies which were the roots of our qpresent national forests. Such matters, of history were in my mind as I joined one of the groups that were guided on Mill B tours at Everett, to see the new hydraulic log barker, the big chipper, and other mod- . ern wonders of an integrated ' forest industry operation plan. No Alligators or Burners Close to 10,000 grandpas, dads, moms, small fry, didy babes and humans unclassified were taken up and down steep stairs and over tracks and planks of Mill B during the week of open house. A barked shin with a stocking run as a by-product was the only reported injury. A stack of stories was salvaged by the fair girl guides. One was of a visiting lady from the Louisiana timber country who was cheering at ev ery turn. When she looked out over the log booms she cried, "The boom men up Nawth do have it good no alligators!" I'll tell you what I missed, with glad cries and big smiles. Back in the 1920s I described the night sawmill scene at Everett many times in short stories. Seen from a boat on the Sound or from the eastward heights the giant red, glowing eyes of the burners made the night view ap peal powerfully to the imaghv ation. The Mill B burner fell long ago, like Goliath before Da vid's slingshot the woodpulp industry and other new agencies of utilization being the David in this case. Integration, they call it. But there's more to it than abides in just that word. It means plants, manufacture, sales, distribution, features visible like the trunk and branches of a tree. The roots are deep. They have been long growing. They are in a history of human relations through in numerable partnerships and cre ative management programs. Their vital character abides in the word "co-operation." Co-operation and Integration The United States suffered a nation-wide financial panic in 1858. An Illinois lumber com pany failed. The creditors urged young Frederick Weyerhaeuser to join them as executive part ner. History repeated itself with him from that time on. The rec ord reveals him as a man of business who inspired full faith and trust at contact. Others sought him out, endlessly. It was James J. Hill who came to Frederick Weyerhaeuser in the 1890s, asking him to buy North ern Pacific forest land on the West Coast. Cooperation plus integration is the way that has led to the Weyerhaeuser operations of to day from the wages earned by a teen-age German a century ago in Rock Island, 111. Certain ly it is one of America's great industrial stories. As a historic al figure of the forest industries Frederick Weyerhaeuser stands alone, utterly unrivaled. The position was not attained by hav ing a gian't strength and using it like a giant. The strength was in character, in genius for integrating co-operative enterprise... Music Program Used In Menial Therapy Dannemora, N. Y. flJ.R) An organ recitalist commenting on the fine tenor voice of a hospital inmate was amazed to .learn he was a convicted murderer. In fact, all 12 members of a choral group she heard were convicts. The program was part of a unique experiment in ment al therapy at Dannemora State Hospital. In the belief that music would help some of the hospital's 400 prisoners return to reality, a series of organ recitals were ar ranged. The first concert of clas sical and popular selections was enthusiastically received by the inmates. The choral group was formed and prisoners now join in com munity singing. STUMBLES AT LAST Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) Lester Fox, who has driven 175, 000 miles in 35 years without getting a traffic ticket, got one this year for going 40 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone. The day after getting the ticket. Fox got a five-year safe driving award from the Soil Conservation Ser vice, where he works. . 1 ,1 C2 JULY Vi PRICE SALE Continues! Idah Wood, corsetiere to serve you ivi "The Best Is Not Expensive" 34 North Bartlett Medford Harry and David Announce Manager The "Harry and David" organ ization today announced the ap pointment of R. A. Patterson as manager of the commercial fruit sales division. Prior to joining Bear Creek orchards, Patterson was, for many years, manager of the Ore gon-Washington-California Pear bureau. His former position has given him a broad background of ex perience in the marketing of fresh fruit in all of the important eastern markets, the announce ment said. 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