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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,
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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.
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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.
In addition to his sales expe
rience, Patterson was, for 18
years, an active grower of pears
and peaches in the Placerville,
Calif., area.
David H. Holmes stated that
the entire fruit industry, as well
as Bear Creek orchards, would
benefit by the addition of Pat
terson as a resident of the Rogue
River valley.
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