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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1947)
y ■ < . I 4 » THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1947 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Today’s logging chiefs are us ually men of education—graduate foresters, civil engineers, technical experts on complex machinery, and the like. Many of them can reel off the Latin names for Douglas fir and other forest trees as their pioneer forerunners Licensed Contractors REFRIGERATION RADIO SERVICE Appliance Repairing STRONG’S RADIO AND ELECTRIC 969 Bridge St. Ph. 576 could charge the atmosphere with brimstone on the perversity of straw bosses, timekeepers, cooks, vice-presidents, and on the malign forces of nature embodied in forest fires and rock slides. Such perversity and malignity are an incomparably greater bur den on the modern logging head than they used to be, because of the magnitude of the modern log ging operation and its science and machinery. He has problems that only trigonometry can solve. He must savvy silviculture. He has the headaches of a fire chief. On tractors he must be as knowing as an Alexander Botts. He has to worry with efficiency engineers and cost accountants as well as with fallers and buckers. He has to be a diplomatic host to com- It's much easier than falling off a log! Just try Chevron Supreme Gasoline in your tank. It's tailored to your car and equipment with the same skill that perfected Standard’s war-proved flying fuels. New blending agents in Chevron Supreme give you fast starts, smooth acceleration, pingless performance. It’s the finest motor fuel Standard ever produced—you can bank on every trip being a pleasure trip with Chevron Supreme! L.G. Hawken Ph. 502 Vernonia pany stockholders. Government agents, movie directors and to authors, male and female. He has to deal suavely and delicately with labor unions. Tradition Rules In the head office he may be listed as “Superintendent” or “Logging Manager,” but even in these times of college loggers such formal titles are seldom ap plied to him in the woods. When he heads into the brush he leaves the like behind him, along with his garters. Then he is “Bull of the Woods” as of old. The term is widely defined, and Hollywood and the story writers have taken it far afield from its common meaning, which applies to one who is in direct charge of all the operations of a logging outfit. The bull of the woods is cock of the walk from standing timber to sorting booms—he is the Works. Sometimes the foreman of a camp is called the Bull although the traditional designation for this personage is “the Push.” It is curious to note that the range boss of a cattle outfit is commonly called “the Ramrod.” Both terms probably have a common source, the idea of a foreman being a driver of men. When Bulls Were Maneaters Stewart Holbrook, the timber h’storian, tells that in one year, 1905, a certain woods bull was arrested no less than thrge times in the then rugged community of Aberdeen on three distinct charges of assult and battery. Twice he was released “on his own re cognizance,” but the third time he was jailed because he led a bunch of his boys down Heron Street, lambasting everybody on the sidewalk and throwing slabs through store windows. In those days, as xin the earlier times of the Bangor and Saginaw pinetops, it was imperative that the boss logger be a master at the applied arts of chewing ears, gnawing nrses, gouging eyes, and the method of attack with calked boots known as “the Kalispell hop.” Such man-handling is now all but forgotten glory of the past. But the real business, the daily problems, of the bull of the woods, remain essentially the same. Such things happen in his day as the foreman of Camp 4 ringing him up to tell how they had a little tough luck on the candy side—the treejack pulled off and stove hell out of the yarder—which wouldn’t be so bad only the five-spot got off the rails at the first switch- back—otherwise, all okay, except the hostess, Mrs. Floy Odam. Those unable to attend but send- girts were Mrs. Mae Wienecke, Mrs. Eliner Kells, Mrs. June Cal TREHARNE—A number of the houn and Mrs. Leon Odam. Sickness is keeping a number neighbors gathered at the home of Mrs. Floy Odam to help cel indoors these days. Among them are Mrs. Elinor Kells and baby, ebrate her birthday. Pot luck Marilyn, who has been in the dinner was served at noon. She hospital at Vancouver with pneu received many lovely gifts. Those monia. Little Judy Odam and attending were: Mrs. Zella Daven little Jeanette Calhoun are also port, Mrs. Floral Whitmire, Mrs. on the sick list. Ii. A. Wilson, Mrs. Cassie Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wienecke Mrs. Anne Walker, Mrs. Florence are doing some work on their Reynolds, Mrs. Ruth Hult and Jim house this week. mie, Mrs. Dorothy Odam and Mrs. Exie Weaver is visiting Billie, Mrs. Pauline Tisdale and in Dallas for a week. Friends Gather For Birthday Gas Use Hits All-Time Peak * Oregon gasoline use for the first 10 months of 1947 has soared to an all-time high, Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry has announced October sales reached 37 million gallons to bring the total used so far this year to 361,828,528, over 45 million gallons more than the amount consumed in the first 10 months of 1946. Although declining since the summer car travel peak of last August, moathly gasoline use is still running well above last year’s figures, officials pointed out. Ac tual Vehicle travel on Oregon streets and highways is estimated at four and a quarter billion miles since January 1. “It's certain that traffic vol umes around Christmas time will be the heaviest in history, “New bry declared. “That means there is a grave danger of exceeding last December’s toll of 56 dead.” Motorists and pedestrians were urged to double precautionary measures during the holiday sea son. 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