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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
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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-
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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
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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
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Three Million
Fish Rescued
Fish salvaging operations con
ducted on Sauvies Island this
season by the game commission
resulted in the rescue of more
than 3,000,000 fish left stranded
in potholes by receding waters
of the Columbia and Willamette.
Most of the fish were returned
to deeper waters in the immediate
area but some were shipped out
for restocking waters in other
sections of the state. By species
the fish included 806,826 catfish;
250,380 black bass; 238,250 calico
bass; 12,560 warmouth bass; 1,-
201,606 crappies, 93,662 bluegills;
5,313 sunfish; 452 ring perch; and
313 salmon and 413,270 bullfrogs.
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the cook, who got to experiment
ing with a new idea for lemon
extract cocktails, and went to bed,
boots, spurs, saddle and all.
If there’s no more grief than
that, the bull figures it a pretty
fair day.
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