Top of Pce--Ionc trainload of locs approac:h1Jlc (:;rossinC ouUlde of IJ(wlll enroute to Pot_1aldt-"'SI.nc:e the first of the year enoulh saJl! tel excite the en,")' of suc:h fabulous c.haractersII f'l"Cll Paul Bunyan."

(Clller abov_te:t.m loader ll.t Camp 42 ddlnc, 8ovU'-t thfl' c:ontrols ,·eleran bolster Bill&lkt. One of ne'" methods employed at Bovtllis 41red loadlnC of 101S from truck to Rat car-.ld1'uI13lu dalmed tm:lude no dean-up problem at landlnc, and Ius breakale of s~11lip .. eub truc:k hauls same sb;e toad a.s Rat car.

Volume XlI March, 1948

Lewiston, Idaho

No. 6

Tim-m-ber-er-r! !Its echoes richocheting down

and across the wooded depth.s ofcanyons in the Cleanvater and Pot­latch, the word "timber" has shat.tered the quiet of the forests oft~n

enough since January I, 1948 tobring great comfort to woods bossEd Rettig.

When the year turned over anda diapered young gentleman bear­ing the label 1948 took chargethere was a none too satisfactorylog inventory gracing the ponds atLewiston and Potlatch. And thatchampion of unpredictables, oldman weather, bad behaved nonetoo well. There was little snow inthe woods. Bunkhouse prophetswere freely given to frowning pes­simism and SOUl' prediction of eadyspring with bottomless roads andmud "seat-of-the-pants deep to atall Injun." They phrased it a bitdifferently, but the meaning wasthe same.

But, not so, happily. The wea­ther has held long enough for somerecord logging. Log inventoriesblossomed like a carefully tendedtulip bed in early spring and all'swell with the world, at least tem­porarily so. Best evidence of thespeedy pace of sawyer, choker set­ter, cat driver, truck driver, andlanding crews is perhaps the Sat-.Ul'day shift of the pond, sawmill,stacker, unstacker and dry kilncrews at Clearwater. These depart-.ments are scheduled for operationon Saturdays for a period of up toeight weeks to reduce log inven­tory. Another healthy sign is thebig deck of logs at Bovill, about700M ft., alongside a rail siding

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Published by Potlatch Forests, Inc., On~Monthly lor Free Distribution

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March, 1948Volume XU No.6

Lewiston, Idaho

Editor _ _ _.._.._ Leo BodineCorrespondents

:Mabel Kelly .._ _.._.......•...... PotlatchCharles Epllng .__ __ ._.•....ClearwaterCarl Pease _. HeadquartersRoger carlson __ __ _.. Rutledge

This ThingCalled Profit

Does American Business MakeEnough Profit? A silly question?No, quite the reverse. U's not asilly question but rather one whichis causing a lot of concern amongserious thinkers.

The first obligation of a busi­nessman or a manufacturer to hisemployees, to his community andto the.. people who have-invested.their savings in his enterprise, isto make an adequate profit. Ithe fails to do this, there canbe no reserve accumulated for re­search and expansion to make bet­ter jobs and more jobs; there canbe no reserve built against off­business periods; there can be noreturns paid to stockholders; andbecause a business cannot remainstatic, the manufacturer who failsto make an adequate profit willeventually join the bankr\1pt withattendant hardship to those asso­ciated both directly and indirectlyin his venture.

Unfortunately there are manyfalse notions about the percentageof each sales dollar that ends up asprofit for business and industry.The steel industry serves as an ex-

The Family Tree

Billings Talks to LatahChamber of ColDIDerce

J\.farch 25th General ManagerBillings told 130 members of theLatah County Chamber of Com­merce, meeting in the Camp 42cookhouse, Bovill, that <I ••• ourrelations with people of LatahCounty have been vel'y good ...we've been well treated ... thePotlatch unjt has been producinglumber in Lfttah County for 42years ... we expect to go on pro·ducing lumber and other productsfor a long, long time ......

Saw-log size timber is dwindling,Billings told his audience, but thatdoes not mean the end of opera­tions for Potlatch. Timber inven-

ample. Here a survey revealed thatmany people thought profits to beabout 25~/o of sales whereas theaverage fCJr the past several yearshas been only 311270. Surveys havealso indicated that public estimateof a fair profit on sales is 10%whereas the nationwide averagefor industry in 1946 as revealed byNational Industrial ConferenceBoard figures was onl)' 4.7%.

American business, under oursystem of freedom of opportunity,has done more than anything elsein the world to make the poor manrich. There is general recognitionof this, but a lot of propagandacan be found which would have usbelieve the main pW'pose of indus­try is to exploit the poor man bycharging outrageolls prices to rea­lize big profits. This sort of propa­ganda is :} smoke screen laid bycommunist and social agitatorswho know that our system depenelsupon reasonable, adequate profitsfor the release of individual i.nitia­tive; to tide business through tem­porary periods of depression; toprovide money for research and ex­pansion; to pay stockholders a re­turn on their investment, etc. Theythink our industrial enterprise onits present margin cannot survivea temporary depression and it isthen they count on taking over.Possibly they are right, more prob­ably they are wrong, but, if the)'should prove correct in their be­lief ... we are due to lose a goodmany of the liberties and luxuriesnow enjoyed.

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tories show enough reserve to pet.mit another ten years of cuttilliat the rates of sixty mi.1lion peryear. By reducing the cut to thirtymiJlion per year and adding maochinery at Potlatch to process Ipart of the thirty million into [in.ished or semi-finished articles ingive employment to those displacedby a reduction in cut-the life ofthe plant ,'an be extended to hventryears. Tl~e necessary maclrineryhas been mstalled at Potlatch. ,.a shook slicing machine, Wideboard glueing machine, edgilllplant, knot seaUng machine, botfactory, pallet manufacturing, etc.These machines and departmentswill get into full operation onttthe present shortage of housinRlumber eases to a point where thecompany can reduce cut withoutbecoming the object of criticism.

The twent)' .years of operationwill afford time in which to searebfor other products that will pro­vide utilization of bark, limbs.stumps, etc. Fiber will perhapsprove one answer, or a partial an­swer, or perhaps some entirely newproduct will be discovered whiebcan be widely marketed.

.A somewhat similar situation,Billings explained, existed at Clo­quet in 1918 following the gre31fire whjch wiped out practically allthe saw log size timber in the en­tire country, leaving only a fastgrowing second gorwth composedlargely of inferior species of tiro­bel'. But, whereas Cloquet had toimmedaitbly find some way to sus­tain itself on small second growth,Potlatch will have a much longerperiod of time ill which to gradual­ly convert. Best spokesman for Clo­quet's success is the increased siltof the city as compared to the pre­fire boom clays when Cloquet wasthe White Pine capital of the world.The answer Cloquet found was themanufacture of insulation (blanketancllath type) from wood. There j.;every reason- for belief that Pol·latch can do as welL

F(lll(lwlnl '" lonl and slra.lntd ..lienee ~malt hair or Ihe partnership tor Ufe: :....n...me:n~ sald-nen'ou$ly-;-"You know dear.-·"Yn~"

"-I ••. ah, ahcr thlnklnc o"e:r our U,,"men~ have: d~c1ded 10 3.cr~e with you :lfWall:'

"That won't do }'Oll any cood;' ume Wrep}}.. "I'vt chanced my mInd:'

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scious of none."-CaTlyle.

Keep Idaho Green CommitteePlans Ambitious Program

The Keep Idaho Gre-en Commllt~. a(C'ordlnl Lo ehllJr*nan .I. O. l\IdlurMl)' 0' 801't! wllJ have a.s lu coal durinl19-&8 the erttlJon of loao1$ldt $lJl"rtS alone all main hJcbwaysot the SLate and particularly In :ueas where tire I1;lUrdSare u:treme durin, II prt of neb. )·ur.

In addition to dl51rlbutlon or IlteMllurI:, use or neWIP3perach'trtlsemenu. radio procnmu. ete~ to pUbllcb;e Ult! needror care with fire, the eon'millet each year main,. someOnt aspect 0' lhe proc~ a major appr.at-h ror that year.In ,"'j the Item ech'en top blillne was license plale lltt3.eh­menlS which were widely distributed about the Slate.

The slrn to be used will be afound twelve reel In helrhtand abOll1 eleM rett atross ;u the bue. It will taper up­ward to a point, will be cut to resemble the ouUlne of atrep' and will be painted a dark creen. Thue will be anO\'l'rlay of the words "Kel'p idaho Orl'l'n" In luminouspaint cont.alnJnr small rlass buds lo c:at<:.h a.nd rl'1ll'ctheadll(hls or passin!: ears at nlChl. Thl' slrns will In thismllnner be twenty-lour-hour ada}' rf-rnlnders of lhe needfor care wIth fire.

Olstributlon and ereetlon of the slros will be in coop­er:t.tlon "'Ith the various Junior Chambl'rI of CommerCII!abOIU the state who Jointly spon$Or the prornm wllJl. thero\'ernor'lI commltlee, of ..hleh Mc:>Olurray b: ehalrma.a..

ditions that would restrict or prohibitoperations by fixed \\:ing types ot. air­craft, (c) the absence of t.orward speedin executing [oreed landings, thereb.frequiring an area of only a rew helicop­ter lengths in size.Spe~d ranges t.rom zero to 100 mph

with vertical ascent or descent, back­wards and sidewards flight, plus pro­longed hovering abilit)' at altitudes upto several thousand feet.

Nimble in flight the helicopter posses­ses many advantages in spl'aying ordusting tor insects-it can hop from treeto tree or fly at speeds of from 20 to60 mph leaving behind a swath ot. sprayabout 50 feet in width. Its rotors pro­vide motive for diUusing dust or spray.

All important in the battle o[ theforest t.ire is TIME. A helicopter cantransport three fire fighters and pilot tothe scene or a fire ill a (raction of thetime otherwise required in even rea­sonabl)' accessible areas. It not only re­duces time of fighters getting to fire,but assures their arrival fresh for work.

In the location of logging roads, de­termination of logs to be rearEd in alog drive, deli\'ery of supplies to look­out, transportation of supervisory per­sonnel [rom one camp to another, andother similar purposes (according toMr. Hay-Roe) the helicopter is virtuallya "magic carpet"-and perhaps it is.Crown Zellerbach purpOSeS to use ahelicopter to seed 3,500 acres ot forestland in Oregon and Washington ... the[orut service recently used a helicopterto make a muskrat house count on theBlackwater National Wildltte Refuge inMaryland (an area or 10,600 acres whereprevious counts had taken tour to slxweeks on foot-same count made by airin 21f.: hours of actual flying time).

Bell Aircraft Corpn. is so certain thehelicopter will win its spurs as an in­strument ot. value in woodlands opera­tions that it has announced one modelof a helicopter now under quantity pro­duction will be modified to especiallysuit woodlands requirements.

The helicopt~, ugly duckling o[ theair .....hich looks like nothing quite somuch as an uprooted windmill gone be­serk. is destined to find wide use inwoods operations stoutly maintains oneor its champ)on.l, :k~eth. ij~ftoe ot.Bell Aircrart: s:;qri)·~lI\loJ\.', :', ',,"

OUlst.noding amo~g'qualitles "or"move­ment:cZl~te~i~Uc~r-"t~h'hdlO::tlPt~,u'f ,",5a) thi J1O'I+'er \G set,\,c !,lmolt: W,1;)qiq\: :In a woodlands property' fltroug1mlJl ','the seasons Ot,'Il1~'~\~and,'.vnb :Ooats,Lo land on ~...j1t&r'.o, J.8nq, iiei ~.;pnp orsnow, (b) ability to rJ'}' ltl \;"eadter con-

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ests Products Research Society went PFIchief engineer R. T. Bowling and en­gineer Harold White on March 19th.REtUl'ning Irom meeting plans called fora stop at Madison, Wisconsin to tourlaboratol'y of U,S. Forest Service. Bow­ling to appear on program and delivera paper on wood utilization possibilitieswith briquetting machines. Mmy notedengineers and scientists scheduled bySociety for appearance on three-dayprogram.

From Hunt Taylor to C. L. Billingscame clipping which asked question­"What kind of wood is Charlie Mc­Carthy's head made of?"-Answer given-White Pine.

From formel' Potlatch Unit employeeWarren Browning was received letter­"My address has changed a little in thelast month or two. I have been pro­moted to Private First Class but amstill in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Wish Iwas back in Idaho but guess I can't comehome ror awhile yet ... they are shorton ambulance drivers and I'm a goodone (even if I say so myseli)."

Participating in program of Inter­mountain Logging Congress in Spokaneas leader of panel on use ot. Osgoodloaders was PFl logging superintend­ent (Bovill side), Joe Parker. Others inattendlloce!rom compan)' indudfd E. C.Rettig, Harry Rooney, Howard Brad­bury, L. K. Edleblute, R. W. Olin, JohnHuU, Ole Hemley, Bill Greib, DonCleveland. Emmett Bingham and RayBaker.

ellS but management of tournament wasgood example of how Dot to run a tour­nament, believed Lewiston to be t.ar thebest team io the A tournament and thatKendrick would ordinarily ha\'e won Btournament but were badly oU theirgame.

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Marth came Fred Dicus, PFI engineerwith some interesting stories o[ South.o\merican Industry . . . their under­standing ot. things mechanical is prac­l1eally nil ... their custom o[ demand­Ing right-of-way at intersections byblowing the homs of their autos and thenplowing through was nerve racking .their food good. abundant and hard onthe waist line.

Ass't. Manager Otto Leuschel and Mrs.Leuschel returned home trom a V2ca­tion in California in late March , ..journeying through Oregon, Calit.ornia,Nevada and Utah, found poor roads onlyIn Idaho ... went through drought areain CaIilornia, cattle looked bad, waterlow in aU reservoirs, pOwer rationed,San Francisco blacked out at night('!I~ch like war time) to save elec­tricity ... timed return home through~telJo to pel:lIlit attendance at statelH.UI:etbaU tournament where son Ottoplayed on state championship team ...thought caliber ot play to be mu\'el-

PFl boss C. L. Billings and Mrs. Bill­ings returned home in early March fromNew York and a meeting o[ the Amer­Ican Pulp & Paper Association, .... re­ported a good trip, an interesting meet­ing of the Association and of the ForestIndustries Information Committee ...found, a surprising knowledge of for­estry among ordinary business people inattendance, ... heard, Betty Bbllinger(Le.....iston) sing in Metropolitan OperaContest.... encounterE:d, bad weatherthroughout the trip ... le:lrned, busi­ness is expected to be at least as goodIn lhe East during !irst three quarterscf 1948 as during like period 1947 ...viSited. son Rick (v.>ith Phillip Morrisadvertising department, New York).

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waills :-o{.n«;UI':or- b",.d~l_ a~DCU"C setlinl rOllJl.Q Ol>t a I>ur Ideal campIaYD1le.· Dmner lIel! had JUt sound".

among the individual camps ha.been at Camp 42, Bovill. under di·rection of Les Mallory and at Cam~59. Meadow Creek out of Head.quarters. under direction of EanRit2heimer. 11allorY'5 camp is I

truck chance to a !'iding at Bo\"iUwhile Ritzheimer's skidding is di·rectly to one or another of severallandings along the rails. In Jan.uary Camp 42's production was 2,.564,420 feet and in Februar;y jump­ed to 4,342,380 feet. Camp 59 got3,190.560 feet in January and .1,_285,310 in February.

42-BOVILLCampsite is to the east of tht

shops in a dearing flanked on asides by young pines, about thretquarters of a--mile from town. Thtbuilding3 are comparatively ne..and portable. Campsite ground i>flat which made possible easy ar­rangement of bunkhouses, cook·shack, etc., with m.inimum of ef·fort. Board walks. well above thtsomewhat marshy ground of thrdearing connect ramp buildings.The setting is very attractive an~

well rounds out a near ideal camplayout.

Boss man Les Mallory has 1)e(!nin the logging business a long timt... knows it inside and out and thethings necessary to efficient opera·tion of a camp--but, in namin,the things which account for goodproduction of logs, failed to men·tion one asset on which it's hard toattach a price tag but which Lw

none the less real-a personalityfar on the plus side. instantly evi·dent in an easy, effortless smilt... the sort of thing that keeps I

supervisor calm and thinking wheathings--go-wrong and caphlTes loy·alties nothing else can earn. Thaiis among Nature's endowments of

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,Uebl-Bewley Cnmp. usls......tlO Manor]' (sklddlne bOU) swab­hlnl on some of th~ cby andmild which stop~d lJ"IIcklnelate In the rnonlb. Prlor to wo.lI·Inl" ...101 rFl Dewl~y work" forlUte hlehwa)' department andfor WlJIton Lumber Compans asa camp --...onl oOler JobsWU drl,-~ 10rtlD.iln On drl"edo.."n C_llr d·A.l~n~ rl,·u. OOlerU$l.sant, Ol~ llae~n ( ...... boSS)couldn't b~ found at p1ct\1reaklne tilDe.

Lelt_wlnelne a ble on~ aboardat OI~ Camp 42 Iaudlne, Eachtrock hallis OI~ equl>'al~nt of arail carload .. U1at f:nlJr~ load I'lransf~rred (a Stick al a (jm~) 10rall flat. Th~ loader Is a lasolln~

pow~r" O'lood obtained fromWar S1:Irplu.. It came from Sor­mandy where It was us~d In car·co handline ••• bas wider hameOlan oOl~r O'eoo<1' IlSf:d b)· PFIand mor~ power. Handles IoeswlOl use.

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awaiting the arrival of flat carsfor loading.

During the past ninety days longtrainloads of logs have carried suf­ficient scale, woods to mill, to e..X­cite the envy of even sueh legend·aTy characters as fabulous old PaulBum'an and Babe, the big blue ox.Which, is quite something, if theword-of-mouth versions (some ofwhich have been set in print) ofBunyan's prowess, given alongabout the hour for swallowing thebal" towel, 01" some time after thethird week of a winter-length boutwith spirits fermenti .. , . meananything.

FIVE AND THREEOn the Clearwater side five

camps have been at work, whilethree have operated on the Pot·latch side. Production has beengood at every camp with a total of15,915,280 feet brought out- by theClearwater camps in February and10.638,750 feet credited to the Pot­latch camps. Heaviest production

L~... Mallo.).. ~2 PUSlI_ A loner "'hoknows all the trlcks 01 OI~ trad~, In_c1lldlllj: U1~ valll~ of a 100d kltch~ncrew IllId lood fO)Od. Perhaps OIU'swhy he'a sampUnl thlnes a bit-Just tobe ,"r~_

lowing all this, if the push can getthe operation into motion and allthe respective elements of produc·tion meshing in such fashion as tohold waste motion and lost time tobare minimums, he stands a goodchance of emerging with betterthan average production and bet­ter than average costs.

Assistant foreman under Mal­lory is Dewley Cramp, skiddingboss. The saw boss job is held downby Ole Hagen.

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PUSH Mallory and it didn't neednaming to attract attention.

Preparation far in advance ofactual logging is the key to goodproduction according to Les. Roadsmust be carefully laid out and built,landings likewise, number of trucksmust be balanced against length ofhaul, number of saw gangs, skid·ding cats, etc ... everyday mattersfor an old head in the logging busi.ness. Then there is the matter ofassembling good men to operate thetools of production and the selec·Hon of supervisory personnel to as­sist the top push is perhaps themost important thing of all. Fol.

AJI enrlneer, RItT.heimer reUes upon rna~ to keep pletun. htlore blm:'"......oiII:iiI.f ~:lJJlp$ lorrinc. Maps show area eul, Io<:at.lon of roads. natural bnd.IlIJ,rks. streams, strips marked OUt tor s:awlnc, ete_ Fastened on a hlDce·like arrancement to bunkh01l$e ....1'11 maP5 ate :attached to pl)...·ood~ttU much 11I<e paces lo a book-are kepl current by nl,bUy posUnCs.

Al rI~ht and rradln, trom lett to r1t:bl :are £d Swanson, S9 saw boss;LouIe Oroen. S9 .klddlD, bon and ftlahelmer, the PUS II. The Iround",unlll frozen except In spots but mud wu berlonlDI to show in late~I.rch. A\-eraee number of lor5 per day for camp durlnl 68 da)-s wasll.l-bluut day had ,Ix cats sklddllll.

1lt:1oo'll'-eUI d""l In as man>- as twentY 101' per trip, sometimes up­1I'&rd of thai number_ Cre... of ~ohn Thomas, John Louko and WaltADdU$OD. 'klddlnl a,-etare distance ot I$M feel, ha"e .yetated 21%Itp per U)' since ~1.rch 3_

&tcbl-Flrst day', sklddinl of lonc·lenrlb lorl wllb two cau was SUItofl'el at"_ Po..'er laW was used on b..Ddln! -to buck to leneth and powersatrS In wood' were used to feU, On land nl sawyers: Gu' Swanson andl.I!O Ibcxykowske (checkered shirt) h.ndled power $:I.w. prerer cas­olllle to electric In most respects. __ diSlike lone cord or tleetrlc S:lW.bleb relS lo Ibeir w.y-Ihey move U a half lrOt. Lalldln/,I Dot builtfor lone lOIS cause uw to pinch, IUIT.helmer has placed h J;h spou 10•lImlnate blnd-Iandlnrs should be crowned from one side toward theother.

.J1JD. Wilson c1urs: • road throu.cb :area to beloned. Tret:ll are pushed 10 one side by bull.dour and are unrooud. Rolled a.-ay fromroute Ihere is no burled timber and road sur·bee I, belter because or 110 soft spGu aswbtn powder exunsl\'e!J' used. Kittllelmerbas built '.1 miles of road In !:alit 38 <laYS andhas: road' for next year', oper;u.lous all built-Job Is done b}' two men on hu.lldour. bulllanr on culven work. plus follow up workto buck and skid limber knocked doWll bybulldo'ltr when bulldlnl '():Id .

are still rolling and we are anxiouslylooking forward to the day when we canshed our rubber boots and water re­pellent clolhing,

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of snow up where the saw gangs areworking and have been sawing and skid­ding at both Camp 54 and 56 locations.There are 80 men on the payroll.

tion . , . a car of .logs was derailed !IIthe middle of the high trestle at tiltjunction, loaders have broken down 0c­casionally, and the cats have requiredsome night work by the mechanics Wkeep them operating.

Not all Of the mishaps have happentdCAMP 59-MEADOW CREEK to machinery. A few have overtaken in--

Cold nights and warm days have pro- dividuals as, (or instance, Walt HollIS­vided us with some pretty fair logging by who started a week not long paslweather and our producuon re.l'lects with II nice new hat. Followed a roundthese factors plus the ef:forts of a very of the camps with Walt returning to&,ood exew. There is no denying, llow-~eadquarters-on..,Satur.daynight. Theever, that we can almost smell the mud- h.tt was one solid mud plaster, matcheddy weeks ahead. only by ~he rest of Mr. Hornsby's c1oth-

Electric lights and power overtook us ing.during the month and \.here is no one The snow is gradually disappearinghere to mourn the passing of the gas- and a few song birds are In evidence. aoline lights. U a poll were taken of sure sign o[ spring.Camp 59 employees it would certainly Trucks are still hauling logs fromrecord a 100 percent "Thank you" to Camp 62 to the 57 landing wi~ tJl(the men who installed the wiring and roads frozen hard enough to permit pas­back of them to the company tor ob_ sage o( logging trucks.tainrng necessary equipment. Pat ~eron and Lawrence Arneson ar!

surveymg a truck road towards themouth of Snake Creek,

Royce Cox is back home in Fleadquar­tel'S after surgery at the Sacred HeartHospital in Spokane, Knute Hove, tillresult of ulcers, has been in St, Joseph'SHospital, Lewiston. Fred Hansen, CatDP57 cat boss, injured by a falling tree isback borne [rom the hospital. Only otheraUliction seems to be the chronic COIl'"dition of Republican McKinnon wbokeeps hoping [or a Republican victorrand thinks there is good reason for be­lieving this year will see a RepubllcPlpresident elected. GenUeman Jack isD'sure- which one it will be though.

1I0lsrERI.n th~ reilltionsllip of one 10UInC clIor~

10 .nower We holster Is ~ lmportull nl­ur~. th~ eq"Olv.I~I'l 01 a b:tll>nc~ wh~el Ina ",alell.A~ Camp 42 one of the nul.n rUIOns for

a Imooth rennlne openl.lon II "Whl5tlln'"BlL! Balle)', rl~lIt. a veteran 1I0ister of IOm~forI,\' )'~ars of 101 loadInc and b}' liuc:rlp­Uon of l.on~lnl SUPHllllendenl Joe Puk_er. wllo Should know. "The but holsterIn the. business:'

Tile "",I115I1e." Is perhaps ,ood enOll(1IIdenl.lnc:atlon for Bill's "h~ueter and dll­position ••. eh~erful. aim and ~as)' COlnl.lie pulll and poshes le\'ers wltll a n»oothcoordlnallon or e)'e. hand lInd loot. lIndplacu a lo~ of lOllS a.board ears In anelrht-hour slIln. BlII has u~ed SlUm load­ers mOSI 01 Ihe time durlnr his }'ears ofholnlne bu~ Showed ills \'erSlltJllt}' Iansummu hy lakin&" o,'er a dluel poweredunit _ opel7lled II with Ihe Sllme. ease andefflelene}' wal hall alwa)'1 marked h.lswork,

The "Whistler" lives al So,'IIl-walks10 and trom work, aboul a mile and ahalf ~aell way, for exercise, Has a hObb}'­10adInr 10Cs, ,\ fa\'orlle., Sporl-loadInClop. Pb.n.o for Ule fUttlr_1O load SOmemore 10Cs-.all of "'hld> adds up to a ma.nInternled in loadln, lo(s "nil "tt}' rood.

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Important to any Iruck camp Is thema.lmenance of roads and Ed Pelerson,Made_man for Camp U. has c"'en cooduslst.ance to Camp 42' producUon. Ed be­can "'ork tor PFI In May of 193'1, lie Is anath'e ot Swede.n eomlnr to this counu'}'In his ho3·hood. llas a small farm nearllearJ' and tTa"e!s hack "nil. forth to workfrom lite farm each day.

Is nO nOVice 10 hl,hway work h,,,'lnl:spent several }'ut$ with Ule St.ate lIleh­Wal' Department and all of hll Ume ",IthI'~'I On road maintenance.

Keeplnc Of road In cood condliion II notalwayS an eas}' uuk with Itlch seemlnccontradictions as snow on ellber side ofthe rUd. but none Oil Ule road itself; asurf",ce fro~en and dUSty as In 11Im­rne.r.

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CAM]> 58-l\-tcCOl\t.4.S l\tEADOWRoad limits on the highway have re­

duced the size of the loads we can haulalthough our production is still prettygood. Production for the month will goover 3\.!.: million feet (we hope) with afull crew of 125 men at work. Alternate(reezing weather and then snows andthaws have plagued us but the trucks

CAIH]> 51-BREAh""FAST CREEKNothing very startling in the way of

news !rom this camp. We're all holdingour breath so to speak. wondering howmuch longer our roads will hold up,Everyone has a dillerent idea as towhen the breakup will eventually comeand i1 you can believe rumor, therehave been a few wagers in support ofdiffering opinions. Rain and winds haveoceasionally soflened. the roads 1.0 thepoint that we lost some time but eachthaw so far has been follOWEd by freez­ing weather and we're still hard atwork, March w111 prove a good producwtion month tor this camp.

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A (ew ot the points facing the southare bal'e and there Is little snow letthere now. The winter, it would seem, isabout on its last legs but forecastingv.'eather in this country is a risky pas­time.

Vern Olin, injured while operatingthe sky hook, had a further piece of badluck during \.he month and was struckby a log sliding down hill while he wasd01:ing out a road. "Result-a (racturedleg.

Production hes been good with theroads holding up and the toughest partof \.he skidding out of the hole £romReeds Creek is now linished..

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CAiUP 42-BOVILLThe election to determine bargaining

agent for PFl employees was held March7th and presiding OVCl' Camp 42's part ofthe election was Pat Walker of the Na­tional Labor Relations Board. Mr. Walk­er was nonc too well acquainted withour climate and not at all acquaintedwith Pres-to-logs. Finding the BlueRoom a bit pn the chilly side he chucked.four Pres-to-logs, 32 pounds or fuel, intothe Slove to wann the place a degree ortwo. Shortly there certainly was no lacko( wannt1l in the Blue Room. Successcrowned MI'. Walker's efforts far be­yond the desired. rise in temperature, somuch so that the heat from the stovecaused water in the drain pipe of anearby sink to boil and nearly meltedthe handle oU a dipper hanging on thewall a good ten feet way. Opinion hereis that 1\1;. Walker will likely rememberPres-to-logs for some time to come.

Our mer, Audrey L. Smith, enteredSt. Joseph Hospital at Lewiston March7th to undergo surgelj·. Near the end ofthe month was reported. well on theway to recovery and due to lea\'e thehospital in a few days, During his ab­sence Carl Lindstrom is handling thefiling job,

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CUT-UP PL..\-.""""], TAKING SHAPEThe new cut·up plant at Clearwater

is rapidly iaking shape in the old re­plant building. The new set-up willhouse three [rvington semi-automaticc.utou, saws, one gang ripsaw, a straighttine rIpsaw, one or two box factory typetable. ripsaws, a high speed moulder, anda 48 mcb sander. Hydraulic lifts, gravityrolls, power driven feed chains and belt.con\'eyors for !2st and easy operationwill be installed. Lift trucks will be used.to handle mataials.

Also in new equipment for the cut-upplant will be a Dieb1-Dosker electronicwide board gluemg machine with aux­iliary equipment consisting of a lumberconditioning dry kiln, two straight lineripsaws, live rolls, gravity rolls andhydraulic elevators tor handling lumber,a hog for grinding edgings, panel sizingsaw and panel cut all saw.

WORD OF ADVICE - beware theback·!wpper, for ten. to one he hopes tomake you cough up something.

first of the year Plant employees havecontributed between ~,500 and $5,000 intotal to the Polio fund, Red Cross, Com­munity Chest and Boys Clubs.

Roy Skwels, replant emplo,)'ee, is nowback. home after more than a month'sillness in 51. Joseph's Hospital.

The mill lost three hoUl'S Mondaymorning. March 22, when a bearing onthe deck cutoU saw burned out. Withlog inventory mounting and lumber in­ventory showing a tendency to slip inthe opposite direction, the pond, saw­milL stacker, unstacker and dry kilnscrews are to work Saturdays for eightweeks. Otber departments will be suI­ficientl)' manned to permit operationof the Saturday shift in the departmentsname.

Salvage of sunken logs in the millpond is under way with two divers onhand for the job, plus a lot of necessary.=.

Employee Bill Green, shipping office,one of the best known and liked fellowsaround the plant, became papa Bill mid­March. The natural tendency of the firsttime parent toward boastfulness foundexpression in a new and rather startlingdescription of the newly-born by theproud papa. With his chest out a footBill invited attention to the weight atbirth ot hi~ son-9 pounds 12 ounces,then added casually, "Big enough tostart eating hay." To date no one basasked 1m. Green if sbe approves theremark. ~ ~n

Prizes for the pitch tournament wereawarded March 25th with Tony Fulvio,grader, capturing top honors in the 12:00o'clock group; Harold Bruch, stacker,a.nd Curley Morrison. machine shop,tied for second; consolation prize wentto Van Ogden, time office (an Easterbasket). The 12:15 group winners wereMarty Martinson. loading dock, firstplace; Bob .~derson, loading dock, sec­ond place; and Joe Sldggn, planer con­solation prize. The first place wInner forth~ night shift was Herb Jenkins, planer,With Fred Moorehouse, unstacker, andJim Luther, box factory, tied for secondplace. Consolation prize went to BobMcKinley, stacker. The prizes werehams, 17 pounders to first place win­ners and 12 to 14 pound barns to secondplace winners.

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The three months' safety contest in­volVing groups headed by superintend­ents Andrew and AI'am and assistantshipping superintendent Cummerfordfound the Aram group in top spOt, Cum­merCord group in second place and An­drew's department in cellar pOsition atthe end of February. In accordance withrules of the contest, Mr. Andrew actedas Master of Ceremonies during a noon­hour quiz program between employeesof Aram's group and foremen selectedtrom Cummerford's gang. In the battleof wits the employee group triumphedwith employee Jess Mosher winning thejackpot award-a pair of safety shoes.Questions ranged between the extremesof "In what language was the firstAmerican Bible printed?" (Indian), and"What is an injured female?" (a hurtsIdrt).

In four fund-raising drives since the

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!.he father or a baby girl born the latterpart of February.

Our Credit Union is doing a bang upbusiness in both savings and loans. It iswell to remember !.hat here is a goodplace to put away a bit of sunshine forany rainy days that the future maybring.

A construction crew is at work on !.hecooling shed for the dry kilns. The shedwill protect lumber from sun and rain.

PFI professors Sheppard and Terlsonare holding classes on Tuesday and Wed­nesday in job instruction, job methods.etc. Attendance has been good and thereis a lively interest among foremen andkey personnel in this opportunity [orself-improvement.

Winner of our cribbage tournamentwas Axel Holmblad. For contest pur­poses those interested in cribbage weredivided into three groups and tbe win­ners of each group-Holmblad, Hah'orSe\'ertson and Roy Lindberg battled itout. Severtson and Lindberg finishedsecond and third respectively. Prizesfor the winners were Pres-to-Iogs oUer­ed by the company and cl'Xa cola do­nated by the Coca Cola Company otCoeur d'Alene.

There has been a hint of spring everynow and then between spells ot badweather. Just enough to cause horse­shoe pitching enthusiasts to begin sharp­ening up their pitching eyes for thenext horseshoe tournament.

RUTLEDGERutledge took to the air over Coeur

d'Alene radio station KVNl not longpast (allowing a breakdown in the plan­mg mill. Background to the occasionwas that on 8 Monday morning themotor driving the large planing millfan broke down. The repaired motor, it...:as said. would be returned Thursdayafternoon ot that week. Employees wereaetordingly instl'ucted to report for""<Irk on Friday morning. However, at.noon Wednesday management was in­formed the motor would be delivered tothe planer that afternoon, so, took tothe air, repeating several times duringthe afternoon and evening tbat the millwould operate tbe following morning.E\'ery employee reported back for workThursday instead of Friday as original­ly scheduled and this should be almostas satisfactory to KVNI as to the com­pan)' since it indicates a wide listeningaudience among Coeur d'Alene people.

The tug boat under construction onthe ground floor of the Rutledge saw­mill, is taking shape at a rapid pace.The ribs are in and planking is far""",.

Francis Dingler Is now papa Dingler,

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Guests of the Potlatch Foremen'sCouncil on March 16 were track CoachStanley Hisennan and football end coachPerrOn Shoemaker from the Universityof Idaho, along with Tony Knapp, Pot­latch Righ SChool coach and his footballsquad. Also present were several other!JlOrts fans of this neighborhood.

Coach Shoemaker outlined the Uni­rersil)"S football schedule and plans fornext rall A film of the Idaho-Utah foot­ball game played in Boise last Novem­ber was ron. providing good entertain­ment and a bit bettn understanding ofthe things that go into preparation forthe football that a Spe<:lalOT sees on thefield of play.

Coffee and doughnuts were served inthe High School's Home Economicsroom with Potlatch School Superintend­ent Bernard Hopwood in the roll ofmaster chef.

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average number skidded per dar­etc.

Restless and energetic he ge~

around fast, but relies upon skid·ding boss LouieOroen and saw bossEd Swanson to handle their reospective chores unaided, whichfrees him for road layout workand other tasks of supervisorycharacter. Ritz drives himself andexpects much of his men but isgenuinely attached to them and be­lieves absolutely that he has thebest crews in the woods-is willingto argue in their behalf when neces­sarY and well takes care of himselfin ~verbal jousts.FORMULA FOR PRODUCTION

Although the two camps canhardly be compared since one is atruck camp and the other a railcamp, there are certain fundamen·tals looking toward big productionof logs in which both foremen plateimplicit faith, a careful laying outof roads, much preparation in ad·vance of logging, a thorough, firsthand knowledge of the area to belogged (gained by close inspec­tion). adequate and good equip­ment, assembling of good crew$,incentive pay in the form of gyp­po work where possible, the shar­ing of responsibilities with assist·ants, and by no means last norleast ... plenty of good food, cook·ed well and served well. The for­mula works too--take a look at therecord.

Ldt ab(we--,lob pro,resslOD c:hart suc:h'" will be J'05ted In uc:h department.­aJld rlt:ht above Ule astiessor)' senlorlt)·board.

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camp is partially made up of railbunkhouses of indefinite age andas a consequence it has a less in­viting appearance than does Camp42 but functions equally well in thematter of getting out logs. Petpeeve of PUSH Ritzheimer is in­centive pay provided through gypowork and he firmly believes theonly way to cut costs and get outmore logs is to give those who mustdo the work an opportunity tomake more money by workingharder.

Always fond of maps, Ritzhei~

mer's war experience as an officer(major) in the engineers has add·ed to a natural respect for mapsand the information to be had fromthem if kept up to date. A hingedaffair, on the order of a giant sizenotebook, is attached to the wall ofhis bunl<house and provides spacefor several large size maps of thearea in which camp 59 is at work... road layout, portion logged,cost figures, contour of land, nat­ural landmarks. streams. etc.

If Ritzheimer "were not in theproduction end of PFI, he wouldmake a fine statistician. He has theengineer's love for figures and de­tail, plus an ex1;remely retentivemind for costs, footage skidded,average number of logs per loadskidded, average distance skidded,

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of preparatory work, careful build­ing of landings, roads, etc. His

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Charts tracing the line of job progression in the various departmenu of the plants have been, or will be. posted in each department.High purpose toward which the charts are aimed-(a) assurance toeach employee of an equal opportunity for advancement on basis oflength of service and ability to perfonn work, (b) a systematic meth­od. of training men for better jobs, (c)supervisor-employee interviews at reg·ular intervals, (d) uniform method forrating Job perfonnance, and ee) meth­ods lor helping employee with self-im­provement.

Two major questions were consideredin de,'eloping lines or progression-(1)does job provide necessary related ex­perience for job ahead and (2) doesjob require special training. Jobs fallinto one or the other or two classes­reqUired, or optional.

Required jobs are those indicated onlhe progression chart by a solid blackname around the job name. Men whodesire adv:1ncement must qualify bytaking these jobs in order. Optional jobs,indicaled by broken lines, are thosewhich the man concerned may take orpas:; up without interference withJUgright to advancemenL

ASSESSORYIn the role of assessory to the job

progression charts in each departmentare seniority boards, kept current bydepartment heads. to keep employeesaware of !Ob opportunities and theirsenioritJ.· position in relation to othermen within the department_ The boardalso serves to inform emplo)·ees of op­portunity for training ahead of job open­ings_

Shown on the board are a completelist of aU jobs in the department, ratesof pay. a complete list of all employeeswho ba"e worked in department o,-erthiny days in the order of their senior­ity and by the use of diUerent ooloredbuttons after each emplo)'ee's name isindicated job presently held, job qual­i£ied to hold. job he is training for, etc.

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