0nly The Squeal 0f The Saws and The Tilhine of The Knives Are Wasted

Long years ago a great packing house in Chicago announced to the rvorld that it had learned to utilize into something valuable every part of a hog except the squeal.

Ever since that, optimists in the lumber industry have visualized some futttre sarr'mill operation that could say the same thing about the product of the 1og. That day has arrived, and this is the story.

Remember the old, old tale about the rooster that rolled a big ostrich egg into the barnyard,, and said to the assernbled hens : "Girls, I did not come here to criticize, and I don't want to complain ; I just lvant to Shor.v you lvhat CAN BE DONE."

The following story is an object lesson and a sermon to the entire lumber manufactttring industry of the United States. For here, for the first time, is a sawmilla tremendously big sarvmill-that can truthfully say and proudly demonstrate that it translates everything that comes from the log into something of value, excepting only THE SQUEAL OF THE SAWS AND THtr WHINE OF THE PL.\NER KNIVES.

And the best demonstration of what this mill has accomplished lies in the fact that the tremendous refuse burner that was made an important unit of the mill operation some 77 years ago 'rvhen the mill was built, died long years ago from starvation, and u'as shut down to run no more. Where there is no refuse, there is no need for a refuse burner. Where there is no waste, there is nothing for a waste eliminator to eliminate. So this burner, 135 feet high and 50 feet in diameter and which cost a young fortune, just stands there, a silent reminder of rvhat great

This Huge Reluse Burner at Klamath Falls

Died ol Starvation

adrrancement has been tlade iu the scier.rce of lumlter tnan11facture in 17 years.

For this mighty sas-mill cuts fift1- thousand feet of Ponderosa Pine boards every hottr, yet leaves no refuse and no rvaste behind. No sat'dust, no shavings, no slabs, no trimmings, no bark-no nothing.

The mill is that of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, at Klamath Falls, Oregon. It rvas built in 1929, designecl and equipped especially for the manufacture of Ponderosa, and its rated production of '+00,000 feet of boards every eight-hour shift makes it one of the biggest mills ever built. To cut that much in a timber mill is quite a trick; to do it in a board mill is a miracle.

When the mill n'as built it rvould have been follr- uot to arrange for the disposition of a huge volume of refuse and rvaste materials, sttch as has als'ays been developed rvhen round logs rvere conr-erted into square-edged lutnber. So the big refuse burner li'as immediatell' an important unit. For years the fire inside the bttrner never u'ent out.

Then, step by step, thev began to scientifically utilize the sat'dttst, shavings, slabs, trimurings, edgings, etc., that had been going to the buruer. The nerr' units that finally accomplished their purpose o{ utilizing all rvaste \\'ere: a box factory, a lath mill, a "Pres-to-log" plant, and a giant hog. The net result is that today one of their big problems is finding enough refuse and rvaste left over after the rescue squads get through grabbing rvood, to fuel the great po\1'er plant that operates the mill.

The slabs, edgings, trimmings, etc., from the salvmill are clropped into a great conveyor just as they are in other tnills. This conveyor moves slowly enough so that every piece of rvood it contains can be examined, and every piece u'ith good lumber inside the bark, is pulled out and rescued. It takes a goodly crew of men to accomplish this rescue rvork. This stuff is fed through stripper ripping machines, and the good lvood cut out, leaving the bark to go back to the conveyor and thus to the hog rn'here it becomes fuel for the porver plant. But this is precious u'ood that is taken c.rlt. From it is made lath, pickets, rvindou' shade rollers, and variotrs other valuable items.

The lath mill is some unit, itself, employing 50 men. Thev make about 8,000,000 lath annually, and has utilized as high as 4,283,000 board leet of lumber in a single vear in this department alone.

The box factorv is a big babl', 2@ by 250 feet in size, a-nd tu'o stofies high, and in this place thev use practicallr. anything of any size in the shape of usable n'ood. They trsed lnrnber as thin as 1/12 of an inch in thickness, and find useful spots for bits of n'ood the size of a man's thumb. Short, checkecl, split, broken lumber all finds its rvay here, and is made into sornething u'orth n'hile. And rvhat little is left goes to the hog for fuel for the porver plant.

The "Pres-to-log" plant is equipped u-ith four specialllbuilt machines that take dr1- shavings from the planing mill and box factorl'and compress them into patented, compact, eight-pound u-ooden logs that are sold for fire lvood. This unit makes 1.+,000 of these dry, compressed wooden logs everv day. and this departn-rent is considered a highly successful one.

Evervthing that is left from mill, planer, and box factorl-, goes to a giant hog, where it is ground and chewed up into fuel for the 2,800 horsepor,r'er plant that runs the great sawmill institution. There is barely sufficient of this left now to keep the power plant going. There is nothing left to be bFrned or destroyed. So, years ago the big refuse burner closed down, and everything that comes from the Ponderosa Pine logs that go into that mill in such volume, is made into something valuable.

When the Klamath Falls mill started operations it rvas estimated that l5/o of the logs they cut went into refuse and waste. Today-nothing. Some record.

There is a further interesting angle to the story. From the great Weyerhaeuser timber holdings that stand back of this mill, they have laid out a 600,000 acre tree farm, from rvhich the timber is being harvested on a perpetual cropping basis under long-range forest management plans. They think they are growing fully as much timber as thel- are cutting. This great and modern plant may accomplish much in the future, but there is one thing it cannot-do; it cannot reduce its q'aste anr farther. "There just ain't none."

Log Supply Increcsing

The Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association, H. -|. Cox, secretary-manager, reported under date of November 25, that a birds-eye survey and telephone query of mills, irrespective of size, indicates a larger supply of logs than has existed for many years. Infortnation from reliable sources indicates a log inventorl- in the Willamette and Columbia River districts of over 300 million feet, log scale, according to the report.

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A New Year's Wish: To awaken each 'morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clear mind; to hold ever before m€, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose to which I am working; to meet rnen and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart, to be gentle and kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with the weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done; this is how I desire to lvaste wisely my days.-Thomas Dreier. ***

A very Happy and Peaceful New Year to all our friends; and, as Tiny Tim remarked: "God bless us every one."

Oh. be thou blest with all that Heaven can send; Long health, long youth, long pleasure, And a friend.

Work thou for pleasure-paint

The thing thou lovest, though

Who works for glory, Who works for mone

Work for work's sake

That these things ng or carve all the goal; his very soul; it may bebe added unto thee.

American freedom and paralyze its prosperity, I would concentrate on three aims which ultimately will reduce any country to serfdom. First, I would foment strikes and create just as much industrial confusion as possible. Second, I would scatter biased propaganda, misrepresenting business men and destroying faith in business. I would try to prove Private Enterprise a failure. Third, I would boost all wasteful appropriation bills in Congress and teach people to expect something for nothing from Government; this to weaken the nation's financial structure. The$e three activities, carried on persistently and long enough, will wreck any Democracy; any Republic."

Listened to a speaker of flaming eloquence the other day. Unusual fellow. Colonel Wm. N. Hensley, a youngster who got his breast covered with medals during the war by dropping plenty bombs'on Tokyo and other places. Came home and ran for District Attorney in his home tow,n, and got elected. And right now he is making speeches warning his fellow Americans that in his opinion the battle we have facing us against mad ideologies that would take over the earth and destroy democracy, is a much sterner and more dangerous battle than the one in which we beat the Germans and Japs. And w hear him tell it, American to line up coun- iand says that those are mugwumps; fence with his eny or pooh-pooh being one who sits on bne side and his wump and does nolhing. high the ***

-Kenvon Cox.

"There was a dream that men would dom with it afterwards.

day speak the thoughts of their own choosing. was a hope that at evening, uncould speak to his prayerstrength, youthful it so. Now that same Arnerica is the prayer of the world. Our freedom. its Our strength, its hope. Our swift race against time, prayers. We rnust not fail the world now. We m not fail to share our freesinging, keep working, and fight for America t<tF*

Emmet Moore.

'IF I WERE A COMMUNIST," said George S. Benson, president of Harding College, "trying to destroy

New Year opens on dramatic situations, over the world in general, and here in the United States in particular. We have just witnessed a spectacular duel between John L. Lewis and President Truman. Lewis lost his first battle of the kind. He had a one hundred per cent winning record against Roosevelt. What Truman did to John L. will loom larger as time passes. The general facts are well known. What is not so well known is the apparent truth that during the last week before Le#is pulled down his flag in unconditional surrender, he had been making frantic efforts to settle the strike. All he asked was to have the court action withdrawn. But, sensing that Lewis was in desperate straits, Truman stood firm and refused all cotnpromises. And Lewis quit. Well for him that he did! With cold and hunger and great desolation rapidly approaching the American people, his personal position would soon have become a most serious one.

And his economic situation was worse. Had the strike continued and the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decisions, the Lewis union and its thirteen million dollar war chest could have been wiped out at the rate of $250,000 a day. Lewis was in a jam that got tighter and more dangerous every day. And the man that beat him to his unwilling knees was the little man from Missouri. Biggest trouble I find with Truman is he makes me change my mind about him so often I had finished cussing him roundly for issuing passports abroad-over the protest of Secretary of State Byrnes-to a problem child named Elliott, when he throws this Lewis for a loss, to win my praise again. Wish he'd stay on one side of the fence for a while.

With the coal famin" ;;;"d for months, the next big thing is the coming Congress. With a nation completely overrun with dangerous and hurtful strikes, even the faintest-hearted realizes that something must be done about labor legislation. The air is filled with suggestions, threats, etc. What form needed legislation should take is the question more generally discussed than any other right now. Should it be punitive, or corrective?

Corrective, of couise. J""i*l legislation, even in times of stress like we have just gone through, should never be indulged.in. It's so very simple. Atl in the world we need to do is pass legislation that makes all citizens equal under the law again, just as they used to be before the New Deal habit of openly trading power.and authority for votes, became a governmental pastime. Then enforce all the laws. A few weeks ago our entire economic structure and na- tional w'elfare were seriously endangered by the action of one man. Surely the first thing we should do is to so legislate that no man or rnen could ever place us in such jeop ardy again. ff we don't do that, we don't deserve freedom, and peaceful prosperity.

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It seems unreasonable that Americans would object to the simple philosophy of making all citizens equal under the law and the Constitution. But when such legislation develops it wiU be attacked as savagely as though it sougiht to deprive men of their liberties, rather than seeking to return to all nren their Constitutional rights. Something must be done hbout the Wagner Act. That Act is in efieci a poisoned dirk driven into the vitals of this nation, creating a formidable barrier between employer and employee in a land that has long boasted of the eqrdily of its citizens. Under that Act the employee has been placed in a class in no wise amenable to the laws that govbrn the employer. A rank outsider can visit an industrial plant, argue his case with every employee, drive sound trucks up and down, make speeches to the workers wheneved and whereever he pleases. But if the owner of the plant speaks a word of advice into the ears of an employee, he has broken the law of the land. Is that fair? Is it American?

There is no mystery surroundin! the injustices of laboremployer relations as they now exist. There are strikes on every hand and on every hand more are prornised and threatened. The law provides for "peaceful picketing," yet winks at conditions at struck plants that stop not even at

Greetings and Best Wishes!

As the year 1947 beghs we look bcck crnd recqll the many happy relctions with our business friends, crnd we hope sincerely that the New Yecr crnd luture yecrs will be prosperous Ior them.

Nineteen Forty-Serzen and The Eufure

We look lorward with contidence to the coming yecr, trnd luture yecrs, cnd cnticipcrte the continucnce oI those plecrscnt relctionships which hcve exirsted lor so many years.

riot and anarchy. Blood flows, weapons clash, clubs'swing' officers fight hand to hand with mobs, bombs are thrown, every sort of disorder develops, all under the legal title of "peaceful picketing." It should be easy for right-thinking men on both sides of the fence to agree that such conditions are wrong; and change*,nt3

Let us not pass laws aimed at John L. Lewis. But rather let us formulate laws that will deprive any man of such dangerous powers. Let us not aim laws at Petrillo. But rather let us pass legislation that will remove all unrighteous and unconstitutional authority from any Petrillo. Let us legislate ourselves back to the good old American way of life, with equal chance and opportunity and justice for every man regardless of his affiliation. I received a wire the other day from W. H. Upson asking permission to use our New Year editorial of one year ago, saying that he thought it most timely right now. And here is what that editorialsaid: * * {<

"Let's turn back. Back to those good and safe and sane days when the survival of the fittest was the test of real men and women. Back to those days when the best man got the best pay. Back to those times when the man who could PRODUCE was given proper rank over those who could not. Back to those days when he who served best prospered most. Back to the days before ambition to POSSESS had outstripped the willingness to earn. Back to those days when EFFICIENCY was the rule by which every man was judged and paid. Back to the days when a man's home was HIS home, a man's dollar was HIS dollar, a man's business was HIS business to do with as he saw fit. Back to those days when every man outside of prison respected this 'government, and officials-safe behind public opinion-enforced that respect.

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"Back to those days when no man or aggregation of men, representing anyone or anything, DARED say to our govslnrnsnf-'lou MUST DO OUR WILL OR ELSE.'

Back to those days, please God, that every decent citizen of this land is waiting for, when the rights of ALL the people will again become the single law of the. land, and when men with hearts of oak will again hold honored office, possessed of the bowels to say to those who approach with DEMANDS-'Show us first that what you desire is for the honor and glory of ALL the people, or GET OUT AND DON'T COME BACK !' THAT was once the test. THAT must become the test again if this nation is to stand. Clap the heavy hand of the law UPON THE SHOULDER OF EVERY MAN WHO THREATENS THE PUBLIC WELFARE, regardless of whether he represents man or devil, and the law will regain its RESPECT' and the land its HERITAGE. That is our New Year's wish. Let's turn back !"

There is a saying going the rounds that nothing is wrorig with this country that going back to work won't cure. True as gospel, that remark ! But what signs do you see, dear brother, that we're going back?

Jimmy Walker, New York's colorful ex-Mayor, died the other day. The newspapers and columnists carried reams concerning his life, and particularly his famous wisecrabks and uttered philosophies. But his one remark that should never die, was: "Nobody ever asked the Unknown Soldier about his religion."

Automatic Slittinq Mcrchinei For Light Construction Boards

A new, automatic slitting machine for all types of expansion joints and light construction board was annottnced ty Keystone Asphalt Products Company, Chicago.

Useful for lumber yards or building supply organizations this unit easily plugged in and operated by one mau cuts fibre boards, light building boards and expansion joint materials up to 1t/r" in thickness. Forward ancl reverse operation permits cutting in both directions.

Purchcrses Cobbs d Mitchell Properties At Vcrlsetz, Oregon

Valsetz Lumber Co. has purchased the sal-mill at Valsetz, Ore., and other properties of the Cobbs & I\Iitchell Co. and the W. W. Mitchell Co. in that area, according to Herbert A. Templeton, president. Also purchased was the capital stock of \ralley & Siletz Railroad Co. rvhich operates 41 miles of common carrier road froru \ralsetz to Independence. Price was not disclosed.

Mr. Templeton estimated that the 30,000 acres of timber and cut-over land acquired in the sale vi.ill provide for full operation of the mill for eight to ten years. It has been cutting at rate of about 50 million feet a year. Nfuch of the cut-over land has young grorvth s.hich rvill pror.ide future cuttings.

The Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., u'hich has been exclusive sales agent for Cobbs & Mitchell for 12 years, rvill continue in that relationship with Valsetz and with other firms it represents.

Valsetz has a paid-up capitalization of g2 million. Other ofificers, besides I\[r. Templeton, are: T. F. Eckstrom, vice president; James Bryson, secretary-treasurer; Hall Templeton, Ralph M. Rounds and Fred I\I. Roberts, directors.

Stcnton Employees Help ttNRRA

"This year u'ith the hunger and suffering in all the countries of Europe and Asia \4:e are going to give the money rve would normally spend for a Christmas party for our girls to the needy families of the world,,, so declared Mrs. Lillian Swafford, vice-president, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc. of Los Angeles.

Each employee of the lumber firm, both men and women, are sending toys to the homeless children instead of exchanging gifts as they have done in the past. .,We are postive this year it will be best to take care of the needy," declared Mrs. Su'afford in mapping a carnpaign to help make the kids happy this Yuletide season.

Moves Office

The office of the'C. Ganahl Lumber Company is now located at its yard at l9l2 S. Olive Street, Los Angeles Z. The telephone number is PRospect 4006.

Harry B. Gamerston. of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Gamerston spent the Christmas holiday in Los Angeles.