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The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reports that the employment of women in its member mills has been steadily increasing for the past two years, due to man shortage, until today the total number of employees of these mills is ten to fifteen per cent women.

The greater number of these women are employed in planing mills, taking the lighter .items from the planers, sorting to lengths, bundling, marking, etc. They are appearing more and more frequently in other jobs, even in: cluding the putling of the lighter items from the green chains. Col. W. B. Greeley tells about seeing a slip of a girl at one sawmill operating the tongs that move clear cants to the rolls for the gang-saw. But he says the prize thing he has so far seen along that line was a strapping young woman over six feet in height and powerfully built, sorting logs in a mill pond and poling them into position for the jackJadder to take them to the mill. She was capable of handling any log that came along. The prevailing report from the Fir mills on women workers is

Lumbenrrcrn's Son Sp-e-nds t8 Days in Lilebocrt

It was a grand and glorious feeling for Herbert B. Cooper, Jr. when with other survivors of a torpedoed Liberty ship he saw a rescue plane after spending 18 days in a lifeboat on the Indian ocean.

Herbert, 19, son of Herbert B. Cooper of the Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, and nephew of Wilfred T. Cooper, Cooper-spalding Lumber Co., Los Angeles, graduated from high school in 1941, attended Stanford University for a year, and trained for two months at San Mateo as a marine cadet before going to sea. His ship was sunk by a German torpedo. Lifeboats were launched in five minutes and only three members of the crew were lost.

Now on survivors' leave, Herbert is eager to get back to his two months' sea duty and eight months' academy training that will give him his commission and the opportunity for further service.

favorable. They stand the work surprisingly well and learn the requirements of their jobs very quickly.

In the Western Pine mills the employment of women varies a great deal. Some mills report less than one per cent of their employees women, while others, with large box and planer operations report as much aS ten per cent women. They are employed mostly in the planing mills, box factories, moulding plants, etc., where the lifting is in keeping with their abilities, but some mills report a few women working on heavier jobs both in and out of the sawmill units, such as taking lumber from chains and machines, and even working around the headrigs.

The California Redwood Association reports a total of about 650 women employed in its member mills at the present time. Several of the larger plants with factories and remanufacturing plants where there are plenty of light jobs that women can do, are the chief employers of female labor. The number continually grows, however, as the manpowef emergency grows.

Peter Stone Meets With Cclilornicr Decler Groups

Peter Stone, of Washington, the OPA lumber authority, held two meetings of late with lumber dealers in California.

On Friday, Septimber 24, he met with the officers and directors of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, in San Francisco.

On Saturday, the 25th, he met with a selected committee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, in Los Angeles.

Grcrndlcther Twice in 3 Weeks

Hugh M. Handley, sales manager, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently became a grandfather twice inside of three weeks, when baby boys arrived at the homes of his daughter, Mrs. Verne Rucker, and his son, Warren. His daughter's boy was born on Mr. and Mrs. Handley's 36th wedding anniversary.

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