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company, was made last week
1IperiOl‘ court by Judge .l.
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tyufor seVeral years, alleges
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fgfiiim during the years 1937
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Silage Methods
Shown Tuesdayi
Now is your opportunity to ob—
serve a practice that will be most
valuable to you this year. Grass
stack silo. See it at the Liege]
Bros. farm near Dayton at 1:30
pm. Tuesday, February 23, ad-
vises County Agent Okerstrom.
Where conditions are such that
it can be used, the use of grass,
and clover in a stack or pit silo,
is a practice highly recommend-
ed. Besides the many advantages
iof this type of forage preserva—
1‘tion such as saving a crop that
imay otherwise be lost, preserva-
tion at the most nutritious stage,
cutting and filling as time per-
others, it has the added advan—
tage of not having to be cut with
a silage cutter. When equipment
is so scarce this is an important
3factor to be considered. '
'TO TACOMA
Mrs. Walter Daniels went to
‘Tacoma Sunday, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Martin, to
the capping of her daughter Mary
Louise Daniels, who is in train-
iing at the Tacoma General Hos-
‘ pital.
We 14% gala/litre flgwtd
In Shelton For .
Lucien LeLong
Colonial Dames
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On Uncle Sam,
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ENORTHWEST LOGGERS HAD HANDi
IN DELIVERING PRESENT TOi
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In 1943 get CHEVROLET DEALER SERVICE
Every M 011th!
Chevrolet dealers sorvico oil mokos of cars and lrucks.
Chevrolet dealers have had rho broodosl oxpprlonoo—
servicing millions of now and mod cor: and lrucla.
Chevrolet dealers have skilled, lroinod mechanics.
Chevrolet dealers have modern lools and equipment.
Chevrolet dealer: givo quolily sorvico at low cool.
bEALER TODAY
DQUARTERS FOR SERVICE ON A“. MAKES 0F CARS AND
ell ‘Chevrolet Company
=to start his alibiing.
GOERIN G ON N AZI’S CELEBRATION
(lay Ledger-News Tribune).
"Pardon interruption, Herr
Goering, but there is a little
matter of a present from the lum-
bet-jacks of the state of Wash-
ington which must be delivered
before you can make that speech
of lies to the German people."
That's what happened in Berlin
recently when the No.2 Nazi tried
Mosquito
bombers, latest and fastest planes
in the British airfleet, making
their first daylight raid into Ber-
mits, possibility of two crops, and 31in, stopped the top Nazi's speech
for one hour. ,
For over two years now, from
Washington mountains and hill-
sidesmgiant Sitka spruce, Noble
fir, Douglas fir and Western hem-
lock—«after careful selection and
intense care in milling, started on
their way to Germany, stopping
long enough in transit at British
aircraft plants to be shaped into
many parts of the mosquito bomb-
er and into parts for every other
British plane.
So it is every day in the North-
west woods. Best logs from the
great forests which cover our
western slopes from the Cascades
to the shores of the Pacific, are
marked as possible aircraft logs.
Then on to the mills in more than
one hundred communities. There
at the mill, the aircraft logs are
set out in the pond, run onto log
deck and then the game begins,
the game of getting the most pos-
sible aircraft lumber from every
log. It is no easy task. Aircraft
lumber comes only from the deep
clear portion of the log, right
under the bark layer and outside
the heart w00d.
Not every log will make air-
craft lumber. And even when a
log has been marked for possible
fine, clear and straight yellow
nuggets of the logs, only a piece
or two may ultimately get past
the strict inspection required.
About 12 per cent of logs out
show indication of making aircraft
grade. Of these about 10 per cent
make aircraft lumber. Which
means that less than 1 per cent
of the timber cut today has any
chance to join the air corps of
the British or American services.
Loggers in Ground Grows
For every flight of bombers that
carry their loads of destruction
arope, highly trained ground crews
are necessary. Loggers who sup-
ply Tacoma mills, and mills in
every Washington mill commun-
ity where aircraft lumber is cut,
are full-fledged members of the
ground forces of the RAF. They
start the vitally needed lumber on
its way to war in the air.
Getting out aircraft lumber
suitable to pass the rigid inspec-
tion requirements of the govern-
ment inspectors is no child’s play.
It has required an entirely new
technique in sawmilling. Costly
and slower production in mills be-
cause logs which showed evidence
of containing the valuable pieces
had to be handled more carefully
into Germany and occupied Eu-l
,tiest bombers and the tiny, fast-
. as—sound fighters.
i What is aircraft lumber? Re—
duced to simple terms, it is the
3 best clear lumber obtainable from
lspruce, hemlock, Noble fir and
iDouglas fir trees. It must be free
,from knots and blemishes. Above
‘all it must stand the "pick test"
‘ for strength of fibre. Best aircraft
ilumber has long, stringy looking
3 grain with high tensile strength.
,‘Inspectors test fiber with sharp-
pointed pick which they insert un-
der a few layers of the lumber and
ipry against it to determine
whether it has the necessary
“guts” to make aircraft.
Not Easy Job
Ask anybody in the sawmills
around Tacoma. where aircraft
lumber is being manufactured
how easy the job is. The sawyer,
edgerman, or re-sawyer will prob-
ably answer, “Plentytough, but it
is a job we’ve got to do to beat
the axis and we’re doing our best.”
They are doing their best, these
men in the woods and mills,
these men who operate the mills,
as is best evidenced by the state-
ment made last week in Portland
by Fred Bl‘undage, western log
and lumber administrator for the
,WPB. Said he:
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“Production of aircraft lumber'
!in the last quarter of 1942m-
creased five—fold over the same
iperiod in the second quarter of
the year . . . A real contribution
to the war effort has been made
{by the lumber industry in pro-
duction of Douglas fir aircraft
lumber, which last year went
largely to lend-lease, but demand
from domestic aircraft plants will
require an increased output
1943”
I .
I In the words of Colonel W. B.
, Greeley, secretary-manager of the
i West Coast Lumbermen’s associa-
tion, “The production of aircraft
; lumber is the most important job
' facing the lumber industry today,
and it is the duty of every mill
operator to see that he produces
his share." Total production fig-
ures required by our own aircraft
factories and those of our British
and Canadian allies is a military with the public acclaim ever
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SHELTON—MASON COUNTY JOQIENAL
The shortage of able men for the
skilled and rugged trades of the i
Douglas fir woods has produced a
new breed of big—timber whoppcrs, i
or tall tales. Or rather, a new char-
acter on which 1943 versions of Paul ,
Bunyan fables may be hung. I first
heard of him a month or so back,
but' it seems he had come alive a
spell earlier. Maybe you have heard
the same and have wondered
whether there might really be some
powerful man of the woods who
started the stories.
“Swing Jensen” is the name of the
mighty man, as I’ve heard it. One
informant sandwiched “Shift” into
the name, but that doesn’t apply
plausibly to a logger—it rings of the
shipyards. Of course Jensen may
also be a ship builder. It is such
items that need to be cleared up.
The truth must be known.
Anyhow, he is “Swing Jensen” to
this column. The common key to
his character in all the stories I’ve
heard is the prodigious reach of his
arms, and this powered with an urge
to get out logs for war that is akin
to the urge of the U. S. Marines to
kill Japs.
Lone Faller of the Fir .
Jensen also stands high—seven
feet, seven inches. But his reach is
eight feet, eight. Thus he is well
equipped to work as a lone timber
faller in the giant Douglas fir. He
notches undercuts with an ax in
each fist. Sawing, he stands at the
middle of a seven-foot, six-inch
he can reach most around the bole
of the usual spar.
Another account credits Swing
Jensen with keeping the works go-
ing in one snow when it ran' out of
Chokers—he’d just hook his wonder-
ful long arms around a log, lock feet
and legs in the rigging, and then
sail in with the mainline pull to the
landing. Of course it was downhill,
and no stumps or windfalls to jolt
him up.
Another time, when a cat driver
and his rigging man failed to show
up, Swing Jensen took out the trac-
tor and made a record haul—he
could reach back through the arch
and hook on a log without leaving
his seat.
The only trouble with Swing Jen-
sen is the way he works his reach
in the cookhouse. Loggers who claim
to have sat with him at meals vow
his reach is not eight feet, eight
inches—but twice as long.
How Tall Tales Grow . . .
Such are samples of the stories
about Swing Jensen. the man who
is making up for the shortage of
help in the woods. Doubtless there
are others much more amazing and
wonderful. There is a very real rea-
son for them. True loggers, men
with bark on them, make humor out
of their troubles, as soldiers do. And
the majority of the skilled and ex-
perienced men who have stuck to
the woods to get out timber for the
Army and Navy, have plenty of
trouble because their crews are
short. Often each man has to be a
man and a half to keep the logs
crosscut, spreads his arms, grabs a
handle in each hand, and saws fir
as powerfully as any team of timber
fallers ever heard of.
“It’s not only his reach and mus~
cle does the trick,” I’m told. “it‘s
his swing from the knees and hips.”
Swing Jensen’s reach also makes
him a prime substitute when his
outfit is short a high climber and
a spar tree has to be topped. He
doesn’t bother with a life rope until
he is up to the limbs, but climbs the
first 60‘ feet or so with hands alarm-—
booming to the landings and the
mills.
Out of similar conditions in the
pioneer logging of the Lake States
grew the Paul Bunyan stories. They
reflected the spirit of the pioneer
woodsman who met and conquered
giant obstacles.
Swing Jensen, mighty forest front
fighter, seems to be a 1943 reincar-
nation of Paul Bunyan. Does any
reader of this column know him?
iFurther facts on him should be
worth more space.
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the conifer family have silently
gone off to see action in the RAF
and RCAF. Now, they can go,
y re-
lsecret, but needs run into millions , emit is entitled t0, into the good
of feet each month.
i Airplane engineers, especially
Americans who were once preju-
diced against use of wood, now
are the best boosters for use of
wood in every part of the plane.
Wood is more easily worked than
metal,_and much less fragile. Take
the propellers as an example of
what wood Will do under fire and
iwhen the pressure is on. An RAF
pilot on tour of American plane
factories said: “We like props of
wood because they stand up. Much
of our flying is done from rough
fields in actual combat. When a
rock hits a metal prop it makes
a dent, the dent soon develops in-
to a. fatigue crack and at some un-
expected moment the metal prop
explodes. When a rock hits a
wooden prop, it makes a dent, but
so that each log was made to I that's the last you hear of it. No
yield the most possible number of fatigue crackS. no exploding prop
pieces of Firace. Air screw and Y
and YYY grades. Firace is the
champion of the aircraft family.
The air screw grade is stock for
most of the “props” or screws
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Phone 114
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-‘ pursuits,
' naissance,
' this wood comes from out here in
E Washington and Oregon. Best of
' all woods for aircraft is spruce,
weight ration.
when you may need it most."
Easier to Repair
The young RAF pilot had lots
more to say about wood. The
ground crews like the wood jobs,
he said, because when a bullet
pierces a wood, wing or wooden
fuselage, it makes a hole that as
often as not closes right up. At
best the small hole can be filled
in with a plastic wood of known
density, and polished in a jiffy.
I Not so with metal planes. Repair
E of bullet holes is almost a major
operations, takes lots of time. In a
fighting ship where balance is
everything and has a direct cor-
: relation to maneuverability, a few
. extra ounces of repair metal
might throw the plane off.
One-third the weight of all Brit-
ish aircraft, fighters, bombers,
transports and recon-
is wood and most of
with the highest strength-to-
Next is western
hemlock, then Noble fir and Doug-
las fir. Strength to weight is gov-
erning factor.
Among British ships built in
part or all from western American
woods shipped through Lend-
Lease are 41 different types. The
giant Stirlings, the Whitleys, Wel-
lingtons, Lancasters, Halifaxes,
Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mosquitos,
and scores‘of other popular and
‘ famed names in the RAF squad-
rons. The amount of lumber need-
‘ged to build and maintain this
i great fleet is tremendous. There
' is over 2,000 square feet of
Douglas fir veneer in every pro-‘
pellor blade. A four-motored Hali-
, fax for instance, takes 24,000 feet
of thin veneer for props alone.
Among American firms using
wood in their complete line of
i fighters, b o m b e r s, transports,
l di‘ve bombers and trainers are:
Boeing, North American, Douglas,
Fairchild, Stinson, Beach and
Langley, to mention only a few.
Every glider used in the vast, se-
lcret glider corps, is made 100 per
cent of wood, mostly from the
west. Nearly every trainer ship
for both the army and navy is
made in large part from wood.
The great flying forts which
have brought fame to this section,
.have many hundreds of feet of
western woods in their skillfully
constructed frames. Timm’s navy
trainer is plywood throughout,
and Boeing’s AT-15 last month
was wood in tail assembly and
wings, may even now be all-wood,
so fast does design changing go‘
on to use available materials. ,
The fastest plane in the world}
today is a fighter-bomber built!
by the British and made mostly
of wood. It needs no escort, for
no enemy plane can begin to
touch it for speed.
The lumber industry in this re-
gion has gone to war and many
of our finest specimens of tree-
hood have joined the air corps. For
the past three years now, some of
the more ambitious members of
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old U. S. Army, Navy and Mar-
ine air corps.
Journal Want-Ads—phone 100
TO‘VNSEND CLUB
Townsend Club No. will hold
its regular meeting Saturday
night at p. m. at the Moose
Hall. The feature of the evening
will be a talk by Rev. G. W. No-
,lan of Kelso, Wash.
i Tuberculosis
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iDavidson, was invited to
the national convention and give
a talk on the local program.
Another important result of the
local program is in the hospital,
Mrs. Buchanan explained. The tu-
berculosis rate among nurses in
most hospitals is quite high, she
stated, but because of the local
program of testing this danger is
leliminated in Shelton.
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Mrs. Buchanan pointed out that
'it is of the utmost importance to
find the carriers of the germs be-
fore they could spread them. She .
stated that the old theory that
! “everyone had tuberculosis germs”
has been discarded by medical au-
thorities now since tests have
shown that everyone doesn't have
the germs in their bodies.
From a purely economic view-
point the speaker pointed out that
every person who becomes actively
ill the
community $1000 a year to care
for, therefore it is economically
profitable to spend a few thous-
and dollars to educate against the
! costs
ldisease than many more thous-
with tuberculosis
ands to care for those who will
fall victims to it without the pro—
gram of education.
,Mrs. Buchanan.
highly praising the work of the
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concluded by
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ADMINISTRATRIX NAMED
Etta Angel was appointed ad-
f ministratrix of the estate of Rob—
ert L. Angel. deceased. in Super-
ior court, Saturday. Herbert G.
Angle, B. C. Alexander and Tom
White were named appraisers.
league for their fine seal sale,
which according to latest. reports
has nearly hit the $2,000 mark,
far over any previous effort.
{ CONCRETE PIPE
SEWER PIPE
CULVERT PIPE
DRAIN TILE
WELL CURB
For Quality and Economy
#SEE—
SHELTON
CONCRETE
PRODUCTS CO.
Seventh St. Bridge
PHONE 123
Have an ever present
reminder of those cute
baby days, to bring
back memories of their
childhood.
We suggest pictures
from three months on.
The farmers, the ranchers and the dairymen have
been the “forgotten men” from the standpoint of their
telling the world what they are doing for the war effort.
However, the dependence of us all upon them has been
forcibly brought home to us. One week without butter
and a Sunday dinner without meat has been compared by
some to the hardships endured by the boys fighting in
the Solomons.
The farmers, the ranchers and dairymen are and al-
ways will be individualists, never asking special favors
of anyone. They have always done a good job quietly.
Even now with the increased demands necessitated by
Lend-Lease requirements and the needs of our own armed
forces, in the face of labor shortage, they are doing a
good job. As a result we pride ourselves that our fight-
ig men are the best cared for in the world, and at home we
have yet
and thus
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IMPSGN' LOGGING COMPANY
S'HELTON AND- McCLEARY, WASHINGTON
to suffer.
furthering the war effort.
The Simpson Logging Company salutes the farmers,
the ranchers and the dairymen for doing their job well
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