The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1947, Page 3

a) ‘with the monosyllabic stillness of _a poker game that was drawing THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 6 FTER their talk in the woods Doug and Norway returned to the mess shack. It was blue with tobacco fumes and quiet to a close. Norway picked up an accordian and squeezed out the lively rhythm of a schottische and Ollie came in from the kitchen and bellowed out the tune. A couple of loggers who had been kibitzing began to dance together. The sight always struck Doug as an odd one though he had seen it fit often enough in logging camps and even in small lumber towns where there were never an equal number of women to go around. As timber outfits went, the Lar- son’s was a small one.... About sixty men comprised it and half of them were married. Their families lived in the small log and clapboard houses border- ing the Inlet. Doug studied the group in the mess shack carefully, trying to detect some characteristic of per- sonality or appearance that was alien to the average logger and knowing all the time that it was a futile search. After all a crook didn’t advertise and the deepest- dyed trouble-maker usually took care to wear a deceitful guise. These men were like loggers the world over—strong, sturdy, hard-working, hard-swearing, hard-drinking. Most of them lived for the moment, felling trees until their muscles ached them, spending their week’s pay in one grand splurge on a Satur- day night in town. That night amid the snores of his bunk mates, Doug lay awake thinking the situation over.. He seemed to have made progress of a sort yet really he had learned nothing new. Norway had con- firmed only-what old J. W. Slo- cum had suspected—someone was out to wreck the Larson outfit. The motive—vengeance, malice or profit, was not clear. He was awakened by Norway’s big hand shaking him as though he were a five-year-old pine sap- ling. “Hey you, Doug! You vant 2 ee ar ee Announce Program’ For Music Recital. At USO Tomorrow The Jackson Square V.S.O.’s | Little Theatre Group will pre-! sent a musical recital, “Music to: Remember”, featuring some of | the outstanding young artists of | the island city, tomorrow ‘even-: ing. j A varied program has been pre- pared. All persons interested in semi-classical and classical music | are advised to attend. { The program follows. Vocal Numbers “With A Song In My Heart”, | by Emma Neal Ayala, mezzo so- | prano. , “Without A Song”, “At Balalika”, Louis Anastasio, U. S. Navv Baritone. ; a The | ‘ ‘ ‘ ' Barbara Mae Buckley. Piano : “Fantasie Impromptu” (Chopin) | by Beatrice- Moreno. \ Vocal Numbers “Jealousy”, by Dianne Ohmie. “Young Is My Heart Alone”, “The Man I Love”, by Emma Neal Ayala. Piano “Malauena” (by special re- quest) Beatrice Moreno. Vocal Vocal by Dianne Ohmie. Patio settins and arrange- ments, Frank Adams and Gerry Pinder. Ushers, Vivian Garcia, Carmen De Armas, Alice De Armas and Oneida Ramos. Refreshments, Eileen Coughlin, NCCS Area Direetor. Nee er ee S](TROUBLE SHOOTER BY CAMERON DOCKERY Invitations, Marian Pickens and | Eloise Hinger. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) { i i Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Portland, Oreg., once retired, born at Trinway, Ohio, 76 years ago. Leroy A. Lincoln, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., bern in New York, 67 vears ago. Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild. of New York University, eminent social scientist emeritus, born at | : Dundee, Ill., 67 years ago. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. McDonnell, Roman Catholic aux- iliary bishop of New York, na- tional director of the Society for the Propogation of the Faith, born in New York City, 53 years ago. Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago, born in Russia, 54 years ago. ' James P. Warburg of New York, banker-author, onetime deputy director of the OWI, born in Germany, 51 years ago. Qucius B. Manning of Chicago, manufacturer, born at Wash., 53 years ago. Two new types of teaching cer- “‘sates—the post graduate and authey anced post graduate, were tue to’ iss teachars ssued ‘”’ to S a te: Tacoma, | sed by the 1947 Legisla- , Florida AP Newsfeatures to sleep through your firs’ day of vork? Get up—Ollie fix us gude breakfas’ to get us started.” ‘Te little cook was already _* beating the triangle of railroad iron outside the mess shack when Doug finished lacing up his steel- caulked boots and felt for the tra- ditional whetstone every logger carries. Half an hour later trucks were taking them up a road bulldozed out of the timber. Doug looked around for signs of a logging train track but found none. He turned to ada a question in his eyes. “How you get them to the Snake them out with a tractor?” _The lines around the Scandina- vian’s small blue eyes crinkled. “Ve float them out,” he chuckled. Doug, thinking it a sample of Norway’s peculiar humor, thumped him playfully. “Yeah? Why not use a heliocopter?” “Heliocopter? Vat’s that? You think I make joke, yah?” “Yah.” Norway’s accent was contagious. “Don’t you?” “No. I tell you true.” Doug stared at him incredu- lously as Norway’s deep voice al- most drowned out the rumble of the trucks and the slapping swish f low-hanging branches beating against their sides. “Ve start logging new section today near the north boundary. There is small river there and dam on property of White Rapids, Co. They already log their section of land on river so they lease it to Larsons.” - Doug had never worked for a company that floated logs out and he was puzzled. “I don’t get it. There isn’t a river around here that wide.” “This one is not vide either. The. White Rapids Co. straighten and dredge it so that it is deep. It take two, three big logs to- gether though. Ve station loggers along the banks and pole the logs into center of stream. It carry them right down to mill” “You sound as though you thought it would work.” “Of course it vork—for another two months anyway. Then the stream shrink a little when the -_— snow stop melting in the Olym- pics—not so gude for logging. or Sven Larson has big order from Seattle he vant to get filled.” Under Hardin’s direction the men began clearing out the smal] usable trees so that they wouldn’t be splintered by the later falling of the big ones. Hemlock, which was abundant and for years had been regarded as a nuisance weed of the forests, was now in demand for plywood and was pulled out first with a crawler type tractor. Doug picked up his ax prepara- tory to working on a young fir when Hardin came over to him. . “I'm putting you on-one of the big ones, Andrews.” He pointed - to an enormous fir. “Start mak- ~~. an undercut.” oug had taken commands for five years but he resented the. tone of this one. This was no honor Hardin was singling him out for but a job that would blis- ter his uncalloused hands in noth- ing flat. He picked up his ax. “I help you, Doug. Ve tackle this one together,” Norway said. “I’ve another job for you, Little One,” Hardin corrected. “Take the power saw. ... You and Charlie work on that Sitka spruce over there.” ‘ Norway obeyed but not before he shot Doug a sympathetic grin which did not miss the boss log« ger’s eye. As Doug plodded up the slope to the big tree Hardin called after him, “Remember, Andrews, we fell our trees downhill.” ‘ Doug swore silently. Hardin was deliberately baiting him be-~ fore the others. Any logger knew it was unsafe to fell a tree uphill for fear it would slide down on the loggers later on! He made notches for springboards to stand on while he hacked into the tree for the undercut. By noon ‘his palms were raw and bleeding. He said nothing but Norway saw his hands as the two munched sand- wiches together. “That damn fool! This afterrioon I kelp you no matter vat he says! When ve get back to camp Ollie vill fix you yp with some chicken grease so your hands don’t hurt no more.” His usually placid fac was stormy. (To be continued) ; WILBUR MOBLEY OF MacCLENNY was top winner for the siate of Florida in a récent forestry contest conducted in’ Virginia, ‘North “Wanting You”, “My Hero”, by} Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama by the Future interested acencies. | Farmers of America in cooperation with the Southern Pulpwood | Conservation Association, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and other Young Mobley received a U. S. Government 30nd and an all-expense trip to the Virginia Forestry Training Camp | at Holiday Lake, Farmville, Virginia. ‘ gratulations from Governor W. M,. Tuck of Virginia, who made the : presenntation awards at a Kiwanis luncheon in Richmond, Virginia, | honoring twenty-four future farmers who won state and district | awards. District winners were given an all-expense trip to the Vir- ; ginia Forestry Training Camp. Left to right: G. B. Rice, vice-presi- — ' dent, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Norfolk, Va.; Col. Henry W. An. i derson, chairman of the board, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Rich- raond, Va.; Wilbur Mobley, state winner, MacClenny: Honorable W. | M. Tuck, governor, Commonwealth of Virginia; Earl Burnette, Dis- | trict winner, Sanderson; Herbert Dorcett, District winner, Branford, | and Wayne May, District winner, Vernon. 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