Word: logger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longtime private secretary, made a long anticipated move. Pending expiration of the trust, when Mr. Price plans to retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive job as manager was Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, 41, onetime logger who has been the Oregonian's managing editor since 1933. Editor Paul Roelofson Kelty, "Ep" Hoyt's boss until four years ago, stayed at his post. Youthful Lester Arden ("Pang") Pangborn was upped from executive news editor to managing editor. Retained as nonresident consultant was Newspaper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskki...
...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
...placed most emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over to descriptions of the red-light districts, skid roads and loggers' saloons that have flourished from Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history...
...MacLane), winning the esteem of her foreman (Alan Hale), and driving a supply train through a Russett barricade, finally makes her believe in it by dynamiting the jam while the personnel of both lumber camps enjoy a free-for-all fight on the river bank. Good shots: An expert logger nonchalantly retrieving a water bottle from the notch in a fir tree, just as the notch closes when the tree falls; the timber country color photographed from the air, with fir-covered mountains spread out to blue horizons in the pattern of enormous deep-green surf...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...