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Bob Higgins? Many middle-age types will remember Bob as sales manager at TiriSer Products and at Medfdrd Corp. during the 1950s and 1960s. ATter attending college at lowa State, Bob went to work at the former Brooks Scanlon sawm'ill in B6nd, Or., where he learned lumber grading. From there he went into sales at Medco, then to Timber Products for a few years and, in 1 964, back to Medco. ln 197 5 , Bob was made president of Medford Corp. and remained in that position until the sale of the company to Amalgamated Sug,ar in 1984. Higgini stayed on for one year and remained on the board of directors until 1966. at which time he headed north to Seattle to become executive vice president of Pacific Lumber and Shipping Co.

Bob says he enjoys the Seattle area and is working on switching his allegiance to the University of Washington Huskies. His work is about 30% minufacturing, and 7Oo/o exporting. His-firm has offices in Japan, Australia and England.

Owl Droppings

The mood struck us recently to take a tour of the Sienas before the winter snows. The first stop was the quaint village of Craeagle, Ca., about 30 miles east of Quincy. During the day one could see a helicopter logging operation in the hills iust west of town. Logging trucks were streaming throug,h town one after the other, many with LARCE old growth logs aboard. It didbne's heart good to see these big logs, knowing that the overmature trees thev came from would not be allowed to rot and waste.

The local motel had a no vacancy sign, but we were able to rent a home for two days. This house decorated with no fewer than 20 owls - paintings, figurines, sculptures and fuzzy little creatures on the wallwas not a fit olace for a lumberman and tended to detract from the enioyment of the oay.'Chester, Ca., was our next destination to check out the new planing mill and log infeed apparatus at Collins Pine Co. Dan Wolters and crew have made some fine improvements, with more to come ihis problem hits many Sacramento Valley golf courses during the hot summer months. A course that lplay fairly rbgirlarly was so badthat the local iuvenile delinquents who came out to vandalize the course went home because they thought it had already been vandalized. b 6 e a

Another jaunt took us to Redding, Ca., to do battle in the annual Shasta Lumberments Colf Tournament, the final event on the "Summer Lumbermen's Colf Tour." The tournament was, as usual, well run by Don Cherovsky and his assistants, but the Breens were less than ideal due to a bout with Fred Fungus.

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