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Jim Fleming Retires qs Monoger Of D-N's Yord qt los Molinos

_ lor Mo-l!no.s, Calif.-Jim Fleming, manager of the local Diamond National retail yard the past 17 y{ars, has retired. "This is really a new experience for me," the dealer said from his new_ "post" in his own "yard" in his cottage just north of the Veteran's Memorial building.

Fleming, who started with Diamond Match Co. here 19f yearc ago, has nothing lined up but leisure and a little gardening. He was proud to declare that he still has more than a year to wait for his Social Security benefits. His early retirement was effected through the new Retirement Plan recently started by Diamond National Corp. _ "I have no regrets," Fleming told The Chico EnterpriseRecord. "I have enjoyed my years of retail lumber work but now am looking forlvard to doing just what I please."

Stepping up into Fleming's place a-s manager of ihe Los Molinos yard will be Rex Morgan, a D-N employee here for the last 10 years and assistant manager.

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A l7-mile stretch of highway lined by massive redwoods was christened The Avenue of the Giants at elaborate dedication ceremonies, August 27, in the picturesque Redwood Empire community of Scotia, Calif. This section of the Redwood Highway (U.S. 101) will be maintained as a scenic route through the forest. Many of the woodland giants along the route are more than 20 centuries old and over 300 ft. high.

The first unit of the Redwood Freeway, a $36-million project, has been completed and work on the second unit is well underway. The 43-mile Freeway will speed traffic through that part of Humboldt county while The Avenue of the Giants, which winds through the forest, will remain a leisurely route for tourists.

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Of course, each man in a sawmill has his The job of head sawyer carries with it a Obviously, this type of "saw;fer's sense" job to do, and we don't want to give the high degree of skill and knowledge, found is not garnered from textbooks. 1 impression that any sawmill job is unim- in only one place-at the head rig itself. To Normally, the head saw ls chanrged every poitant. But most mill men, young and old, the observer, this saw seems like a fairly four hours. A power E'lnch rals6 the saw will agree that the individual with the most simple thing-big, but not too complicated. through the oelllng' where lt ls put on the mfnute-ny-mtnute responsibility is the head Actually, the saw and its mechanisms, grlndtng machlne. As soon as the area ls sawyer. coupled with the brains of the operator, free, a sharp saw ls lowered lnto place

He sits in a protected booth almost ad- make it a highly efficient and effective tool, and cuttlng beglns. Tho completo operatlon Jacent to the head saw, and has an un- by no means uncomplicated. takes about three mlnutes. obstructed view of the length of, the car- Many West Coast mills use a band saw, Occasionally, the saw will strike a foreign riage. Before him is a console table, with traveling at a speed of about 120-mph over object in a log, usually a spike or nail, or nuiterous buttons. dials and levers with two wheels 10 feet in diameter. The saw even a telephone wire insulator. These obwhich he completely controls the speed of itself is about 60 feet long, and will take a jects usually are noticed when the log is the saw, depth of - the cut, speed of the log up to 95" in diameter, ctttting a Y+" barked, but sometimes they are imbedded carriage and the coungess other tasks re- saw-kerf. IJnder norrnal conditions, the saw so far into the log that they are surrounded quired-to convert a log into lumber. is powered by a 400-h.p. electric motor, by years of wood growth.

One bad cut actuail! could lose hundreds turning the mill wheels at 9,000-rpm. Contrary to popular belief, a saw is not of board feet of otherwlse cloan lumber Behind tJre scene (above, actually), auto- necessarily ruined when it strikes a metal from one log. A head sa,wyet's a,pprentice- matic saw grinders are in continuous opera- object. Most of the time, the damage to the shlp lasts many yea,rs anrl millionsbf board tion, sharpening each saw for its turn on saw consists of a few bent or broken teeth' tedt. Otten the j;b 13 passed on from father the wheel. The sawyer can tell by sight and which can be straightened out or welded on to son, llke a, brewei or baker (or tooth- sound when his saw is getting dull. As the in a short time. plck naker?). sawyer says, "She just sounds different." Occasionally, the saw will break into three or four pieces, but these can be salvaged and welded together into a complete-