Two f,len qnd Fork Lift Unlood Winton's Pockoged Lumber Shipment to Tempe in Record 47 fftinutes

It's like the four-minute mile. For years nobodv came close to running a mile in this amazing time. And then, all at once, everybody started running in the 3:50s.

A year ago, who would have dreamed that a carload of lumber could be unloaded in less than t hour? And even more amazing-by only two men? Today's remarkable record is (hold your hats l>-47 minutes !

O'Malley Lumber Co., of Tempe, Ariz., shou'ed the u.ay several months ago rvith their first assault on the one-hour mark. Tu'o men and a fork-lift truck came rvithin shooting distance of the one-hour mark while unloading a carload of Winton packaged lumber.

But then, on August 26, O'Malley received its seconcl Winton car. This time the firm ll,as confident a ne\,v record would be established. Several corrections had been made in the packaging pattern, and a telephone pole, that had proved troublesome in the previous unloading demonstrations, was removed, giving the fork-lift truck greater manerlverabilitl'.

It was "do or die" for the O'Mallev two-man team.

Their eartrier record of t hour, 11 minules had been broken by a Southern California demonstration in the very good time of 53 minutes.

The O'Malley creu' must have felt like highly trairred athletes before a big race. A sizable crou'd u,as assembled tcr witness the nerv record try. Included u'ere 26 retall lumber dealers, railroad men frrrm the Southern l)acific and Santa Fe, representatives from Acme Steel Co., makers of the steel binding straps, the fork-lift nranufacturers, and others.

AFTEIT THE I)UST HAD S]ITTLED THAT MIIN{. ORAtsLE AUGUST I)AY, TH]r- O'NIALLEY TE,\NI HAD HUNG UP AN ANIAZING NE\V ITECORD OF 47 MINUTES FOl{ O'MALLEY AND \\TINTON !

James C. O'Malley, r.isibly pleased by the success of the demonstration, declared: "I;aikaged 1O high ancl pullecl to length suits our storage pattern absolutely, so it ulas a perfcct car for us. As the report of our Tempe lttanager to tl-rc NRLDA test-shippins program reflects, u'e har.e no sug- gestions for irnprovement in the loading !"

l\{r. O'Malley had predicted after receipt of his hrst \\Iirrton car that unloading time could be greatly reclucecl :rs experience rvas gained. Hou' right he rv:rs ! Ilut u'ho dreamed a 47-minrrte record n'as in the ruaking?

_ Certainly the time and labor sar.ings of these packagcd lumber demorrstrations rn'i11 prove interesting to lum6et dealers rvho are alu'a)'s looking for u'ays to lou'er cost and increase profit.

The industry now u'onders if the next lumberman's convention may see a competition ltetu,een crack unloading creu's for the neu, n.orld's recclrd.

Galifornio Forestry Boord Tqkes Up lmporlonf Mqfters ot Meeting

The State Board of Forestry scheduled a meeting in Sacramento on October 31 and November 1. The two-day sessions were to be held in the State Personnel Board hearing room. Matters to be considered during the first-day session included reports from the executive committee of the Range Improvement Advisory committee to the board on range-improvement programs and the California Pegt Control Action Council about forest insect control problems in California. The Board was to hear recommendations for establishing, by rule, the eastern boundary of the Redwood Forest district under the Forest Practice act, and also a report from the state.forester pertaining to enforcement of Forest Practice rules during 1956-57. The State Department of Fish and Game was to present a new film on the problems of maintaining fish life in streams along which logging operations are conducted. ,

The second day session is to receive recommendations and discuss matters ielating to a number of Board of Forestry policies that will be coniidered for adoption at future meetingi. Senator Stanley Arnold, chairman. and other members of the Senate Interirn-Committee on The Economic Redevelopment of Cut-over (timber) Areas and Brush I-a.nds, was invited by the board to attend the first day's session. Other Interim committee members are Senators S*iit Berry, Stephen T. Teale, Paul L. Byrne and John F. Hollister Jr.

Heqrd Reioins Weslern Pine Supply

Pete Heard has rejoined Western Pine Supply Co., Emeryville, arrd will work with Jeary Griffin and Sheldon Sussman in WPSCo's direct mill sales division. Heard, who formerly called on retail yards in the Greater Bay area for Western Pine, will again service some of his old accounts along with added territories in Contra Costa county and the Redwood Empire regioh.