Progress Report On Lumber Pockoging By Signode

Signode Steel Straplting Conrpany, Chicago, Illinois, has srrccessfrrlly contplete<1 fre1cl engineering assignnteltts on packaging lunrber at the follou,ing lunrber mills : Kaibab Lumber Company, FlagstalT ancl l,-redonia, Arizola. IJasecl on 2 feet high bv four feet r.r'icle packages, n-rethorls u'ere rvorked out for loading clouble-clcior cars either for l'r:rncl nnlcrarling,rl' for mecl-ranical unloading. l-oacling was b1' the Fou'ler Loacler 1\'Iodel DD-33.

I,Ir. I-ee Kutch of Kaibab Lumber has u.ritten as follolvs: "\\'e are loading a 40 feet double-door car in appro.rinrately ll tct 2l-rours u'ith a Fou,ler Loader anc'l .rn'e l"rope to better this tinre as lve go along. \\'e feel that this metl'rod u'ill clefinitely be :r money-saver for us. C)ur customers :rre nrost entl.rrrsiastic about the s1'rilrnrents they have receir-ecl. IJv offcrirrg package<l lurrrber io tlrerrr u'e expect t,, see a,ltl. cicled increase in onr sales."

R. F. Learned and Sons, Natchez, Nlississippi. Ilethocls of lcradirrg rlouble-door cars u'ith 3{' wicle by 25', high packages using the Fou'ler I-oader Ilocle1 DI)-33 rvere rvorkerl out primarily to rerluce loacling cost, rather than for mechanical trnloaclirrg.

Ntr. H. Il. Peabody, presiclent, has u'ritten as follows: "We are very pleased with the operatiorr anrl krrou' that it is savillg lts ntolley. The simple fact is that rvhere \\'e \\.ere rrsing four men to loarl tu,o cars a day, we are now using two melr to load t\\'o cars a dat'ar-rd have tir-r-re left over for otl-rer jobs."

feet_ w'icle by 2 leet high, u'ith cleats across the top of thc package uncler the straps, but no stickers or dividers rvithin the package. It is easy to irssemble an<l can be loacled irr either single or rlorrble-cloor cars. lt arrives in very goocl condition rvithorrt criring, alcl yet rloes uot need a liress to nrake it tight, as sonre o{ the largest size packages seenr tcr rerluire. It can be loaded ancl unloaclecl in dorrble cloor c:rrs using either conventional fork truck alcl roller methorls or u'ith the l,-orn'1er I-riader, although loads in single <1oor cars probably require sorne sort of :r boor-n loader such as the Iiou'ler I-oader Xloclel SD-22.

Anacon^da- Company, I3onner, trIontana. Tl.rev are using .1 focrt by 2 foot packages an<l tl.re For,r'ler I.oacler tlcxlel l)I)-33, u'ith rrethods sir.nilar to those .ivorked out at Kaibab. Although tl.r.e assignnrent has been conrpletecl, they are go- ing-to go ahea(l u'itl.r arr experimental program on Z t6ot h,t' 2 f oot packages sirnilar to those at Soirtl-rwest.

As a result of these Signocle Iield engirreering assign-

Southwest Lumber Mills, Irhoelix. ,\rizona. \\ at their lilagstafT mill ancl rleveloperl a package t:,, God made the world. But He does not make your world. iHe provides the raw materials, and out of them every man i€etects what he wants and builds an individual world for $irnself. The fool looks upon the material, selects a few :plates of ham and eggs, a few suits of clothes, a few dollar i,.bills (or perhaps millions, in which case he considers himt A,^r - --\ ^-r :- ^-rl^!^j ,TrL^ ---:-^ *^- L..:l,l^ Sblf a great success) and is satisfied. The wise man builds :.his world out of wonderful opportunities, thrilling experi'!1ces, romance, adventure, friendships, and miracles. Nothing wonderful ever happens in the life of the ham-and-egg

"Life is short," wrote Emerson, "but there is always time r courtesy."

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A trip to the beaches is bound to remind a person of what ' Will Rogers once said: "I never expected to live to see the i,,day when girls would get sunburned in the places where .j' ,they do now." {.t6* l Jimmy Byrnes remarked long years ago that "Russians " are people you just can't do business with." They haven't 'changed a bit, Jimmy, not a single bit. Read the news and , see.

': : Overeating and overdrinking are both evidences of weak Li,.character. A man should keep his brains above his belt, and l1:'if he isn't man enough to do that, he should neither eat nor drink. * * rF

It has been wisely remarked that the average girl prefers -, beauty to brains, knowing that the average man can see i!:.r-nuch better than he can think.

No man should be afraid to think, because he knows that nobody ever gets warts on the brain.

Brains, vigor, personality, and honesty make a strong foursome on the links of life.

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A cheerful salesman says that if you build a better mousetrap than the others, the world might, as the old story goes, beat a path to your door; but not to buy that better mousetrap. It would be beaten by cheese salesmen trying to sell you bait.

BY JACK DIONNE

Cicero, the Roman, was a mighty benevolent philosopher, as well as one of the greatest orators of ancient history. He said: "They who say we should love our fellow citizens and not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, and without it benevolence and justice would perish forever."

George Washington's father was married twice, had four children by his first marriage and six by his secdnd, and George was thefirst child of the second marriage. The great Daniel Webster was also one of a second family, the second child of that second family. But Ben Franklin's mother and'father had seventeen children, of which he was the fifteenth. Ilere, as often, history teaches that'you can never tell where genius will appear, the other sixteen brothers and sisters of Ben being ordinary humans, while he, the fifteenth child of his parents, was loaded with that intangible thing called genius. His mother gave birth to fourteen run-of-the-mill brats before this great man came along'

"There is just one crop that poor land will grow successfully," said a small-town South Carolina banker, "and that is poor people."

The jails of the nation are fflled these days with youngsters; and mostly by kids whose parents neglected to spank them on time.

Men who glory in their work in the contest for greater heights of human endeavor, are the world's inspiration and its hoPe'

The human body is a temple in which dwells a spark of that intelligence that men call God.

Of course it does not always happen in this vale of tears that good intent and tireless industry reap a rich reward. Too many men mistake ambition for ability---a longing for success for the power to achieve it. ***

The right sort of ambition builds quality. Webster said that he attributed much of his oratorical success to the fact

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