PAGE FOUR
Around The Mt. Mitchell
Forest Service District
I By George Vitas, U. S. Forest Ranger
When ever we think ofj
early American pioneering
days, we picture a clearing
in the forest, a tog cabin
a n d a settler, equally adept
with plow or rifle. Not too
long ago we stopped at the
Pioneer Memorial State
Park in Harrodsburg, Ky.»
to look over the o*d f ort
that was established by
James Harrod and Daniel
Boone in 1774. We were
very much impressed, by
how important the forest
was in the lives of ''those
pioneers. The fort consist
ed of log stockade, block
houses, and cabins. The
cabins were furnished with
many articles of wood—
wash tubs, spinning wheels
baby cradles, butter churns 1
beds, chairs, stools and
numerous other items. The
settlers lived outside the
stockade, but during In-1
dian attacks they would j
come into the fort until
things cooled off, then they
would go back to their
homesteads. It was rough,
but those pioneers hung on
and Fort Harrod became
the “cradle of the great
State of Kentucky”—the
first permanent settle
ment West of the Allegh
enies.
Another thing at Fort
Harrod that impressed us
very much was the big part
that the women played i n
making it a successful set
tlement. The first hotel
was estahlsihed by a wom
an, a woman brought the
first spinning wheel into 1 ,
the fort a n d raised the fir-1
the Railroads
the Labor Unions
_^_seekto
memorandum of agreement 1
Washington. D. C.
December 21, 1950
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?””! 2 c”» 2«.otiv. January J. 1951- I
2. Set aside 40 hour week agreement until January I
1, 1952, and establish 6 day period°after 30 days I
men required by the carrier ghall rece ive
paid overtime rates except engi does nQt creato
straight time rates for the 1 7th « iay^ gt Qn and after
I guarantees vhere tey d^no^ , notice to be given of desire
October 1. 1951. Provide for consideration of
I ‘LiLSmy °r r -«"P»".r *» d 4 “ nta if “ d
"5 if tour *eek actually beco.es effective. .
3 Settle rules for 40 hour week and 6 day week.
I 4. Grant yard condors ..jH.^ind
I footboarfyardnanterfan recorded by E.emency Board
I No. 81. I
I 5 - initialterminal Slay (Conductors and Train- 1
men) I
I and Trainsen,
1 BTSS St Sit. of service 1
I (Concur, and „„„ To „_
I W6 nigrLiiitation (Conductors and Trainmen, all
Territories)
I ....{ o a rants per hour increase
I effective it&H “« f 5 O, "‘ S
I increase effective January 1. 1951.
7. Quarterly adjustment of wages on basis of cost
st chickens and ducks
there. A woman opened
the first Kentucky school
there. With the woods full
of hostile Indians those
pioneer women helped
their me l * and raised their
families with one hand
literally rocking the crad
le while the other held a 1
rifle.
But the Forestry pro
fession ha 0 its pioner wom
en too. Forestry and lum
bering is normally consid
ered a field —strictly for
men only. But Dorothy M.
Martin, of the U. S. Forest
Service, recently wrote an
article in the American
Forests magazine in which
states that during the
past 50 years, 28 women
have thus far graduated
from American Forestry
Schools. Over half of these
i women have worked in
[Forestry an average of 1
,three years or more. The'
lddy-foresters are - few in |
number—the Society of i
American Foresters con- [
sists of 6,800 men and 16
women.
However, in a closer ex
amination of the rouge
and powder-puff depart
ment of Forestry, Miss
Marti" proves that the
girls have done alright.
Better than two-thirds
have married. One lady
forester, Grace Dodge, got
her forestry degree from;
I the University of Washin- '
gton in 1924 and then mar
ried a forester. In 1950 she
had the plaesure of watch
’ ing her son receive his de-
BISPICT..
REPUDIATE
A TIRE THAT NEjEDS
NO TUBE
The new puncture-sealing
tubeless tire which was dem
onstrated recently to press
gree in forestry from the
same school she attended.
That makes three foresters
in that family—Father,
mother and son.
Getting closer to home;
,in 1930 Miss Margaret
Stoughton graduated from 1
lowa State College Forest
, ry School, passed fcer Civil
Service Examination and
went to work for the U. S.i
Forest Experiment Station'
in Asheville. She worked J
there for five years and
then married chuck Abel
—a forester. Today, she 1
and Chuck, who is a Ran
ger in California are busy
raising trees and three!
(daughters.
Even English girls some
times feel a touch of saw
dust in their veins. Miss
Diana Smith graduated
from England’s Univer-[
sity of Edinborough. Turn
led down in England for'
'Forestry, she came to Am-
I ?rica where the U. S. For
jst Service put her to work
!at the Forest Products
1 Laboratory in Madison,
Wise; She is doing research
vvork on wood.
Although an employer
may feel that the Amer
ican girl-forester is not
cut out for fighting forest
fires, logging and milling,
he will concede that she is
doing a sple n did job in for
estry offices and tobora-J
Itories. Besides the record
■ shows that the girl forest- 1
ers who ready wanted to
get out into the woods, did
get out. They maried for
esters.
I hour. First
I ynrd»«sUrsl» r, r:» n Jg^"^JPj«o
dining car rnd^S’r** 10 bas * c hours of I
Per month; „ 0 penalty oilrUmelff froni 225 to 205 hours
have been worked th» s« erU u 9 to accru ® until 240 hour* I
for at the bßtWeen 205 and 240 *> Se paid
.n.-h,ir"tanToif. n, S e ;- 2 |f;; ov " tIM «« nnd I
The basic monthly salarv in u 2O h ? urs have been worked.
m °nth shall be the earners thet Paid f ° r the 205 - hour I
ttonth. Except that four dol Sr now paid for the 225-hour
shall be added to the present te " cents (34.10)
January 1, 1951. P esent m °nthly rate effective I
effective untirOctobe? I !^?^^^’.^ 18 a E'’eement to be
changed or modified under. nd thereafter until
Moratorium on proposal* f«r°K 1310ns of Ra il"ay Labor Act
until October ia wages or rules"
or working P conditions°wi11 f?f e s 0f pay ' rules
by the employees against an! lni fiated or progressed
rier against its “ff ler ° r by aa V car
perxod of three yearsflom’rw k , hereto ' wit hin a
i Proposals for changes in^n? r 1 ‘ 195 °’ ® XCB P t
ditions which may have been ?2 r Working con
1. 1950. Provided, however ?iL\ prior to Jun ®
1 government wage stabilization aS the resul t of
I erally have been permitted polic y* workers gen
annual improvement increase* 0 t r ® ceivo so-called
1 w|th Doctor Steelman on or e !f* the T Parti,s “ay me ®t
1 discuss whether or not fulth™ 01 * Ju * y 2 * 1952 « to
1 employees covered by this Tan*" Wag ? ad J ust ®ents for
1 in addition to increases r !f* e T are Justified. _
j living formula. At the m ce^ ed under the cost of
I such a meeting Doctor <?♦ of either party for
1 Place for such meeting ®njT 8b ? 11 fix the time and
I parties may secure inforJ!?? tol \. SteellDan and th * __
1 zation authorities or othe! 10 " fl "° m the wage 3t abili- 1-1
1 or other government agencies, if
We are publishing this and other advertieements to talk to you
at first hand about matters which are important to everybody.
188 YANCEY RECORD
and civic ofidals in Char
lotte, now is available for
the first time to motorists in
the Burnsville area George
W. Roberts, store manager
and dealer for B. F. Good
rich, announced this week.
Mr. Roberts recently at
tended a meeting of B. F
Goodrich dealers and store
managers in Chalotte where
he saw cars equipped with
tubeless tires run over three
I inch spikes without losing a
pound of air. He said a tube
less tire has been the goal of
tire engineers since the
dawn of the automotive age.
Mr. Roberts said the tube
-1 less tire is just that —a tire
'that does not require an
inner tube. In addition, he
'said, it has an inner layer of
special gummy m a terial
that automatically s e ais
punctures effectively and
permanently right on the 1
running wheel. Since the
tire does not have an inner
, tube, he explained, it actual
ly is easier to mount and
itake off than ordinary ones
j Cold rubber has been added
to the tread to give longer
mileage.
I The new pr<touct has been
tested under the m ost
severe conditions during the
past six year in the lab
oratory, on taxi fleets, o n
state police cars and on a
special fleet of test cars, he
said.
The new tire, he said,
costs less than an ordinary
[tire with a safety inner
jtube. Besides it gives an
i easier ride, maintains cor
[ rect air pressure for months
and combines safe perform
ance at high speeds with
, puncture-seaUng protection.
Buy U. S. Savings Bonds
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a to John R. steel agreement
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Payees covered by this
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1951
At various states in the present dispute
with the brotherhoods of railroad
operating employees
. . . the railroads agreed to arbitrate.
The union leaders refused.
... the~ra3roads"acceptecf the, recom
mendations of President Truman’s
Emergency Board. The union leaders
refused.
... the railroads accepted the White
House proposal of August 19, 1950. The
union leaders refused.
Finally an Agreement was signed at
the White House on December 21, 1950.
Now the union leaders seek to repudiate
the Agreement.
The railroads stand ready to put the
terms of this Agreement into effect im
mediately, with back pay at the rates
and date indicated.
The Agreement is given in full below: