Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 14 1975 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, October 14, 1975 SPECIAL PRICE!!! PHYSICIANS DESK REFERENCE 1976 $10.25 If:ordered by Oct. 15th, and paid in ad- vance. Mail your check today. Price is $11.50 plus tax if not paid in advance. Offer good only until Oct. 15th for delivery in reb. 1976. OVERBECK BOOKSTORE 1216 S. UNIVERSITY 663-9333 I' BLEAK SEASON FOR LUMBERJACKS: Loggers hurt by Strikes; econom y ESCANABA, Mich. (P) - The forests are a vibrant patchwork of color across North America now. But for the loggers who earn their living in these for- ests, there is an extra chill in the autumn winds. Many of the 100,000 loggers across the U.S. and Canada are being squeezed out of business between a sagging timber mar- ket and a rash of strikes by mill workers. "IT'S PRETTY desperate in the Upper Peninsula," said the wife of one out-of-work logger. "These men have no union, no SUB, (Supplemental Unemploy- ment Benefit) fund like the auto workers, no nothing. And they don't qualify for welfare be- cause they are all mostly self- employed." Walkouts by pulp and paper workers have shut down mills all across the U.S. and Canada. Canada's daily production of newsprint has been cut 42 per cent by strikes, according to the Canadian Paperworkers Union. U.S. strike figures are incom- plete, but the picture here in this Upper Peninsula town typi- fies the situation. MEAD CORP'S giant Escan- aba mill has been picketed by its 1,000 workers for the past four months in a dispute over a pension plan. Even before the strikes, busi- ness was off, reflecting the gen- eral state of the nation's econ- omy. "Tissues and sanitary prod- ucts are going about full tilt," a spokesman for the American Pulpwood Association said in Washington. "THE SLOWDOWN in the economy has hurt the rest of the industry, however, especially packaging and fine papers." The downturn in the automo- bile industry made a big im- pact, the spokesman said. When car sales are up, there is more demand for brochures and glos- sy stock. And magazines - an-!trucks and giant tractors called, other big market for fine pa- skidders for pulling felled logs! per - generally get more auto- out of the woods. motive advertising, he said. Bigger operators also have ''People buy more replace-I been investing in feller-bunch- ment parts, too, when times are ers, a crane-like machine that good," he said, "and that means snips off a whole tree like a more packages and containers large pair of scissors. are needed." a Ir G~secialIY'for women. We arry a lge selection of Ortho tsincluding: DELFEN contraceptive foam wpplicator & refill " DELFEN contracptive cream w/applicator & refill .CONCEPTROL cream w/applicator ORTHO- CREME w/ applicator &8 refill . SPECIAL!- ORTHO - GYNOL contraceptive jelly reg $2.72.. NOW $2.19! ALSO, TAMPAX, both sizes U.S. MILLS had used only 37 million cords of timber through July, according to Pulpwood As- sociation figures, compared with 44.5 million cornds through the first seven months last year. The Canadian Pulp and Paper Association said its figures showed 7.2 million tons of paper and paper bond had been. shipped through July 1975, down' from 8.3 million tons from the same period in 1974. Shipment of wood pulp was down from 4.61 million tons to 3.6 million tons for the same period, Canadianl figures show.I Caught in the middle is the logger, that oft-romanticized figure who makes his living in the woods cutting trees. LOGGING HAS changed con- siderably since the days when a man needed only a double-blad- ed axe, a pair of broad shoul- ders and the stamina to spend a winter in a remote lumber camp. The camps are gone. Logging today is mechanized, and most of the loggers have considerable investments in heavy equipment such as chainsaws, flatbed ',THE LOGGER is in a real Catch-22," said Larry Curran, head of the welfare office in Es- canaba. "They've got all that equipment to pay for, but be- cause they're basically small businessmen, they're not eligible for welfare unemployment in- surance. time if at all possible." In the tiny hamlet of Germ- fask, deep in the heart of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, a logger's widow and her two sons are concerned about their] future-and their independence. When Leonard Gager died, about a year ago, after a life- time of logging, he had nothing to leave his widow, Voretta, but a lifetime of memories. WITH HIS two sons, 38-year- old Roger and 18-year-old Dar- win, Gager was his own small company. All they had was a skidder and a couple of chain 'The logger is in a real catch-22, they've got all that equipment to pay for, but because they're basically small businessmen, they're not eligible for welfare unemployment insurance .. The timber situation is so bad the banks aren't even bothering to repossess the equipment.' . ..................::4:. .............. ...t. rW .S .. a S.. f > .'}A., . . ......a n public, just returned from the Pacific Northwest and *Montana where he went looking for work. "We were thinking of going out there if we found work," An- tilla said. "But it's not any bet- ter. out there. The market is softy" The biggest logging operation in this region belongs to Earl St. John. And his problems parallel those of the Gager family, only on a grander scale. ST. JOHN had 75 men working for him in 1974, compared to just 24 now. He owns four feller- bu n chers "and they're all iii s iiisi - aj/""w" i"""" t:::::! WHAT ARE YOUR CHANCES OF DEVELOPING HEART DISEASE ? 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The timber situation has be- come so bleak the banks aren't even bothering to repossess the equipment. "WE CERTAINLY don't want the equipment," said Arnie Makie, president of the First National Bank in Escanaba. "We're going case-by-case, but the 'board has been very under- standing on the loans. We try to give these fellows extensions of TICKETS NOW ON. SALE saws. They didn't even own a truck. But they got by. The sons, who know no other work, would like to carry on. "The boys are a little behind in their bills right now," Ms. Gager said. Roger tended bar some last winter. He's got a small skidding job on a farm right now, but before that he just didn't do much of anything. He just took odd jobs where he could find them. "HE'S CALLED a couple of the people he owes, trying to buy time," she added. Darwin said he has taken a, job in the wildlife refuge, "cut- ting brush for the government. But it's only until December. Then I don't know what I'm go- ing to do.". Darwin figuies he's $1,600 in debt. "That's a lot of money, es- pecially if you don't know when you're going to start making money again. We never had a fixed income, but we cut an av- erage of 15 cords a day at $32 a cord for the good wood." OSCAR ANTILLA, 42, of Re- parked." He said about. 20 per cent of the men he had. to lay off still are unemployed. "Some went into construc- tion," St. John said, "and some went back to the' cities where they came from in the first place." ST. JOHN said the loggers are bitter because they see strikers at the ;paper mills getting' food stamps.Andr .welfare payments for children. "The government' is subsidiz- ing strikers," St. 'John said, "and there's no way that's fair." He said one reason he was able to survive was because the people he kept on are versatile. "WE WERE able to go back to working chain saws,, clearing land for farmers," St. John said. "I hated to do it, but I had to sell sonie land I owned in or- der to keep my guys going. 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