Way Out of the Woods

The Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber.

Woods and his amateur woodsmen sweated out six carloads of logs, triumphantly sent them off to the paper mill. In return, the World got 40 tons of newsprint, enough to see it through the month. Its 68-year-old publisher hadn't had so much fun since he ran off with the circus nine years ago, to spend five days as a clown.

In the wake of the soft-coal and railroad strikes, and with the loggers' walkout drying up western Canada sources, many a daily and weekly was harder put to it for paper than during the war. The Los Angeles Times shrank one day last week to eight parres. In St. Louis, Dallas. Houston and a dozen other cities, paper-starved dailies went adless to stretch their dwindling hoards.

In Guatemala, the Government shut off all newsprint to two papers. Reason: their quota was needed for an anti-illiteracy campaign.

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