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...
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