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Show Jim Taylor Kaibab Names Veteran to Head Operation Jim Taylor, Panguitch, was appointed production manager at the Panguitch facility of Kaibab' Industries, just three days prior to his scheduled retirement. The 26-year-veteran employee of the company was approached by Jim Whitney, president of the forest products division of Kaibab, who asked him to assume the helm in Panguitch. Taylor, who says he "loves challenges" accepted. While most of his experience at Kaibab, with corporate offices in Phoenix, has been spent in the logging end of operations rather than in production, he feels secure in his new position because of the compound skills of his highly experienced staff. Taylor has spent the past 16 months in Fredonia, overseeing logging operations at the company's plant therer'''He supervises log handling at the mill site, logging transfer to Panguitch, control of log inventory and was in charge of backup equipment and personnel. His staff in Panguitch is made up of highly skilled personnel and he said he has worked with 60 to 70 percent of them out in the field in the logging end of the business. He says his plans for Kaibab are two-fold. He wants to get production up, and while he says it won't take place overnight, he is entertaining all suggestions from his supervisors and will implement the best ideas to try to bring on higher productivity. His second goal is to achieve a better grade of product coming out of the mill, beginning with the log as it comes into the mill, on through the planer. He said he feels he has the full cooperation of his workers in striving for this goal. He says there will be no immediate major changes, only refining small changes to try to achieve the two gaols. Taylor, who was born in Illinois and reared on a southern Indiana farm, was Introduced to logging early at the age of seven when his father began teaching him the logging busienss from the ground up. His father belonged to a farmers' co-op that owned a small milling operation. In those days, he says, they used only horses, cross cut saws and axes. He worked until he entered the service in 195?. and served In Korea. Because he had never seen the western United States, he asked for his discharge in California. After traveling cround he ended up in Panguitch where he said he thought he was in heaven. |