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Show Mill Inventions Eliminate Huge Waste Washington Lumber mill devices which the National Lumber Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' association Bays will save 100,-000,000 100,-000,000 feet of timber annually by elimination of waste have been perfected per-fected as the result of an Invention contest sponsored by that oreaniza-tion. oreaniza-tion. The first prize of S1000, it was announced, has been awarded to William Wil-liam J. McIIale, of Soperton, Wis., for an invention known as the "multiple guide dimension mill.' A second prize of 5300 was won by A. L. Thomas of Charleston, S. C, for an automatically operated seaio and indicator attachment attach-ment for sawmill lumber edgers. Three awards of $100 each, and four of $50 also were announced. |