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Chas. R. \Vest Appointed Sales Representative

Davidson Plyrvood & Lumber Co., Los Ar.rgeles, recently appointed Charles R. West, 7 North l5th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, as sales representative for the States of Arizona and Ner.v Mexico. Telephone number is 3-4060, and he rvill sl-rortly have teletype communication rvith Davidsor-r so that prompt service can be given all Arizona and Neu' Mexico dealers. Xlr. \\rest has been established for many years in Phoenix, and has a large acquaintance among the dealer trade.

Biggest Moulding Plcnt Stqrts Operctions-Planer Necrrly Recdy

I)roduction has startecl in the neu' Ponderosa I'ine moulcling plant of Southn'est Lumber Nlills, Inc., at N{cNarl., Arizcna, according to announcement by James G. Nf cNary. president. This is the biggest n.roulding plant er-er built, and rvill turn out 35 cars of mouldings and venetian blind slats every month. It replaces a smaller plant destroyed bv fire last June.

The neu, planing mill. replacing one destroyed by fire at the same time, is nearing completion and u'ill be in operation during January'. It n'ill have a capacity of four million feet of lumber monthly.

Thc nerv moulding plant and planer are fireproof buildings of great size that stand side by side, and rvill rvork in coordination rvith the big sa.n'mill of Southt'est Lumber N{ills at McNary.

Big Scrwmills crt Flcgstcll Arizonc Close lor Winter

Trvo big sawmills located at Flagstaff, Arizona, the Southu'est Lumber Mills, and Saginarv & Manistee Lumber Company, shut dorvn for the rvinter, the first on December 10, and the second a rveek later. In January the planing mill and shipping departments of both plants n'ill resunle operations, but the satvmills lvill be down most of the rvinter. This is seasonal procedure, due to the cold rvinter r.veather in that high altitude. These are both double band mills that manufacture about 8 million feet of Ponderosa Pine lumber a month.

Hecring on Proposed Sustcined Yield Forest Unit ct Flcgstafl

Orl February Znd, a hearing rvill be held by the U. S. J)epa-rtment of Agriculture at Flagstaff, Arizona, orr the lrroposition to make that area and the Coconino Naticlnal Forest a sustained yield unit. This can be done urrrler the Sust:iir.red Yield Unit Act of NIarch. 1944.

In orcler that the citizens of Fiagstaff and vicinitr. ma)' fully understand the meaning of tl.re n-latter. Roland Rottv, Supervisor of Coconino National Forest, and Paul lledarcl, his chief assistant, have taken turns appearing before many service clubs and other civic organizations, explaining in detail what it is all about.

Under the Act mentioned it is possible to declare a Government forest a sustained yield unit, and fron.r that time on guararltee to certain mills of that area a continual and permanent supply of timber for their saws. In Fagstafi there are three major sarvmill companies that rvould share the timber grorvth of Coconino National Forest, and thus be assured of their future supply. This would enable them to make important investments in railroad, mill, and other equipment that they would not be justified in making i{ their timber supply rvere in hazardous position.

Since 40 per cent of all the people of Flagstaff make their living directl.v or indirectly from the Government forests adjagent to the city, it is argued that it is an ideal situation for location of a permanent sttstained yield unit.

Plcrne Still Missing

The private plane in u'hich Paul D. and Robert Starr and Miss Ruth Meyer took off from Salem, Oregon, on December 4 is still reported missing.

Paul D. and Robert Starr, who operate the P. D. Starr Lumber Corporation at South Gate, Calif.. had flou'n to Salem on a business trip and \\'ere enroute to Los Angeles. N{iss Meyer. Portland lumber broker, was on her rvay to Los Angeles to visit her ailing father, a Los Angeles phvsiciarr.