Annual Stag D.y Was Great Success

George L. Drake Elected President Society of American Forest€rs

George L. Drake of Shelton, Wash., 'i'r'as elected December 1 as president of the Society of American Foresters for the two-year term of 1952-53 by mail ballot of the members. He succeeds Charles F. Evans of Atlanta, Ga., rvho rvas not a candidate for re-election.

Mr. Drake rvas graduated in forestry at the Pennsvlvania State College in 1912. Entering the U. S. Forest Service that same year, he served as a government forester in \\rashington, Oregon, and Alaska for 18 years. In 1930 he was appointed general superintendent, in charge of all rvoods and forestry operations, of the simpson Logging Company, ;rnd subsequently became vice president of the firm. A former chairman of the Society's I)ivision of Private Forestry, N{r. Drake is u'idel1' knorvn throughout the forestrv profession.

Eln'ood L. I)emmon. director of the Southeastern Forest Iixperiment Station, Asheville, N. C. u'as elected vice president of the Societl'. A forestry graduate of the Universitr. of Michigan in i916, NIr. Demmon was for seven years thereafter a forester ancl technical adviser to a rubber company in Sumatra. In 1925 l.re became silviculturist at the Southern Forest E,xperiment Station at New Orleans, a trnit of the U. S. Forest Service, and in 1928 he \\'as appointed director of the station. In 1941 he became director of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station at St. Paul, Minn.. continuing in that position until May 195f ivhen hc rvas named clirector of the Southeastern Station.

Organized in 1900, the Society of American Foresters rvith headquarters in Washington, D. C., has a membership of 8600 professionally educated foresters in the United States and Canada. Its governing body is a Council, composed of the president, vice president, and 9 additional mem'bers. The follorving foresters rvere electecl to the Councii in the recent balloting: record rvere because of built in England in the the antagonism of hand

\\/i11iam J. Brorn'n, assistant chief forester. KirnberlyClark Corporation, Neenah, \\ris.

Drvight B. Demeritt, manager of rvoodlands, Dead River Company, Bangor, Maine.

Frank H. Kaufert, director. School of Forestry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, I\{inn.

C. Otto Lindh, regional forester, U. S. Forest Service, Abrrquerque, New Mexico.

Gordon D. Marcku'orth, dean, College of Forestrv, tlniversity of Washington, Seattle, \\rash.

Richard E. McArdle, assistant chief, U. S. Forest Serr-ice, Washington, D. C.

Earl Porter, manager, \\roodlands Department, Sottthertr Kraft Division, International Paper Comltany, Mobile, Ala.

Perry A. Tl.rompson, Regional forester, U. S. Forest Service (retired), San Rafael, Calif.

Ruthford H. \\restveld, professor of forestry and chairrnan, f)epartment of Forestrl', Universitv of \Iissouri, CoIrrmbia. \[o.

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Redwood Lumber Industry Advisory Committee Meets tVith OPS Officials

Tacoma lumher $ales, Inc.

714 W. Olympic Btvd.

LOS ANGEI.ES 15, CAI.IF.

Telephone PRospect ll08

Brcnrch Office: 1030 G Street, Arccrtcr, Calil., Phone 705

CABGO and EAIL FIR and REDWOOD

Nepresenting

St. Pqul & Tcrcomq Lumber Co.

Tccomcr, Wash.

Delicrnce Mill Co.

Tcrcomcr, Wash.

Dickmcn Lumber Compcnry

Tqcomcr, Wash.

Kcrlen-Danris Compcury

Tccomc, Wagh.

Tqcomcr Hcnbor Lumber d Timber Co.

Tccomc& Wa$.

G. L Speier Co.

Arccrtc, CcliL

FIB

San Francisco, December 19, 1951-The Redrvood Lumber Industry Advisory Committee met in San Francisco today rvith Washington officials of the Ofhce of Price Stabilization to discuss the tentative draft of a dollar-andcents pricing regulation on redwood lumber products.

The proposed regulation covers all types and grades of redwood lumber at the manufacturers' level, according to A. L. Helmer, Chief of the OPS Western Softrvood Section.

Committee members rvere asked to study the tentative pricing order and to make their recommendations.

Committee members attending this second meeting held :rt Regional OPS headcluarters in the Flood Building, San I?rancisco, included C. \\r. Bahr, Pacific Lumber Companl-. San Francisco and Scotia; H. E. Bailey, Ifammond Lumber Companl', Eureka; Russell Ells, president of Willits Redr,vood Products Company, Willits; William R. Morris, vice president, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco and Fort Bragg; A. J. Russell, Geneva Lumber Company, Orick.

In addition to Mr. Helmer, OPS representatives attending included H. M. Clelancl, Economist; S. A. Emmerglick, Attorney; Eunice A. Johr-rson, Business Analyst; and Stanley C. Crar,en, Chief of the Wood Contairrer Section.

\(/inr Novemb er "ldea" Contest

A. H. Smith of 1333 Evelyn, Rockford, Illinois, has been alvarded a check for $50 by the Portland Shingle Company of Portlancl, Oregon for his suggestion submitted in the company's November "idea" contest, according to Alfred H. Schmidt, president of the firm.

The Portland Shingle Con.rpany is au'arding a $50 check each month to the individual submitting the most lvorthwhile suggestion for improving manufacturing methods and working conditions within the company, marketing, aclvertising, or utilization of its products, or developing new uses for \Vestern red cedar and waste products resulting from manufacture of cedar shingles and shakes. Suggestions are welcomed from company employees, wholesalers, dealers and users of Portland Shingle Company products, according to Schmidt.

A. H. Smith has suggested using trvo colors of shakes for siding on tall buildings, he indicates that by combining dark shakes on the second story of a house and lighter shakes on tl.re first story, the house will be more attractive and tend to look much lorver.

Previous "idea" contest r.vinners are Mrs. frene O'Connor, Amanda Park, Washington; Donald H. Clark, Seattle, Washington; NIiss Helen Reilly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Kenneth Weber, Ridgefield, \\rashington.

Correction

In the December 15 issue it stated that Paul Robins was associated w'ith Earl F. White as a salesman. This was in error, as Mr. Robins has joined the sales staff of Earl F. Wood, Los Angeles, lvholesale lumber dealer.