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rience. In 1941 he was made vice-president and general manager of the Alameda plant, and in l95l he was elected president of the plant in San Francisco as well as Alameda.

Lumbermen

\(/illiam Chatham, Jr.

One cannot understand a man merely by what is known of him in business. It takes a knowledge of his hobbies and other interests to get his m€asure. The trade may know Bill Chatham as the president of Loop Lumber Company and I-oop Lumber & Mill Company, one of the very suecessful retail, wholesale and sawmill operators in the northern end of the state. In his office are some attractive works of art. One is a beautiful wood carving of a man in clerical robes, long and slender and fitting against the wall, done in a very modern style, entirely pleasing. It was carved with a jack knife. Another wood carving is in the corner, and on the wall is a fancy rifle which he made himself. Inserted in the paneling of the wall is a very good water color of the Redwoods.

Wednesdays and Sundays during the season he goes duck hunting; other times he is out looking for steel head in the northern streams of the state. From his boyhood he had a passion for hunting, and while his father thought that he was wasting too much time, yet it was responsible in a way for his later success in the lumber business. In tramping through the wilds of Mendocino County in his early hunting days, he made the acquaintance of many natives of the county, farmers and settlers. At the start of the last world war, when lumber was scarce and hard to get, he went back to some of his old friends, and was'able to line up timber land and a mill which provided his company amply through the war and continues to be a vital operation.

Mr. Chatham was born in San Francisco in 1905, attended the Polytechnic High School and then, after working awhile in the lumber business, went through Stanford in three years. In his younger days he was employed by the Union Lumber Company in Mendocino County, the Northwestern Redwood Company at Willits, and on the persuasion of his father, who was president of the I-oop Lumber and Mill Company, he came back to Alameda'and entered his father's plant. Subsequently he *o.kid as a salesman for four y""tr, figured estimates in the office and did other work to round out his expe-

Mr. Chatham has developed his company into one of the biggest of its kind in the state, with a mill capacity of better than 100,(XX) feet per day. They also have machinery for some of the largest re-saw jobs. Their equipment has a capacity for timber 34 by 34 inches and includes a planer that handles four sides up to 25 by 25 inches. Stocks run oyer two million feet of Redwood and Fir each and one million feet of timbers up to 20 by 20 inches and to 48 feet in length. Perhaps his greatest pride is his new sorter and grader machinery, most of which he designed himself. In addition to the Fir cuttings, the sorter is able to handle 45,000 feet of Redwmd a day which comes from their Fort Ross Redwood mill.

Bill Chatham received excellent traioios in the lumber btrsiness from his father, who was recognizd :ul one of tte leading retail lumber men of the state. He died lasi'year at the ripe old age of eightv-nine years. Bill Chatham was married to thc former Lorraine Watt in 1931, and they have two children, William Chatham III and.I-ee Caroline Chatham. Their home is in Alameda.

His affiliations are numerous and important. They include: Alameda Rotary Club; Alameda Community Chest Advisory Committee; Alameda Council Boy Scouts of America; Alameda Boys' Club; Alameda Elk's Club No. l0l5; Alamed-a Chamber of Commerce, Oakliand Chamber of Commerce, California State Chamber of Commerce; Encinal Yadrt Club; Athens Club; Home Builders of Alameda County; Oakland Builders' Exchange ; California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Committee; Lumbermen's Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 (Past President) ; Stanford Alumni Association; University Club of Oakland; Navy I-eague of the United States; and mernber, Advisory Board, Bank of America, Alameda Branch-

Appointed Head of Indurtry Divirion

Washington, D. C.-A North Carolina man, William S. Edmunds, of I-ake Waccamaw, has been named to head the industry division of Americah Forest Products Industries, fnc. I\{r. Edmunds' appointment was announced by AFPI's managing director, C. A. Gillett.

Mr. &lmunds took over his new duties in AFPI's Washington office in mid-November. As head of the industry division he will direct and plan the services AFPI reinrlarly pro-. vides for the lumber, pulp and pa.per and allied.wood products processors of the United States.

Prior to joining American Forest Products Industries for a special field assignment in South Carotina last January, Mr. Edmunds served as executive director of the North Carolina Forestry Association fOr a period of four years. fn that capacity he organized'and served as director of the industryencouraged Keep North Carolina Green campaign in forest fire prevention education. He also administered the Tree Farm programs in that staie.

Mr. Edmunds has had wide experience i4.foregry and public relations fields and during World War II served as a captain in the U. S. Air Force.