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New Foces on FPt Gouncil

Richmond-Four leading lumbermen have been appointed to three-year terms on tl-re Technical Advisory Council of the University of California's Forest Products Laboratory, according to Director Fred E. Dickinson. New faces at the Council's semiannual n-reeting in December were l,ester J. Carr, president of the L. J. Carr Company, Sacramento; Ralph Hodges, Jr., forester with the Big Bear Timber Company, Sacramento; Byrne Manson, products development engineer at the Simpson Redwood !9n1pan1', Arcata, and Alfred Smith, general manager of the Union Planing Mill, Stockton.

The 12-man Council, composed of executives representing a cross-section of California timber and wood oroducts industries. meets with the director and members of thi staff to help plan research programs for the U.C. Laboratory. Current projects include experimental work on wood drying, gluing, wood extractives, wood fiber products, chemical processing, and the rr-rechanical properties of wood.

Council ofrficers for the current year include Chaim.ran A. W. Agnew (vice-president of the Pacific Coast Company, Plywood Division, Sonoma) ; Vice-Chairman A. B. Hoocl (general manager of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson), and Secretary Eddy S. Feldman (executive secretary of the Furniture Manufacturers Association of California, Los Angeles).

Cement Associotion Shifrs

The appointment of Warren G. Burres as district engineer of the Los Angeles office of the Portland Cement Association is announced by James D. Piper, vice-president for Promotion. Burres assumed his new duties December 15. He succeeds John M. McNerney, who was recently ap- pointed Western Regional manager for the association. Walter E,. Kunze, Jr. will succeed Burres as personnel training manager.