Western Logger Turned Author Wins Award

Stewart H. Holbrook. an author whose books about the American logger have the sharp ring of an axe biting into solid wood, has received the 1963 Distinguished Service Award presented annually on behalf of the nation's forest industries by American Forest Products Industries.

The award is made each year to a nonindustry individual who ha-" contributed significantly to better public understanding of forestry, forest conservation and the role of the forest industries.

Holbrook, the only logger ever to lecture at Harvard, captured the colorful spirit of the vanished breed of pioneer logger in his first book, "Holy Old Mackinaw," and followed it with "Burning an Empire," acclaimed as an incredible and terriblv fasci-