Forest Products Controls Removed

On February 18th the government announced the immediate lifting of price controls at all levels from all lumber and wood products; coal; farm machinery and equipment; non-metallic building materials.

The exemption covers logs, poles, piling, lumber, ties, plywood, millwork, turned and shaped wood products, wooden containers and other miscellaneous wood products, and such related services as custom sawing, planing, kiln drying, hauling, treating, and certain fabricating operations.

It applies to sales at all levels of production and distribution.

Included in the exemption are all'glass building material products; non-metallic acoustical building material prod-

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Dinner Dance

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club dinner dance held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Friday evening, February 4, 'was a very successful affair, over 200 attending. Everybody reported an enjoyable evening.

The Glee Gates Trio, strolling troubadours, provided music lrom 7:09 to 9 09 p.m., and Hal Sandak and his seven-piece orchestra furnished music for dancing until 2:N a.m. Nine door prizes were presented to the ladies holding the lucky numbers.

The Arrangements Committee included Don Bufkin, George Clough, Bob Osgood, Jim Forgie and Ole May.

Old Firm Starts New Tree Fcnur

A timber firm founded more than 100 years ago in Maine and Michigan now holds a West Coast Tree Farm certificate.

Merrill & Ring's 26,ffi-acre Pysht Tree Farm in the far northwest corner of Washington state was dedicated recently at ceremonies attended by some 60 forest industry leaders.

Speakers lauded R. D. Merrill, 83-year-old head of the company, for his foresight in retaining ownership of the tract after the virgin timber harvest and deciding to develop it for continuous timber crops.

ucts; cement; clay products; concrete products; rcady mixed concrete; g:fpsum and g1rysum products; laninatcd boards; lightweight aggregates; lime; sand; sliag; stonc; vitrified clay sewer pipe and allied products.

It is provided in the exemption order that deders handling the items now decontrolled must preservc rccor& of past prices and sales, but need not keep records of future transactions.

Some consumer items of less importance to tte lumbcr trade that were also decontrolled on ttis date include small electricd appliances, housewares, lx)wer lawn mowers, scwing machines, vacuum cleaners, floor cleaning and polishing machines, air conditioners a1d flsfurrrrridifiers.

Trcrnslered to Ceutral Stcrtes Forest

F.:cperiment

Stcrtion

Ilorvard C. Ager, administrative assistant of the Lassen National Forest, $-as promoted and transferred to the Central States Forest Experiment Station at Columbus, Ohio. as administrative officer, effective February 28, 1953, according to an announcement made today by Regional Forester Clare Hendee.

Mr. Ager's promotion and transfer is in accordance rvith Forest Service policy of advancement of career personnel rvho have demonstrated competence and superior ability in their rvork.

I!Ir. Ager graduated from the University of Montana in 1933, and began his career rvith the Forest Service as a clerk in Washington, D. C., in 1935. From 1941 to l!X3 he worked for the \\rar Department on various administrative assignments. Returning to the Forest Service in 1943, he served first as auditor and later-as fiscal inspector for the California Region. In 1947 he transferred to the Lassen Forest as Administrative assistant to the supervisor, rrhich position he has held to the present.

"DowSing," the skill exhibited by certain individuals rvho locate water rvith a trvig, is an ancient custom that rvas practiced by the Chinese rvho favored the peach, and the Druids who favored the apple. The Romans claimed also to be able to detect buried treasure. Modern "do\f,'sers" tend to favor the rvitch-hazel.