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At their annual meeiing in Chicago on February 15, 1949, the stockholders of The Celotex Corporation elected Henry W. Collins as a director of the corporation to filI the vacancy existing because of an increase itr the size of the board.

Mr. Collins has been associated with Celotex since 1926 when he became a sales representative in the New York territory. Later, he was transferred to the midwest where he was appointed manager of the Chicago sales division, and in 1936 he went to New York in a similar capacity for that division. In 1938 he returned to Chicago as vice president in charge of merchandising. In April, 1948, Mr. Collins became executive vice president of the company.

Mr. Collins' home is in Glenview, Ill. He is a member of the North Shore Country Club and a former director of the Lake Shore Club of Chicago.

Announces Appointments

San Francisco, March l-Pope & Talbot Lines, through vice-president and general manager Gerald A. Dundon, today made the following appointments in their traffic personnel:

John A. Stein to freight traffrc manager; George I{' Bushnell to Southern California manager; Clifford L' Buell to assistant freight traffic manager and J. F. (Sam) Dunne to general freight agent, all located at San Francisco with the exception of Bushnell whose headquarters will be at Los Angeles.

In making the announcement Mr. Dundon stated, "fn line with the policy of Pope & Talbot, we have always endeavored to promote men within our own firm to positions of trust and it is with a great deal of pleasure that we announce the foregoing promotions. All of these men have been with our company for years and have demonstrated their ability in water-borne transportation to merit their new positions."

Lumber Ycrrd Robbed

The Burlingame Lumber Company, Millbrae, Calif., operated by Elmo Phillips, was broken into recently, and $145 in cash taken from the cash register and office safe'

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The California Lumber Merchant-a "B & Better" item at f4 Common Price' Ray H. Benson Bell, California

Chief Forester Urges Better Management Of Private Forests

A half-centry after Congress passed the law under which the 152 National Forests are managed by the Forest Service, Chief Lyle F. Watts said in his annual report that these public forests "still represent the largest tangiblc accomplishment in forest conservation in this country,, and are in many ways "the finest public forest system in the world."

Declaring that national security and welfare demand sound management and wise use of all forest land, Mr. Watts said that with our growing population and the steady depletion of many forests in private ownership "our national forests and other public forests undoubtedly will play an increasingly important part in the Nation's economy."

Evidence of the downward trend of the private timber supply is found in the growing demand for timber from the National Forests, he said. He pointed out that thc 3,800,000,000 board feet of timber cut on the National Forests last year was three times the prewar cut of 1,250,000,000 board feet and that "many sawmills that formerly had supplies of private timber are now wholly dependent on national forest timber to keep going."

The Chief Forester makes clear that the National Forests cannot alone do the whole job of meeting the nation's timber requirements. Although they now have 30 per cent of the sawtimber volume they include only 16 per cent o[ the country's 461,000,000 acres of commercial forest land. Furthermore, says the report, "The more accessible and potentially more productive forest lands are for the most part in private ownership. We must still rely on private lands for the bulk of our timber supply."

Continued depletion of the private timber supply, and rvidespread deterioration of watershed values as a result of poor forest practices on private forest lands, according to the report, emphasize the urgency of repeated recommendations by the Forest Service for measures which will assnre better private forest management.

These recommendations include a Federal-state plan for control "of timber cutting and related practices on private land sufficient to prevent destructive practices and to assure that the land is kept reasonably productive," with basic national standards and Federal financial assistance.

Operation and management of national forests, togethcr u'ith their protection from fire, insects and other menaccs, cost less than one-tenth of one per cent of the tax dollar, according to the report. Expenditures by the Forest Service for these purposes last year were approximately $32,000,000 while about $13,000,000 additional was spent from funds appropriated by Congress for roads, trails and tire purchase of land, part of .ivhich can be classed as capital 'investment. Operating expenses were offset, in large part, by national forest receipts, r,vhich last year totaled nearly $25,000,000, a figure that takes no account of the wealth of fublic services and benefits deriving from the nonrevenue-producing resources of these publicly owned forests.

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Milling in transit