U. S. Forest Servicc Advisory Council Discusses Type Convcrrion Prograrn

Carl F. Wente, president, Bank of America, San Francisco, and Bestor Robinson, attorney, Oakland, were elected chairman and vice chairman of the U. S. Forest Service Advisory Council for calendar year 1953 at the regular Spring meeting held in San Francisco'on February 18.

The Advisory Council has been serving Regional Forester Clare Hendee and Director S. N. Wyckoft of the California Forest and Ranger Experiment Station since 1948 in National Forest administration and research policies and program matters for the California Region of the Forest Service.

Members of the Council, in addition to Wente and Robinson, are John H. Guthrie, vice president, American National Livestock Association, Porterville; A. B. Hood, general manager, Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson; Barney Mayes, technical advisor, Western Federation of Butchers of California, San Francisco; Dr. MacDonald H. Mclaughlin, president, Homestake Mining Corporation, San Francisco; Samuel B. Mordris, general manager and chief engineer, Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles; William B. Smullin, president, Redwood Broadcasting Company, Eureka; and Dr. Harry R. Wellman, vice president, Agriculture Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Others attending the meeting were Paul F. Sharp, director, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of California, Berkeley, and Lloyd Lowrey, assemblyman from the third California District, Rumsey.

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