HOBBS WALL LUMBER CO.

Distribulors ol REDWOOD LUMBER

405 llonlgomery Slreet, Son Francisco 4 Telephone GArfield l-7752 lor Angchr Oftcc-Rubr Boilcou, llonogcr 605 So. Hill Sr.-T.l.phonr llAdison 6-1576 the retail department for 35 years, was elected a vice president in charge of retail yards; L. C. Stith, who started his association with the company in the Southern operations, has been elevated from secretary-treasurer to vice president, and R. A. L. Ellis has been elected secretarytreasurer of the company.

J. H. Kenesson, who has served as assistant to Chipman, has been named general manager of the Longview division. He has been with the company since 1898. T. E. Heppenstall, formerly assistant to Tennant and a 2S-year veteran with Long-Bell, has been named chief production engineer. H. G. Kelsey, assistant to Morris, becomes assistant vice president in charge of the real estate division in Longview.

Other officers of the company continuing in their present capacities are : R. F. Morse, Longview, vice president in charge of the logging and timber department; R. P. Combs, Kansas City, vice president, and J. D. Leland, Longvieu', vice president.

Long-Bell operates 12 manufacturing plants, the largest being the Longview operation, and 119 retail lumber vards located in 10 states.

Douglcs Fir Use Book

Steadily rising costs have necessitated an increase in the selling price of the Douglas Fir Use Book, published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portland 5, Oregon. The new price, *hich includes the three Use Book supplements, is $1..50.

Opent Forest Fire Prevention Campaign

Secretary of Agriculturt Clinton P. Anderson said that the importance of forest fire prevention could not be overemphasized in our day rvhen the dependence of mankincl on ample and productive natural resources is reflected in every page of current history. The record s{rows that nations rise as their natural resources are developed and rvane if these are exhausted through unwise and rvasteful use, he added.

The statement was made in connection with the opening of the sixth annual nation-wide Forest Fire Prevention Campaign u'hich lvas announced jointly by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Association of State Foresters, and the Advertising Council.

"We can't prevent the 10 per cent of our forest fires that results from lighting," said the Secretary, "but certainly each one of us can be sure that he does not contribute to starting the other 90 per cent throqgh a lighted match dropped in the rvoods, a neglected campfire or other inexcusable carelessness."

Wholesalers Set Meeting Dcte

The date for the annual meeting of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association has been set for June I and 2, the place Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. This will be the 56th annual meeting of the group, which maintains headquarters at 41 East 42nd Street, New York, with its western office locat'ed at 1308 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.