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tole Students See lumber Compony

' Fordyce, Ark.-The Fordyce Lumber Company and the Yale School of Forestry joined forces recently to provide practical field work for nine Yale forestry students taking part in a twelve-week Arkansas teaching session under a Yale staff which includes Dr. Walter H. Meyer, Harriman professor of Forest Management at Yale, Dr. Herbert L

Winer, assistant professor of lumbering, and Bill Thompson, instructor at the School of Forestry.

Mill Superintendent Charles Hagins took the group through the sawmill,,planing mill, and flooring plant durin| the morning of the first day. In the afternoon and during the following morning actual forestry work was observed in the woods. High point of the tour was the inspection of areas treated by controlled burning techniques, chemical foliage spraying, and girdling . . all in prepalation for the bumper seed crop of 1957. The unique ground-spraying techniques developed by the company were fully explained.

Officials of the company including E. C. Gates, president of the Fordyce Lumber Company, were hosts at a dinner given the students on the final evening.

Victor Olson Retires from G-P Post

Portland, Ore.-Victor Olson, vice-president of westem plywood production for Georgia-Pacific Corporation and one of the pioneer figures in the plywood industry, is retiring in accordance with corporation policy which calls for retirement at age 65. He was recently feted here by other officers of Georgia-Pacific and presented with a silver service by Chairman of the Board Owen R. Cheatham.

Olson joined Georgia-Pacific Corporation as vice-president in charge of western plywood production in 1954. In 1941, he built Bellingham Plywood Corporation, which Georgia-Pacific acquired ln 1947 as its first western property. With acquisition of Washington Veneer Company and Springfield Plywood Company, he was made president of these two G-P subsidiaries. His industry contributions include many years as a member of the manag'ement committee of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association and a term as vice-president.

Arf Evqns Returns South

-Not all the way-but as far south as Santa Barbara. Art, who for 18 years handled purchasing, sales and distribution for the Diamond Match Co., spent several years in Ilonolulu in the lumber business with Hawaiian Factors, and operated his own wholesale venture in partnership with I. S. Brown in Glendale, has left Oakland to take over the manag'ement of Channel City Plywood & Lumber Co. in Santa Barbara.

Art Evans is well known throughout theu'lumber frater- nity in the west. At one time he managed the affairs of Hanson-Pacific Corporation in Southern California. He is known in the plywood field from having managed the Atlas warehouse in Oakland for a period of time. Channel City Plywood & Lumber Company is located at 730 Punta Gorda, adjacent to the north and south freeway. Art and his wife Lee have established residence at 120 Depot Road, near the Santa Barbara Biltmore.

USDA R.epods Increcrse in Amount of Wood Preservqfives Treqted

More wood was treated with preservatives at commercial plants in 1957 than in 1956, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the American Wood Preservers' Association. The preliminary report, based on information {rom 318 of the 357 known wood treating plants, shows that259.5 million cubic feet of wood were treated ]n 1957-2 million cubic feet more than in 1956. It is expected that the total amount treated tvill reach 270 million cubic feet when final reports are in.

With the prospect of increasing demand for wood as populations rise, making wood last longer is considered of growing importance as a way of conserving forest resources.

Of wood treated, 98 million cubic feet were used for crossties. The rest of the treated wood was in poles. lumber and timbers, posts, piling, switchties, .rossar-s, and wood blocks.

In 1957, some 177,158,300 gallons of creosote and coal tar were used in wood treatment, an increase of 5/. over 1956. Among solid preservatives, pentachlorophenol ranks first with 1b_out 11,166,570 pounds used, a decrease of 15/o from 1956.

(Tell them Aou sau it in The California Lumber Merchant)