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Foresters Will Address Architects

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Estcblishes Fellowship ctt Northwestern University

Tacoma, \\'ashington-Weyerhaeuser Timber Foundation has estat'lished a fellowship in wood chemistry at Northwestern lJniversity ( Evanston, Illinois), it was announced by J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., WTF chairman.

The fellowship provides $2000 a year for three years and n'ill be administered by Northwestern's chemistry departmeat. The university will select the graduate studerrt to whom the fellowship grant will be made. Dr. Charles D. Hurd was named by the university to be director of the fellowship.

Northr,v'estern is the sixth educational institution to be granted WTF fellowships. Fellowships in forestry, pulpand-papermaking and management development previously have been established at University of Washington, Oregon State College, Institute of Paper Chemistry (Wisconsin), Yale University and University of Chicago.

Bill Heath, gener:'l manager of R. S. Company of l-os Angeles, is spending a at the plywood mills lining up material mer demand.

Off to Europe

The American Institute of Architects cr-'nvention in Seattle, Jrrne l5 to 19, will hear Ernest L. Kolbe, chief forester for the Wcstern Pine Association talk on "Perpetuation of forest resources" ; also W. C. Hammerle, chief forester for the Southcrn l'ine Association, and \\'m. I{agenstein, chief forester for tl.re Incltrstrial Forestrv Association tvill discuss the samc subject.

Carl A. Rasmussen, heacl of the \\'esterr-r Pine Association rcsearch laboratories, :rnd L. J. trIarkwardt, assistant director of U.S. Iiorest Products Laboratory at l\'Iadison, \\'is., will talk on the specific utilizat:on of u'ood. H. \'. Sirnpson, \Mest Coast Lrrn.rberrnen's Association '*'ill be a speaker.

Dee Esley

Jerry Essley

Woyne Wilson

Chuck Lember

Plywoocl few days for sum-

IIrs. Benjamin Carlow, mother of Jack Carlow head of the Carlon Door \Ianufacturing Cominny of l-os Angeles, and an officer of the concern, headed for Europe today via Neu' York antl Canada. She u'as accompanied by Annette Carlorv, wife oi Jack, and his sister IIrs. Wilford Garfinkel.

Follorving an extended trip throughout the east and middle rvest the laclies u'ill flv transatlantic to Europe rvhere they rvill visit plyrvood mills in Norway and Italv combining business with pleasure on a three months junket- Plans will be carried out to procure materials from both couutries for the manufacture of slab doors by the Carlon organization. Thev rvill return to Los Angeles earlf in October.

Morse Is New IFA Chcdrman

Roy F. Morse, until recently an active vice president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company has been elected chairman of the Industrial Forestry Association, succeeding E. P. Stamm. This organization and its predecessors founded and certified West Coast tree farrns in the Douglas Fir region, and is charged with improving stanclards of forest practices on private forest lands in the region.

John Moore, assistant general manager of Fir Tex Los Angeles, returned to his desk a few days ago follou'ing a two rveeks' vacation spent "being lazyi' fishing and srvimming.

Names Advisory Committee

Establishment of an Advisory Committee made up of six national housing leaders was announced by Commissioner Guy T. O. Hollyday of the Federal Housing Administration. Representing both home financing and construction, the committee is composed of : Fritz Burns, Los Angeles, California; E. A. Camp, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama; Walter Gehrkc, Detroit, Michigan; Philip M. Klutznick, Park Forest, Illinois; H. J. Mendon, Los Angeles, California; James Rouse, Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Rouse will serve as Chairman of the committee.

Commissioner Hollyday pointed out that the Advisory Committee will explore the possibilities of greater contribution through FHA plans to improve housing conditions and home financing methods.

New Homebuilding Book

An eight page, four.color brochure, has just been published by the Timber Engineering Company, \\'ashington, D. C. as its latest step in accelerating the use of engineered timber construction in the home building field. It is titled Building Better Homes s'ith \\rood. The book is being distributed without charge to architects and builders b-v this research affiliate of National Lumber l\Ianufacturers Association.

The book features lvood frame Teco trussed rafters, built n,ith n'edge-fit split ring connector, that provide clear span roof construction.

'Clif and Dorothy Roberts, Benson Lumber Company manager of San Diego, spent five days during the latter part of May in Phoenix, Arizona. They plan a trip through I\Iexico early this summer and expect to leave the latter part of this month.

George D. Eubank, L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglervood, California, t'ill return this rveek from an extended vacation in \\'yoming. George spent the month of May at his ranch located near Kremmer, 'Wyoming, looking over the stock situation and more or less getting back in the saddle-so to speak.