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Members ol Weyerhoeuser Timber Compcrny's executive commitlee crnd ollicers oI the compcnY inspecl typiccl signbocrd which will identily lirm's tree lqrm creqs in Or"gon cnd Wcshingion. LeIt to right: Hcrry E. Morgon, mcnqger ol Longview, Wcsh., brqnch opercrtion; F K' w.y.rho.os"r, president, wJy.rho",,""r Sqle-s company cni directori Jo_e Nolcn genercl counsel; f. P' Weyerhceuser, Jr', president, Weyerhcre-user Timber Compqrry; w. L. McCormick directoi <rni vice president Lcird Bell, chairmcn oI bocrd ol directors; Arthur Kcrrlen, production -or.og"t, Lo"grri.* brcnc-h op"totiot; Dcrvid Grqhcrm, finoncicf vice president, Weyerhceuser Timber Comp<rny; FrcnkWclling, mcnoger, Lumber Division, io"o-o, l.ii"" Cnpp, iirector; George S, Long. Jr,, lecretary; Edmund Hcyes, director qnd vice presidenu Chcrles H. Ingrcm, vice president cnd genercl mondger, Tccomq.

Longview, Wash. ;Tree farm areas of the \\reyerhaeuser Timber Company are being identified publicly in a signboarding program recently initiated on the St. Helens Tree Farm in Corvlitz County, Washington. Signlloards bearing the names of the comPanv and the local tree farm unit are to be piaced on major highr,vays which pass through the firm's tu'elve certified farms in Oregon ar-rd Washington'

Since it organized the nation's first tree farm in 1941, the Clemons in Grays Harbor Cottnty, \Vashington. \\reyerhaeuser has made tl.re tree farm program an essential part of its sustaine<l procluction program, to assttre a continuing supply of logs for dependent processing plants' In less than eigl-rt years the tree farm program has been adopted na-

Ray Story and Tex Rushing, experienced lttmbermen, havc organizecl the Acrne Fence & I-umber Company, at Sarr Carlos, California, u'here they are manufacturing redu'ood fences.

tionally by over 1700 timberland ou'ners in 23 states' managing 17l million acres of private forests. Over 3 million acres of this acreage is in the Douglas fir region of rvestern C)regon and \\rashington, the r'vood basket of the United States.

Certified tree farmers must maintain a desigr.rated area of land for permanent procluction of forest c:ops; protect the area from fire, insects, disease and excessive grazing, ancl harvest the timber in a manner l'hich u'i1l assure futrlre crops. \\reyerhaeuser's tree farm area, coupled n'ith greater utilization of the forest harvest in the s'oods and at the mil1, rvill insure steady jobs and perlllanent payroils'

C. \\r. Buckner, sales engineer, Harbor Pl1 poration, Hocluiant, had his Cltrysler car stolen recent bnsiness trip to Los Angeles. The car erccl in three clays, apparently undanraged' rvood Corl'hen on a was recov-