Colgan Resigns As National Leader -

Kendall Takes Job Temporarily

Washington, D. C., July 9-R. A. Colgan, Jr., has resigned as executive vice president of the National I-umber Manufacturers Association. He is leaving July 11 for California to manage 600,000 acres of forest property of Shasta Forest (iompany, with headquarters at Redding, but will return to Washington in September to complete some pending assignments.

Mr. Colgan came to NLMA in 1945 from Chico, California, where he was production manager of the California timber and lumber operations for the Diamond Match Company. It.was under his direction that 218,000 acres of the compan'."s California forest holdings lvere managed on a sustained yield basis and certified as a Tree Farm. Just prior to his quarter century of service rvith Diamond Match, he was forest assistant in wood research at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin.

A forestry graduate of Michigan State College in 1913, Mr. Colgan has been a lumberman for over 30 years. $ecause of his outstanding leadership in forest conservation,

Longshoremen Strike Setded

A longshore strike against all steam schooner operations on the Pacific Coast as of 3:00 p.m. on July 17 was announced by the fnternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The union is seeking an extra $1.00 an hour for handling packaged lumber. The present wage for working lumber is $1.97 an hour.

Three lumber schooners were tied up at Los Angeles Harbor.

A settlement of the wage dispute rvas reached on July 25 in San Francisco. Basis of the settlement was a Zi-cent an hour bonus for stevedores handling packaged lumber.

Ole May, American Mailing Co., Los Angeles, ancl Mrs. May, returned from an enjoyable vacation to Hawaii on July 22. They made the trip over in the S.S. Cleveland and the return trip by plane.

he was named an honorary vice president of The American Forestry Association this year. He is also a member of the Society of American Foresters, a Director of the American Standards Association and Chairman of the Lumber Survey Cornmittee of the Department of Commerce.

The interests of the lumber industry have been greatly expanded under Mr. Colgan's guidance. He brought about a rvide-ar,r,ake attitude towards national affairs and stimulated a more active participation in the fight to preserve private enterprise. With his direction, NLMA has developed one of the most aggressive legislative programs of any American industry.

Mr. Colgan has been succeeded ternporarily by Harry T. Kendall, of St. Paul, Minn., Chairman of the Board of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, and for some time past a director of National. Mr. Kendall has agreed to help out in this important manner until the annual meeting of National next November, at which time the Board of Directors will act to filI the office permanently.

New Wholesale Lumber Firm

Vic Harbaugh and Bob McDonnell have organized a wholesale lumber companv and rvill operate as the Harbaugh & I\{cDonnell Lumber Sales at 8548 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles 46. The telephone numbers are BRadsharv 2-7440 and CRestvieu' 5-1588.

Both are rvell knorvn to the.Southern California Lumber trade. Vic has had many years experience in the lumber business and for the past two years was Los Angeles manager for Hill & Nlorton, Inc. Bob was with the U.S. Gypsum Co. in Los Angeles and Long Beach for the past six years and prior to that was associated rvith the lvholesale lumber business in San Francisco and Denver

Will Close For Vccqtion

J. di Cristina & Son, San Francisco, u'ill close their mill, office and installation departrnents in Saturday, August 11, for their ernnual two-week vacation. Thev tvill resume operations on Nfonday, August 27.