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We note that there is being held a "Queen of the Forest" Contest in conjunction with the Forest Products Day of California, an event at the State Fair this September. No doubt one of the qualifications for the lucky winner will be a pair of good-looking limbs !

Word reaches us that Bert Holdren of the "kite" area has filled his swimming pool with martinis. He claims it is now impossible to drown since the deeper you sink the lighter you get !

In charge of promotion of National Forest Products Week by Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club fill7 are Al Beals, chairman. Bill Davidson and Buss Klassen.

Does it pay to advertise? The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce be- lieves so. The current issue of Fortune magazine contains the largest ad ever published in a national magazine, a 34-page spread entitled "The Southern California Story," sponsored by the L.A. Chamber. The ad depicts the booming growth of business and itrdustry in the Southland.

"Dean of Iowa Lumbermen" is a title which could well belong to "8G year-young" Fred W. Smith, Richland, Iowa. Smith, reports the Long-Bell Division of International Paper Company, has been a Long-Bell customer since before the turn of the century.

"Mr. Smith has been in the lumber and hardware business at one location since 1892. certainlv a record for Iowa and probably close to a record anywhere," states Robert E. Creel, International Paper Company wood preserving sales representative of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Fred Smith has no thought of retirement, and is active daily doing work which would make men 25 years younger lie down and rest. lfe is assisted in his operation by his son-inlaw Andy George.

Two other veteran lumbermen and long-time Long-Bell customers for many decades operate in this same region. L. W. Pickard has been in the lumber business since 1908 in nearby East Pleasant Plain, and 4O miles away in Deeo River Charles E. Axtell is in his 62nd year as active head of his business.

John M. Prince, chairman of the Hardwood Plywood Institute Membership Committee, has announced that the Board of Directors have approved the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company's Tullalah, Louisiana plant for Institute membership.