FERN TRUCKING COMPANY

Ofiers Combined Service Of:

Named Assistint in Technical Service Department

Trucking

Ccrr Unlocding

Pool Ccr Distribution

Sorting

Sticking lor Air Drying

Storing ol Any Qucrntity ol Forest Products

Ten Hecrvy Duty Trucks cmd Trcrilers

Fourteen 3-Axle All Purpose Army Lumber Trucks

Seven 16,000 lb. Lilt Trucks

Twenty-Sevea Acres Pcved Lcurd crt Two Locations

Sen'ed by L A. Iunction Rcrilrocrd

Shed Spcrce lor Two Million Bocrrd Feet

Spur Trcrck to Accommodcrte Thirty Ecrilroad Ccrs

Bccked by Twenty-two yecrrs oI Experience ia Hcrudling Lumber crnd Forest Products

This Compcrny [s Owned cad Opercrted by FERN-csrdo I. Nesri

4550 Mcryurood Ave., Los Angeles ll

JEfferson 7261

Robert E. Eby, former lieutenant colonel in the army air force and engineering graduate of Oregon State College, has just been named assistant in the technical service department of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, according to H. V. Simpson, executive vice president.

Eby will work. under T. K. May, director of technical service. This department acts as coordinator between the lumber industry and forest products laboratories at Oregon State College and Madison, Wisconsin, keeping lumbermen informed on technilogical advances in wood use. May and Eby work with cities and public agencies on building codes; in various phases of research and aid in expanding the use of forest products as a structural and engineering material.

Eby was reared in Clatskanie, Oregon. He attended Oregon State College for two years prior to entering the army in 1941. He served five years in the army air corps, including 26 months in England. He flew 105 combat missions, won the air medal and six clusters and the DFC and tr'vo clusters. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering at Oregon State College, graduating in 1948. He worked in the sawmill and logging industry as a young man.

He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Sigma Tau, engineering honorary. He is married and has two daughters. He will make his home in Portland and will office at the West Coast Lumbermen's Association headquarters.

Dock Dcrmcged by Fire

Longview, Wash., Aug. 4-Damage by fire to the halfmile long dock of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. was estimated at $750,000. Officials prepared to shift its shipping operations to railroads until a new dock can be constructed. No ships were docked at the time of the fire.