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AFPI Inaugurates New Forestry Service for Editors

Washington, D. C.-Newest AFPI service to America's newspaper and magazine publishers is a proof book of forestry feature stories, photographs, cartoons and editorials. Copies of the proof book are now in the mail to publishers in all 48 states.

The nerv AFPI proof book lists 34 difierent mats, all available without charge. These include 14 two-column forestry photographs with captions, 8 two-column feature stories with photographs and captions, 4 one-column cartoon strips featuring "\\'oody" and several editorial cartoons and charts.

The new proof book is intended as a companion piece for the already widely used "ready-made" advertising series issued each year by American Forest Products Industries.

Stories and pictures used in the new industry-sponsored editorial aid book cover all major phases of the forest industry and all regions. Materials listed in the proof book should be requested from American Forest Products Industries, 1319 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Installs Two New Dry Kilns

McKinney Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, recently completed the construction of two new dry kilns. They now have three l<ilns with a drying capacity of 80_0,000 to 1,000,000 feet of lurnber a month.

The company carries on a wholesale hardwood lurnber busitress and the commercial kiln drying of lumber. They dry all lcinds of domestic and imported woods to the buyer's specifications.

Arthur S. McKinney is president of the firm, and his brother, Stephen A. McKinney, is secretary-treasurer. Verlon D. McKinney, Arthur's son, is vice president.

Verlon D. McKinney and M. S. Lemore are outside salesrnen calling on the Southern California lumber yards and industrial trade.

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Bob Hathaway, formerly with E. M. Burke Lumber Co., San Rafael, and recently with Dicknsons Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now a member of the office staff of Hill & Morton. Inc.. Oakland.

Appointed to U. S. Chamber ol Commerce Comrnittee

\Arilliam Wallace Mein, Jr., vice president of Calaveras Cement Cornpany, San Francisco, has been appointed to.membership on the Natural Resources Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

The committee meets twice a year, once in Washington, D.C., and once in Chicago, Illinois. It advises the board of directors of the U. S. Chamber on matters affecting the extractive mineral industries, and is charged with developing and recommending policies in that field.

\{ein performs a similar function as a member of the National Minerals Advisory Council, which gives policy guidance to Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman.

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