Rowlings Ends 27 Years' Service

for heavy construction, concrete form panels and exterior plywood.

His plans are indefinite at the present time but he assures us that with veneer for skin and glue for blood, he should be back in the plywood business before long.

9 New Woshington Tree Fqrms

Nine small West Coast tree farms in Washington's Mason county were certified recently in a streamlined procedure aimed at speeding up the examination and acceptance of farm woodlots into the select tree farm group.

Wayne I. Rawlings, a protege of the late Charles Buckner, resigned from Harbor Plywood Corporation on July 14, aller 27 years in the warehouse distribution of Plyrvoods in the San Francisco Bay area. His experience started in 7926 t'ith the Maris Plywood Company in the w;irehouse, aclvanced to sales in 1930 and continued in that capacity r'hen Maris Plywood merged with Harbor Plywood Corporation in 1937.In 1941 he was made general manager and vice president of Harbor Plyrvood Corporation of California.

Charlie Buckner and Wayne Rawlings are credited with pioneering many "firsts" in the use of plywood with the industrial field in California; among them are gusset plates

A year ago, the Industrial Forestry Association-West Coast tree farm certifying agency-established a threeman special Mason county sub-committee to develop small tree farms in Mason county.

Total acreage in the nine new tree farms is 6,046 acres rvhich brings the total West Coast tree farm certified acreage to 4,207,407 acres in 151 tree farms. Western Washington has 98 and western Oregon 53 tree farms.

Government Helped Toxpoyers

Nearly twelve million income taxpayers in the United States called on the goVernment for help in preparing their their income tax returns for 1952, durine the first three months oI 1953. This service cost the government more than six million dollars.