New Officers For long-Bell's Vernonio

It was announced in these columns tr'vo months ago that The Long-Bell Lumber Company, of Kansas City, Mo., and Longvierv, Wash., had purchased the controlling ownership of the Oregon-American Lumber Corporation, at Vernonia, Ore. Management of the properties was immediately taken over by the Long-Bell executives. They likewise took over Judd Greenman, r,vho was president and general manager of the former company, and who continues as general manager for Long-Bell. Mr. Greenman, a highly popular and competent lumberman, has been running the Vernonia plant from the time it was built.

Vernonia is located 31 miles southrvest of Longview, where Long-Bell operates one of the world's largest milling institutions. The sawmill cuts 50,000,000 board feet of lumber annually, and employs about 600 people. The sawmill is equipped with two band headrigs, a horizontal resaw, gang saw, and timber sizer. There are eight planing machines and two moulders in the planing mill. Vernonia kiln dries a larger proportion of its cut that most big fir mills, using 35 dry kilns to dry most of its lumber.

Twenty thousand acres of land, part of it still covered with virgin timber, went with the purchase, and the remainder of the acreage is being tree farmed.

Following are the new officers of the company: J. H.

Kennesson, president; J. D. I-eland, Stith, vice president; R. A. L. E,llis, assistant treasurer; K. G. Hanson, Klingberg, assistant secretary.

vice president; L. C. treasurer: F. M. Ruhl, secretarl-: a.nd J T.

Foresl Service Will Hire Smokeiumpers

About 250 smokejumpers will be hired by- the Forest Service this year to parachute to back-countrv forest fires in the West, according to a recent announcenlent by the Forest Service. This elite corps of specialists m:tke up the first line of defense on fires in remote roadless areas' Twenty-five of these expert fire fighters are stationed at Cave Junction, Oregon (32 miles south of Grants Pass) to leave on a minute's notice to put out fires starting in remote mountainous areas of Oregon and Califorrlia" Other smokejumper bases are at Missoula, \'[ontana, arltl McCall, Idaho.

A smokejumper group consisting of eight t:ren made twenty-five fire jumps in the California natic,rlal forests last year.

Getting to fires when they are small by means of aerial transport prevents thousands of acres from bttrning and saves the expenses involved in controlling a large hre in remote roadless areas.

Recent research at Oregon Forest Products Laboratory reveals that western hardwoods u''hen properlv handled compare very favorably with eastern hardwoods.

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