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Heighr: 8 feet Widrh: 4 feet Weighr: 25 pounds roads, fire trails, water supply sources, and modern fire fighting equipment, all supplemented by rvell-trained logger firemen.

Everybody goes for Gorgeous Sketchwood. Hds hard on the surface, but ah! What texture! Gorgreous Sketchwood glows. A versatile fellow, he's seen everywhere... in dens, rumpus rooms, basement rooms, stores, offices, club rooms. And he's SO adaptable! His style suits everybody! Yes...he's gorgeous !... and he fights for you at a very small purse. He'll soon be playing to packed houses everywhere!

Visitors at the Van Duzen River Tree Farm will soon see more Tree Farms in the redu'ood belt. During the dedication cerenronies, Sherman A. Bishop, general manager of the California Redu'ood Association, announced that the Tree Farm committee of his Association has approved Tree Farm applications for slightly over 108,000 acres of timber in the redu'ood region. The State system of redwood parks and other stands publicly orvned comprise 72,000 acres of timber. Tree Farms, then-less than six months old-are well in the lead.

Books

The second edition of "An Introduction to American Forestry" has just been published. Written by Shirley Walter Allen, Professor of Forestry, School of Forestry and Conservation, University of Michigan, it is a moderate revision of the first edition. Changing techniques and policies of American forestry, new methods of forest planting, protection from fire, insects, disease, and storm, etc. l-rave all been incorporated in this new edition. The fina1 chapter on forestry and national planning has been rewritten and points out the agencies and studies involved in planning for forestry on a national scale by both private and public enterprise.

Copies are $4.50 each and from the McGralv-Flill Book Company, Inc., 330 W. .lZnd St., Nerv York 18, N.Y.

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RUSS CASTEIL & ASSOCIATES mointoin direct communicqlions with Lumber Producing Mills throughout the counlry ond no moller whol you need in the Building lloleriqls line-odds ore len lo one we con get it for you. Our procuremenl ond mqrkeling stoff ore os close lo you os your telephone-offering fqsl, efficienl service lo our lrode. We furnish q wide voriety of moteriql qnd con qssure prompl delivery in mixed cors or stroight. In focl, we ore experls in securing producls thol qre in demond. A telephone coll to us will meon lhose EXTRA PROFITS lo you!

Harry \(/hittemore Organizes Company in Los Angeles

Harry E. Whittemore has resigned his association with L. W. MacDonald Co., Los Angeles, to go into business for himself September 1. He has organized Los Angeles Lumber, Inc., rvith offices at 815 General Petroleum Building, I-os Angeles 17. The telephone number is MAdison 6-9134. Teletype number is LA 1160.

1\{r. Whittemore, one of the most widely knorvn of Southern California lumbermen, has been in the lumber busirress for 30 years, and hopes to keep on serving his Iumber dealer friends, rvith his definite policy of selling Iumber dealers only.

I{e rvas rvith Benson Lumber Company, San Diego, for' 19 years. His experience there included lumber manufacturir.rg, and u'l.rolesale and retail selling. He was associated u'ith L. W. MacDonald Co. for the past two years.

N{r. Whittemore \ ras president cf the Southern California Retail Lumber Association in 1942, and prior to that date \\ias a director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association for about 10 years.

Kenneth Shipp Named Vice President Nationctl Plywood Distributors Assoc'n

Kenneth Shipp, owner of California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, rvith branch warehouses in Sacramento and Fresno, and factory in Richmond, Calif., was elected vice president of the National Plywood Distributors.Association at the recent Sth annual meeting held in the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago.

W. W. Logan, Sr., Logan Lumber Co., Tampa, Florida, is the new president of the Association.

Fir d Pine Lumber Co. Moves to Burbank

Fire & Pine Lumber Company has moved to a larger site :rt 20 East Alan.reda Street, Burbank. The site is three acres in cxtent. A neu' office building has been constructed, and also a new steel storage shed.

This company is Southern California representative o{ Klamath.Basin I'ine Mills Corp. J. H. Stovall is manager. The nerv telephone number is CHarleston 0-8146.

Back Panel Compcny Seling Pfiilippine Mcrhogcny Siding

Back Panel Company, Los Angeles, is handling the Mahogany Importing Company's Philippine Mahogany siding. The first shipment arrived August 22.