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The 22nd annual Los Angeles County Fair opened in Pomona on September 16 for a seventeen day run, with Miss Jo Anne Curran as Queen. Jo Anne is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald V. Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona, and granddaughter of the late Charles P. Curran, who was one of the organizers of the fair and served as is president for 11 years before his death in 1933.

New Newspcrper

Forest Board News, a newspaper put out by the Forest Fiber Products Company of Forest Grove, Ore., will be mailed to 2000 lumber dealers each month to tell them about advertising plans of the company, new uses and suggestions, etc. A special monthly feature will be a dealer story outlining his problems and successes.

Scnn Mullin Appointed Scrles Mcrncrger

Sam Mullin, formerly assistant sales manager, has been appointed sales manager of special products for the Western Division of Monsanto Chemical Company. At the same time, Harry Galber, formerly director of sales development, adhesives, was appointed sales manager of that division.

Philip Mixsell is Mcncrger

E. J. Maroney, sales manager, announces the appointment of Philip Mixsell as manager of the Micarta Division, United States Plywood Corporation. Mr. Mixsell has been a member of the company's sales staff in Neward for the past five years; and before that was a departmental sales manager for Elliott-Lewis Corporation of Philadelphia.

AFPI Appointment

Edwin R. Butler has joined American Forest Products Industries, Inc., Washington, D. C., as assistant managing director. He was public relations director for the Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. before coming to AFPI.

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American Society hr Testing Materials Meets in San Francisco Oct. 12 and 13

Below are the two programs for the two sessions on Wood of the American Society for Treating Materials, to be held on Wednesday, Octob er 12, and Thursday, October 13, in the Golden Empire Room, Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco.

Wednesday, October L2, 9:00 a.m., continued 2:00 p.m.

Chairman, Prof. Emanuel Fritz, University of Califomia, Berkeley.

"The Field of Work of the American Society for Treating Materials and Committee D-7 on Wood," L. J. Markwardt, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., and Chairman of Committee on Wood.

"International Standardization of Methods of Testing Wood,"-W. E. Wakefield, Forest Products Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada.

"The Program of Pole Tests Under the Sponsorship of Subcommittee VII on Wood Poles and Cross Arms,"L. J. Markwardt, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

"Plywood and Veneer, Methods of Tests, Definitions, and Species Classifications,"-J. A. Liska, U' S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

"Progress in the Development of Accelerated Tests for livaluating the Integrity of Glue Joints,"-F. J' Hanrahan, National Lumber Manufactttrers Association, Washington, D. C.

"Wood Preservation and Review of Recent A.S.T.N. Specifications for Wood Preservativ€s,"-p. H. Bescher, Wood Preserving Division, Koppers Co., Inc., Orrville, O.

Thursday, October 13, 9:00 a.m.

"studies of the Strength of Glued Laminated Wood Construction,"-4. L. Freas, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

"Correlation Between Results of Wood-Failure Tests and Actual Durability of Exterior Douglas Fir Plywood," -N. S. Perkins, Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash.

"Mechanical Properties of Second-Growth Douglas Fir," -J. B. Alexander, Forest Products Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.

"Properties of Old-Growth Douglas Fir Infected with Fomes Pini,"-J. R. Stillinger, Oregon Forest Products Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon.

"Mechanical Properties of Second-Growth Redwood, and Comparison with Virgin Timber,"-Emanuel Fritz, IJniversity of California, Berkeley, Calif.

Note.-The papers on Wood and Wood Products were arranged by Committee D-7 on Wood as part of its committee meeting program.

How To Mcrke a Chair

United States Plyrvood Corporation has just issued a four-page brochure, with diagrams, describing how an occasional Weldwood chair, simple in design, can be made easily and inexpensively in a home workshop' The plans sell for 10c.