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(Continued, lrom Page 6) show this year was especially dangerous because of high winds, but he put on a terrific show and even updated his act by substituting a twist number instead of the Charleston he did two years ago when appearing at the Fair. All this, mind you, on a f-inch cut, sixty-five feet up in the air!

The linal event was the crownins of the King of The Foresl, Danny Sailor niturally" by pretty Colleen Courtwright of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Redding, who will again reign as Queen of The Forest for t963.64.

Forest Products Day is a non-profit organization which each year brings the Lum. ber N{essaee to thousands of Californians. A large number of retailers. wholesalers and manufacturers support the project by contributions of from $10 to $50 each year. The success of the event is entirely de. pendent upon these contributions and everyone connected with the industry is urged to plav a little part in building Forest Products Day into what could be the main event o{ the annual California State Fair. OIIicers of the non-profit organizgtion are: C. T, Gray, American Forest Products, acting president; LeRoy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, vice-president; and C. D.

LeNfaster, publisher emeritus of Western Building Review, secretary-treasurer. Direc. tors include C. Russell Johnson, president of Union Lumber Co., and Bob Nikkel, head of Nikkel Lumber Company of Sacramento.

The world's largest Douglas fir tree, which measured 15.6 feet in diameter at ground level, was blown over in the October 12 hurricane last year. It was about 1000 years old, grew in Oregon's Clatsop county on Crown Zellerbach Corporation lands. It was in a small dedicated park set aside by the company.

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