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SCTSA Heqrs Forestry Professor At Seoson's Firsf Meeting

The Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association met September 8 at B:20 p.m. after a wonderful prime rib dinner at Rodger Young auditorium. President Herb Geisenheyner was chairman of the meeting.

Secretary-Treasurer Bob Inglis read letters from Ray Rietz, Madison, Wisconsin, and Leif Espenas, Corvallis, Oregon, telling about seasoning courses to begin soon. The Madison Forest Products Laboratory probably will have a two-week course sometime in the spring of 1956. Another one-week course is being held in Florida and one rn'ill be held in Amherst, Massachusetts also. The Oregon Forest Products Laboratory probably will have a course during the month of December.

President Herb introduced Harvey Smith, wood technologist of the California Range and Experiment Station, Berkeley, who, in turn, introduced Dr. Robert A. Cockrell, School of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cockrell's subject was "Relationship of Wood Structures to Seasoning."

After a short question-and-answer period, the meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m. Those present were:

Rex Woll, Woll Dry Kiln

Howqrd Pitts, Wqll Dry Kiln

Fronk Petk, Rossmon Mill & Lbr.

Richqrd W. Gsrdner, Coort Kiln

J. L. lrloody, Conroliddted Lbr. Co.

A.lhur Fur<ron. Consolidoted Lbr. Co.

H. L. Olguin, llcCoy'r Dry Kiln

Jo<k leoch, McCoy's Dry Kiln

[. G. Wilford. T.opicol e Western Will Tweddle, Contolidcfed lbr. Co.

L. lerry, Frederick Couch Co.

Eqrl Simon, Hmmond Lbr, Co.

Rur: Swiff, Tropicol & Western Fronk Keuski. Associoted lilldg. Co.

J. H. Von Potten, Vn Potten Dry Kiln

P. J, skill, Sierro Redwood Co.

Arfhur Koehler, Conrulfml

J. W. Mcleod, Mohogny lmporting Co.

Poul D. Cherniss, Atlqt Lbr. Co. Hor.y Robin3on, PotterBlinn Lbr. Co. Hcrvey W. Smith, Cal. Fot. Exp. Slo.

Hqrold R. Cole, Bohnhoft Lbr. Co.

P@l P6be.fhy, Pgnberthy Lbr. Co. Robert A. Cockrell, School of Fore.lry, Hclond Wolkerr. Penbedhy Lb.. Co, Univ. of Colif.

Wm. !, WitlimJ, Pqrfex €o. Herb Geisenheyner, Coqrt Kiln Co.

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€ounties Win Fqir Forestly Prizes

A $25 award was given Shasta county for the best educational display, showing the various grades of lumber of one species and following the Western Pine Association and Redwood Association standards in judging of forestry and lumber, at the California State Fair last month in Sacramento. Humboldt county, second place winner, received $20; third place winner, Trinity county, was given a $15 prize.

Humboldt county took first place and $50 for any product manufactured from mill or logging operation wastes in judging of manufactured forest by-products. Second place winner, Shasta county, was awarded $50.

Del Norte county won first place and $50 in judging of forestry for the best display of varieties of trees of economic importance, including Christmas trees. Second place Trinity county received $40 and third place Plumas was awarded $30.

Ooklond Hoo-Hoo Plqn Footbqll Nighr

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39, with new President Joe Pepetone presiding, will hold its annual "Football Night" the evening of October 17 at Fishermen's Pier in Oakland. Jerrv Mashek of Hill & Morton, Inc., is chairman for the evening and has been busily rounding up football brawn for the guest speaker position.

Cocktails prior to dinner will be sponsored by MacBeath Hardwood Company, Berkeley, and Sun Valley Lumber Company, I-afayette. After dinner, Pepetone advises, members are entirely on their own without penalties from the referee.

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If lumber could talk, I feel that it would say something like this: f came from a tree that stood majestic on a hillside. I stood sentinel there when the forests of this great land were untouched by the hand of the woodsman.

I reared my top branches into the glory.of the sunlight by day; and drank deep into the dews of evening. Generations passed, while still I grew; and further generations have come and gone since f became one of the big trees of the forest.

I seemed to be a thing apart, a thing eternal, so slow and watchful seemed the hand of Providence that fashioned me.

The flowers of many springtimes came, and bloomed, and died, and were no more; yet I was changeless. The grasses on the hillside came forth through countless springs, grew, withered, died, and disappeared.

Yet f remained.

The wintry blasts blew futile against my towering strength; the gentle summer breezes fanned my lazy boughs; and autumn colors through endless Indian summers bedecked the woods around me.

And still I stood-unchanged and unimpressed.

Then one day men came. They brought axe and saw. And I fell, crashing my full length upon the ground where my shadow had fallen for ages. The tragedy of my dismemberment and disruption followed.

Today, f, who stood upon the hiltside while generations came and disappeared and whose children and their children's children followed that selfsame path, am onlyLUMBER.

My destiny is to go out into the world piecemeal, that men may fashion me into places of shelter. That is my fate. But to those men who tore me from my place in the sun and flung me prostrate with their devices; who ruthlessly tore down the mighty bulk that the winds of God had beat against for centuries, I would say these things:

"Honor me for what I have been, and for what I can be. Send me not lightly or thoughtlessly forth into the world without a chosen and worthy mission. God never built me through all those years and preserved me through all those countless storms without an AIM-A PLAN.

"Surely He had great work for me to do. Therefore you, who have humbled me, FIND ME THAT MISSION.

"See to it that the sons and daughters of men know well of the mighty usefulness that God Himself built into my thews and sinews. Send me forth, not a vagrant or a maverick, but carve for me the fitting destiny that my strength and worth deserve.

"Say to the sons and daughters of men that the Mighty Power that reared me through the ages has tempered me to do the work of ages. Choose work best fitted to my worth, that I may well be trusted to shelter and protect mankind and its possessions as eternally as when I stood upon yonder hillside.

"That is my plea. Respect me ! Direct me ! Introduce me