Producf ooo

\7e now carry the following Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber in stock at Alameda and Long Beach for imned.iate sbipment to dealers: Douglos Fir 545 Al5 2x4,2x6,2x8,2xI0, 3x4,3x6,4x4qnd4x6.

Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressure treated without delay.

\$(/e offer prompr cusrom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by truck or treated in transit in carload quantities. Consult us for additional information,

FHA Advqnces Cyrus B. Sweef fo Assistqnr Tirle I Commissioner

Washington, D. C.-Federal Housing Commissioner Norman P. Mason announced the appointment of Cyrus B. Sweet, director of FHA's Title I home improvement loan program, to the post of assistant commissioner for Title I, following a two-day session of a lenders advisory committee to give FHA officials counsel and guidance on experience in operation of the government's insured loan program in the home repair and modernization field.

Mr. Sweet, who conducted the meetings, came to FHA in Jull1954 after some 30 years' association with the retail lumber business. The Californian is a former president of National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.'

Commissioner Mason said that the "organizational change involved in Mr. Sweet's advancement will bring more direct leadership to the Title I program at a time of growing interest in home repair and modernization.

"Business leaders interested in better housing are keenly aware of the need to maintain and rehabilitate our existing homes," the Commissioner said.

Folder on lodgepole Pine

One of the Associated Woods of the Western Pine Region-Lodgepole Pine-is the subject of the Western Pine Association's newest consumer publication, an eightpage folder in full color. Stressing the beauty of Lodgepole Pine paneling, the folder is of envelope enclosure size and was designed for use in mailings with invoices and other correspondence by retailers. The piece can also be used as a handout in retail yard showrooms.

Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumbdr is impreg. nated with preservative salts in accordance with Fed. Spec TT-$[-57Lc. lt is approved by FHA, Uniform Building Code - P.C.B.O.C., State Architect for mud. sills in School Construction, and U. S. Governmenr Specifications.

Identified as publication No. 3D among the continuing program of producing new promotional literature by the association, single copies of the folder may be obtained free of charge. In quantities of two or more they are available for 2c each, and may be obtained by writing the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

Hqrt Joins Pqcific Wood Products

Chandler Hart, formerly vice-president of Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been named to the sales and\executive staff of Pacific Wood Products Co., international importing and exporting firm with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Europe. According to Jack and Norman Davidson, owners of Pacific Wood Products, Hart will headquarter in Los Angeles but will be in close contact with the various procurement offices of the company around the world.

Pacific Wood Products maintains general offices in Statler Center, Los Angeles, and specializes in the sale of foreign and domestic plywoods for distributors of lumber and building materials throughout the U. S. and Canada.

PRE(ISION TRIMMED FIR STUDS . (ERTIGRADE GDAR SHINGTES

On August 20, I9lO, fiery hell exploded over the Bitter Roots and through the canyons of the Coeur d'Alenes. It was the climax day of the Northwest's 'ivorst forest fire season in which 85 lives were taken and 3.000.000 acres o{ forests were burned.

The 24 hours of disaster ran on the pattern of every famous forest conflagration. Dry spring, hot dry summer, many smokes, increasing danger, then explosion-the devil's own day in the timber.

The "Yacolt Burn" climaxed the fires of 1902 in the Douglas fir. It was the force that first drove private timber owners into organizing for protection. The fires of 1910 fortified the lines of these new organizations and stimulated the growth of state forestry in the Pacific Nortl-rwest.

The "Keep Green" and tree farm programs grew out of the Tillamook and other great fires of the 192U1940 period.

A Man Remembers

Colonel Bill Greeley was the field general of the fight against fire that was made by ten thousand men r,vith shovels, hoes and axes in 1910. This he does not forget when he tracks around today through the fresh green growth of West Coast tree farms or the pine tree farms of Idaho. The shapes of old arise above tl-re green, in gray smoke from black snags.

This is the meaning of an inspired work of illustrative art by Fred Ludekens, which pictures the Bill Greeley of today in the thick of a tree-farm timber crop, looking mighty, mighty pleased upon it.

.Probably you have seen the picture, as it was the feature of a recent Weyerhaeuser Timber Company advertisement running in national magazines.

William B. Greeley was one of the original "Pinchot Crusaders." After his fine work as U. S. district forester in Montana and ldaho, he was made assistant chief forester. Through World War I, Greeley commanded 20,000 forestry troops in France. As U.S.F.S. chief, Iy2O-1928, he labored with Oregon's great Senator Charles E. McNary on legislation that is now the life blood of cooperation between industrial forestry and the federal and state agencies. The Greeley career has been in industrial forestry since 1928. The Spokane Meeting. .

When the fall rains came in 1910, U. S. District Forester Greeley had just begun to fight. So had George S. Long, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. They stood shoulder to shoulder in discussions at the 1910 Spokane meeting of the infant Western Forestry and Conservation Association to meet the challenge of the forest fire problem.

The ideas that were seeded at Spokane in 1910 have grown into the 34,000,000 acres of tree farms and other program of the American Forest Products fndustries. And so today Bill Greeley can wear a big, broad smile as he stands on a tree farm hill and remembers the smokes of many fires.