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spending two weeks in Los Angeles in the interests of the by-products department of the company.

The Shelvin Pine Sales Company is now arranging for a 100-car train shi,pmeent of Shelvin Pine from their Bend, Oregon plants to leave Bieber, California over The Western Pacific Railroad Company route.

With a net score of 75, Bill Chantland was the winner of the John Olson Cup at the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company golf tournament held at the Westwood Country Club, Los Angeles.

John A. McEvoy, sales manager of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills box department, travelled by air from Seattle to Los Angeles on a recent business trip.

The Agricultural News, only agricultural newspaper in California, made its September 30 issue a special Redwood number. A feature of the issue was a special article by Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer, manager of the Redwood Farm Structures Bureau, California Redwood Association.

A lot of public attention was drawn to the display 6f ,plywood and articles made from plywood bv C. W. Buckner, Harbor Plywood Corp. representative, in one of the large windows of the Building Material and Machinery Exhibit Building, San Francisco. A feature of the exhibit was the big Douglas fir panel shown by Davis Hardwood Company.

The dry kilns of Schafer Bros. Lumber and Shingle Company, Washington, were destroyed by fire at a loss of approximately $20,000. A quantity of lumber was also destroyed. All of the destroyed dry kiln equipment has been replaced from the stock of the Moore Dry Kiln Company factory, Oregon.

L, P. Keith, West Coast Lumbermen's Association field engineer, has left the employ of the Association to become Eastern sales promotion representative of the Puget Sound Associated Mills, Seattle.

An insulating board mill at Hilo, Hawaii is presently being constructed by the Hawaiian Can Products, Ltd. The plant will manufacture rigid fiber board from bagasse, the tough fibers of sugar cane.

Introducing a new era in the manufacture of asphalt shingles in the West, The Pioneer Paper Company has announced that Setab Shingles are now ready for the market.

The 26th semi-annual meeting of the board of directors of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen will be held at Portland, Oregon.

Back at work is Harry Officer, Northwest representative of the Santa Fe Lumber Company. He underwent an emergency appendicitis operation last month.

A contract has been awarded for the construction of a lumber plant and planing mill for the Willard Lumber Company, Fresno. The principals of the firm are M. W. and W. W. Terrill and E. E. Schlotthauer.

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