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FPRS.-No. Cslif. Section-Plqns October Meet

Members of the Forest Products Research Society will discuss utilization of young timber at the meeting oi tt-t. Northern California Section at Fort Bragg on Oc6ber 20. The meeting, part of National Forest Pr6Eucts Week, will explore -topics important in any contemplated harvest of young timber.

Basic differences in the u'ood from young and old trees will be_discuss^ed by Drs. Diana Smith-and "Robert youngs of the United States Forest Products Laboratory, Madisoir, Wisconsin, in their paper, "Comparative Food and Fiber Properties of Young and Otd Timber." In "A Forester Looks at Young Growth," Robert Grundman, Union Lumber Company forester, will tell the members of his exDerience with s-e-cond glowth timber. William Smith, J. H. Baxter Co., Willits, California, will discuss "The -potential of Young Growth for Round Wood Utilization." Dr. llerbert McKean, Director of Research, Potlatch Forests. Inc.. Lewiston, Idaho, will stress small log utilization in ,.Nlodl ern Trends in Product Development.t a revolutionary new machine process that front, back and edge primes cedar siding wath famous Cabot's Ranch House Hues. Saves costly on-site finishing because you deliver pre-stained siding direct to the jobready for immediate application. rn rhe Los Anqetes ggLANA lS PRE-SELLING yOUR CUSTOMERS! area, call fa rf"ii"l. ,Ed..Hearne, Solana's Los Angeles-area repren e J*".J]-iil i, 19119tive, is personallv talking. to architects, In San Dieqo & tm- area in a big.sales-development program de. pe r i a r, C I u n'' " 1, il?liE rlgi:ifl ,i::, ?"..T, iliJii;.f f phone Solana Cedar & ''","' ivtilling co., BElmont onlY'

Luncheon speaker H. Pierson Plummer, Vice presidentProduction, Union Lumber Company, will talk on ,.California Redtvood-a Study in Unique- problems in production and Merchandising." T'he Research Society Members will tour Union Lumber's sawmill, log gang, planer mill, prefinished paneling line and research-faciliiies here.

For further information contact William A. Dost. Cali- fornia Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento Streei, San Francisco 11, California.

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One Portland, Oregon home builder is building all wood joist floors in his new model homes. He switched from concrete slab floors when women complained they got back and leg pains from walking on concrete all day.

Andy Donovan, Los Angeles representative of the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, reports that a mammoth ponderosa pine, dubbed by Lassen County residents as Peter Lassen's Tree, has been relieved of its vigilance over its namesake's grave. In its place are two monuments erected by the Lassen

Lodge No. 149 of Masons in honor of the man whom that county was named more than l@ years ago.

The Masons removed the ancient pine for the reason that it had been declared a dangerous hazard to those visiting the grave nlonument.

IJpon measuring the pine, it was found to be 16{ feet long with the butt of tree being 27.3 feet in circumference. Lassen's Ponderrosa is believed by the University of Arizona to be the largest and oldest pine of its specie in America.

The retirement of Russell M. Held, Vice President and General Sales Manager of Tamms Industries Company, has been announced. A veteran of the paint industry for over 40 years, Held plans to move with his family to Arizona later this month.

There have been several changes made in the personnel of International Paper Company's Long-Bell Division. Claude Kinchen has been appointed supervisor of product development and cost analysis for millwork.

Walter Schlottach has been named manager of Long-Bell's wholesale distribution warehouse at Amarillo, Texas. Walter Stephan, Jr., becomes manager of the wholesale distribution warehouse at Enid, Oklahoma. James Hall is now acting manager of the wholesale distribution warehouse at Fort Smith. Arkansas.

Oakland wholesaleman Earle Bender called on mill connections in Humboldt County and southern Oregon during late September.

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