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California National Forests Return John B. Veach Named Munitions Over $3rA Million to Forest Counties Board Consultant

San Francisco, October 9-The National Forests of California returned over 3r/4 million dollars to forest counties for roads and schools for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1952.

fn announcing this sum Regional Forester Clare Hendee points out that this revenue to the counties, in lieu of taxes on National Forest lands, is provided for by Federal Law. The Act provides that 25/o of the gross receipts from National Forest lands shall be returned to the state in which the forests are situated. The state then distributes these monies to the counties on the basis of the proportionate area of the county within the boundaries of a National Forest. An added IO/o of. forest revenues is made available to the Forest Service for roads and trail work in the National Forests. By this means the counties benefit by what amounts to a 35 ,% equity in National forest lands within the county.

National forest revenues reached a new high in fiscal year 1952, exceeding 1951 over 40/o. This was due largely to expansion of timber sales particularly in the northern timbered counties of the state. Direct payments to the counties in some of these northern forests will average as much as 60 cents per acre for all the National forest land in the county.

Managing Antioch Lumber Company

The new manag'er of the Antioch Lumber Company, Antioch, Calif., is Henry (Hank) Beede who is the grandson of the founder Henry Beede. The firm was established in 1864, is located on the same property. and has always been managed by the family. Ralph Beede. son of the founder and father of Hank, was active in his day. The firm has a museum in which many of the old documents, bills and plans which they used in the early days, can be viewed. These include plans for large homes with no bathrooms, estimated to cost about $250.00 per room. Needless to say thev have only a historic value today.

C. H. Land of the Monarch land recently returned from a family. He spent much time Scandinavian countries.

Washington, D.C., Oct. l-John B. Veach, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and one of the country's leading lumbermen, today was, named forest products consultant to the Munitions Board.

Mr. Veach, 52, who is also president of the Hardwood Corporation of America rvith headquarters in Asheville, N. C., will represent the lumber industry in the development of procurement and mobilization policies by the military establishment.

The NLMA president will be on Z4-hour call for advice and will meet with Munitions Board officials in Washington as often as the need arises. He succeeds the late Harry T. Kendall, another industry leader and an officer of NLMA until his death last May.

Mr. Veach's appointment to the Munitions Board tops several other posts he currently holds in the nation's defense program.

His other duties include chairman of the Hardwood Industry Defense Committee, a private organization set up to promote the use of hardwoods in the defense program; chairman of the Appalachian Hardwood Industry Advisory Committee to the Office of Price Stabilization; and a member of the Lumber Industry Advisory Committee of the National Security Resources Board.

Mr. Veach has also served as a consultant on hardwood lumber procurement to the Army Engineers. He is a director of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, a trustee of the American Forest Products fndustries, Inc., and a past president of the Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers. Inc.

During World War II, he served as deputy lumber coordinator in charge of hardwood lumber procurement for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury Department and Lend-Lease activities. A native of Oil City, Pa., Mr. Veach is married and an alumnus of Yale University where he was editor of the Yale Daily News.

Nels Sanford of the Sanford, Harris Lumber Pittsburgh, Penna., spent some time visiting the Pacific Coast. While in the vicinity of the he spent much of his time with Stuart Ingram wood, Ingram Company of Oakland.

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