Pacific Losging Congress

At last month's meeting of the Pacific I.ogging Congress held in San Francisco, Clyde Gorman of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Longview, Washington was elected president. He succeeded Waldron Hyatt of Hammond Lumber Company. Other officers elected were: Roy Gould, Diamond Lumber Company, Glenwood, Oregon, vice president; Robert F. Dwyer, Dwyer Lumber Company, Portland, treasurer, and Corwin A. Wolley of Portland, reelected secretary.

Among the thirty-five men elected as directors lvere four from California: W. S. Wickstrom. Byles-Jamison Lumber Company, Fresno; Roy \Magner, Masonite Company, Ukiah; \Ar. B. Berry. California Forestering, Placerville; and llerbert McMahon, Ralph L. Smith Lumbet Company, Anderson.

Among those who spoke at the opening session rvas Arch Whisnant, veteran former secretary of the Congress and one who attended the first Logging Congress in 1915. He could recall the days when logging problems revolved around the donkey engine, how to build better railroad trestlep, and how to improve the living conditions of the men.in the woods.

WilliamD. Hagenstein, chief forester for the Industrial Forestry Association in Portland said that one of the