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By Alvin C. I(LOT[ District Manager American Forest Products fndustries, fnc., San Francisco, California

High in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, a father and son are fighting a silent battle for economic survival. The enemy? Bark beetles !

Between the 6,000 and 9,000-foot level, R. J. Eckert and son David, managing the highest-elevation Western Pine Tree Farm in the state, are fighting their own flying saucers without aid from the Air Force or the United Nations.

Ips oregoni is the technical name for the pine bark beetle at work on the Eckert Tree Farm. Largely an invisible enemy, it advances with the wind during critical summer months. The only adequate defense seems to be containment, and salvage of the fallen victims.

The heavy infestation of Ips oregoni started in down logs and slash left in the area before Eckert obtained ownership of the Tree Farm. It is unusual for the "Oregon pine engraver," as it is commonly called, to attack young pine trees. It usually hits only the tops of older trees.

Eckert has both types of damage prevalent in his Jeffrey pine stand.

The Eckerts make frequent inspections of the entire 4,000 acre Tree Farm searching for the vanquished. Beetlekilled trees fit for lumber go to a local sawmill. Others are felled, stripped of bark, sprayed with oil to kill the beetles. Some trees are simply felled and buried by bulldozer to prevent the spread of the beetles. Most of this is profitless work, but necessary to prevent loss. Suitable markets for badly damaged logs are not presently available.

It takes high purpose and dedication to produce the timber growth per acre that will enable a tree farmer to pay taxes, buy equipment, establish adequate fire protection, plant seedlings when necessary, hold down the destruction of his trees by insects and forest diseases and still have enougtr profit left over for the owner's living.

Eckert is such a dedicated man. Every Californian has a stake in his fight. His victory is a victory for the €conomy of the state.

Eckert has company. California has 2i0 Tree Farm units with a total of over two million privately owned acres certified under the forest industries' Tree Farm program as being adequately managed for the continuous production of forest crops. These tree farmers are true conservationists . the hard-working kind.

Western Pine Assn. to Meet '57 Heod-on

(Continued from Page 24) product, panel sheathing, made its appearance during the year as a product of the region. Called "Sheet-Board," the panels are made. of common-grade boards faced on both sides by kraft paper overlays. One mill is manufacturing the product and three others have expressed interest in getting started. Developed at the Western Pine research laboratory in Portland, the lumber sheathing panels are planned to be ,capable of competing with any sheathing material.

The industry's promotion program, functioning through the Association, was stepped up during the year with inclusion of color-advertising to supplement regular advertising in consumer and trade publications.

An array of new Western Pine publications making appearance during 1956, and designed to stimulate interest in lumber from the region, included such titles as "Fine Finishes For Family Rooms," "Fine Finishes For Kitchens," "Friendly Home Ideas," t'Fence Folio," "Precision Finger-Jointed Stock," and a "broadside" idea folder put out in connection with the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association qtandardized display plan.

More than a half-million of these and other publications, most of them in color, were sent out during 1956 on request. Coming up sodn is a full-scale species book featur-' ing Engelmann Spruce. It is the seventh in a series of illustrated \Mestern Pine species books presenting individual woods, their properties, uses and grades.

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Timber Engineering Co. of Cqlif. Elects New Officers; Horner Retires

Timber Engineering Co. of California, fnc., through its board of directors, announces the election of new officers and the retirement of Arthur C. Horner, who has been president for several years. Horner will continue his association with the company as consulting engineer. Newly elected ofificers are Axel V. Pedersen, president; Wm. Curwin 'Wallace, vice-president and treasurer, and Winchell D. Epperson, secretary.

Pedersen, well-known Los Angeles civil engineer, has been with the firm as its Southern California representative for the past six years. Wallace, who becomes general manager, has been with the firm for the past nine years. Epper-

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son, the new secretary, was appointed sales manager. He has been rvith the company for five years in sales and sales promotion. Horner, the retiring president, is widely known for his work with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Portland Cement Association and Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference.

Oregon Sowmill Moving to Arizono

Willcox, Ariz.-Ira Shirley, Pineville, Oregon, sawmill operator, announced early in November that he would move his mill from Oregon to Willcox within the first two weeks of last month. He said he has a contract to cut timber in the Chiricahau Mountains and expected to employ about 20 men.

It's Just like 'Scotlqnd Yqrd'

(Continued from Page 18) change ambitiously published a Douglas fir rule book, it had grown to eight pages of type.

Today, as'lumber assumes far greater usage as an all-purpose construction material and an engineering material, West Coast grading rules have become as expansive and definitive as our very complex society which lumber serves so admirably.

For instance, improved technology in gluing of lumber has created of this oldest building material an engineering material of incomparable quality and flexibility and almost limitless possibilities. Man-made timbers, glued from selected smaller boards and dimension lumber, are made into arches, trusses and beams which will span a 210 foot area without need of posts. Through years of tests at the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Douglas fir, west coast hemlock and other west coast species have been assigned definite stress values, so dimension and timber today can be sold with specifically designated stress values from 120Of stress and up.

When Swan Alverdson wrote the first grading rules back in 1754 at Stockholm, he needed only four grades to define Scandinavian pine: best, good, common, and culls. In America, during the last century, lumber grading was left pretty much to the whim of individual markets and most mills sold "mill run" and let the buyer do his own grading and culling

Some grade rules were in use on the Kennebec river, in Maine as early as 1816, although they were local grades. By 1833 the state of Maine passed the first law establishing