T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

Cafifornia Lumber Merchant Dec. 15,1927 ! As reported in The

S. P. Johns, Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., was elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, at the 11th annual Congress held in Seattle.

A joint meeting of the San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club and the Pasadena Lumbermen's Club r,vas held at the Tavern, San Gabriel, on November 28. Wm. H. Sievert, president of the San Gabriel Club presided, and Albert R' Israel of the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau, Longvieu', Wash., was the speaker.

An attractive feature of the Builders' Exposition of Southern California, sponsored by the Builders' Exchange, was the exhibit of Northu'est forest products which rvas prepared by the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau and loaned to the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. The exhibit rvas placed on display in the Exposition through the cooperation of three Los Angeles lunrber firmsHammond Lumber Company, Consolidatecl f-umbet Co. and E. K. \\/ood Lumber Co.

On Saturday, November 26, the Sacramento Vallel' Lumbermen's Club held their monthly meeting at the Hctel Senator, Sacramento. Jo Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., presided. Jim Farley, Paciflc Lumber Co., San Francisco, shorved a motion picture of Pacific's mill and logging operations at Scotia.

n'as cut at a West Coast mill as the last o{ three "big sticks" for a special government order. It was taken from a log more than four feet in diameter at the small end n'lrich scaled 9,925 board feet. These timbers were to be used as anchoring "spuds" on goYernment dredges in the l'ananra Canal Zone.

Final arrangements a Lumbermen's Club at the Boyes Springs were completed for the organizing of in Sonoma County at a meeting held elected president, Len and Herb Cochrane,

Hotel. Mead Clark, Santa Rosa, lvas Gilbert, Healdsburg, vice president, Petaluma, secretary-treasurer.

Albion Lumber Co., San Francisco, presented to the children of San Francisco what was presumed to be the largest Redwood Christmas tree ever brought into San Francisco. The tree was cut near Albion, Mendocino county, and was 125 feet tall, 30 inches in diameter, and had a limb spread of 30 to 35 feet. The tree was brought down on the Steamer Pasadena and required a fleet of trucks to transport it from the docks to Twin Peaks rvhere it r,vas set up' The tree rveighed eight tons.

This issue carried an illustrated article on building of the Hammond Lumber Company

Percy I. Merithew, Phoenix, Ariz., representatlve the nerv office at Pasadena. for E. to the

A Douglas fir timber, 80 feet long and K. Wood Lumber Co., 34 inches squarc, company's Los Angeles in Arizona, rvas transferred office.

Knotty Pine lt ls

George C. Faulkner, Jr., Sierra Pine, Inc., San Francisco, sent us a tearsheet from "The Reserve Marine" rvhich carries an interesting article in the Korea Section titled "Knotty Pine It Is" which reads as follorvs : '

"War or no war, Chief Hospital Corpsman Eugene P. Lentz of Kenosha, Wis., decided his front line aid station was going to have knotty pine furniture.

"The fact that there was no such pine available didn't faze him. In his spare time, using 'ivood from ammunition cases, he l>uilt benches, chairs, cabinets, and an operating table for the Navy medical personnel attached to the First Battation. Fifth Marines.

"Then he u'ent over the n'orks u'ith a blon'torcl.r. scol'ching the rvood here and there until he rvas pleased.

"'We're the only front line aid station with knotty pine equipment,' he insists.

"Visitors are impressed."

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Loggers came in for a vigorous pat on the back, too, for logger firt:s were among the lowest on record. Hagenstein said sportsmen had responded to appeals for care with fire in a most encouraging manner.

There were long periods during the summerivhen strong and persistent east rvinds kept the humidities below the danger point and rvl-ren moisture content of the forest fuel \,vas near zero. This is the time foresters dread. Any careless act can cause a conflagration and manls mightiest efforts are puny once a fire gets started'

Foresters look back on 1951 rvhen forest fires took a heavy toll, like the Forks fire on the Olympic National Forest in \\rashington in late Septembeln'l.rich burned 500,000'000 feet of prime timber, and breathe easier now that fall rains have come. Keep \\rashington Green used huge painted signs on highways throughout their state with "IJse Your Ashtray" warnings to tourists and motorists.

Keep Oregon Green put on a "Radio Alert Week" rvith the state's 45 commercial stations putting the entire public on the alert in early June. Both states' newspapers have done a rvonderful education job as rvell.

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