WEST ORIGOIT IUMBER CO.

Portland, Oregron

Manufacturers of OId Growth Douglas Fir Rail and Cargo Shippers

Named Mi*rest Repretentative for Douglas Fir Plywood Associatlon

Donald M. Crooks, for several years sales and production executive of western prefabrication firms, has been named midwest representative for Douglas Fir Plywood Associatoin with Chicago offices.

He ' succeeds David S. Betcone, now eastern representative for the fir plywoo d industry at Washington, D.C. A thiry' Association field man, Joseph Weston, is located at Los Angeles, Calif.

Mr. Crooks has been associated with manufacture and marketing of pre-cut and prefabricated structures almost continuously since 1912. Until recently he was in ctrarge of engineering for Hayward Lumbbr & Investment Co. of Los Angeles and helped develop their present house manufacturing plant. He held a similar position. with

Gorman Lumber Sales eo. of Oakland,

Calif.

He has conducted architectural offices in Portland, Ore., and Oakland with much of his work in the residential field. His designs include several plywood structures apart front homes or buildings.

At Chicago he rvill serve as a consultant on applications of plywood in the indlstrial and prefabrication fields principally.

Reprints Old Newspaper Article

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin in its edition of March 2, 1944, repinted on,the first page an article from the Sunday magazine section of the Los Angeles Examiner of April 11, 1926, in which Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitch.ell, one of America's first air-minded soldiers, told how the Japanese would attack Hawaii and the Philippines.

The article stated that the dusty 1926 newspaper was discovered by Fred Roth, and was being used as a shelf cover in one of his company's store rooms. Fred is a former San Francisco lumberman, and is now in the lunrber business in Honolulu.

Commissioned Second Lieutenant

Myron H. Koll, son of Harvey W. Koll, H. W. Koll Mill & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has graduated from the Officers' Candidatd School of Engineering at Fort Belvoir, Va., where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. He is now stationed at Camp San l-riis Obispo.