Where ls Lumber Used Overseas?

Lieut. Earl M. McGowin, USNB, who recently returned lrom Europe, specking belore the Logging Congress in lcnrucry, scid in pcrrt: "Before the militcrry ccn move in, the engineers need c lot ol lumber for cll kinds of jobs, including rebuilding oI bridges. Then comes the Qucrtermcster Corps which needs lumber to protect stores.

The Trcursportqtion Corps needs lumber for roc&. The Signcl Corps hcrs to rebuild mcmy units crnd erect new lacilities. Vcst qucartities ,oI ties are needed. And lcrge qucrntities crre used lor crcrting. The mediccrl units require considercrble lumber. The common soldiers need lumber. Wood is most welcome csrd treasured everywhere on crll lronts."

A GOOD SIGN For any Lumber Dealer

What new service can the lumber dealer ofier his customers? The answer ie, (V/OODTOX Treated Lumber." fn doing this the dealer sells his customers lumber defnitely improved in service increages his reputation for progres. siveness, and creates a new source of profit.

The sale of VOODTOX treated lumber is practical for any lumber dealer. No elaborate or cootly treating equipment is needed. Deep impregnation and lasting protection is obtained by simple dip method. WOODTOX brings the advantages of properly treated lumber within the reach of every lumber dealer, regardless of size.

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Amy, Ncvy, Mcririhe Comnisgion cnd Public Housing Authority specilicqtior cclliag lor chlori4cted pheaol wood presencliver, Eoistuf€ repellents cnd colorbg cre lully met by our WOODTOX, TIIIIBERTOX cnd WOODFIX Oil Solutioag.

Foregt Fire Placardg Off eted For Campaign3

Washington, D. C.-Four two-color window cards, stressing in cartoon style the importance of forest fire prevention, have been designed by the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and may be obtained in quantity, without cost, for distribution by forest industries, state and school agencies or other organizations undertaking fire prevention campaigns.

Each design features the forest character "Woody," who has a brief, striking message stressing personal responsibility in prevention of forest fires. Space is provided for the imprint of the organization sponsoring distribution of these placards. Imprinting may be done locally, or by the American Forest Products Industries for a nominal charge, but the placards theniselves are provided free. They are printed in black and red and measure 8 by 12 inches.

Full information may be obtained by writing to American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Appoint New Resecrch Director

To push forward their extensive program of research, The Paraffine Companies, Inc., announced the appointment of Dr. A. M. Erskine as director of research and development for both the parent organization and associate, Plant Rubber & Asbestos Works, according to R. H. Shainwald, executive vice president.

Dr. Erskine has been associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., for the past sixteen years, after years of teaching at Hamilton College and Cornell lJniversity, from which he received both B. Chem. and Ph.D. degrees.

Stcnton Hcrs House Orgcrn

"Stantonite" is the name of a monthly house organ published by and for the employees of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles. It is well edited and should be very popular.

Mary E. Blocher is the editor. Reporters for the yard are: Merle Hindman, Lloyd Webb, Bill Larsen, F. E. McNally, Prince Smith, Nate Miller. For the office: Corrine Shepardson, Marge Knipper, Anne Higbee for National Toinery.

The Legend of the Dogwood (Author Unkown)

At the time of the Crucifixion the dogwood attained the size of the oak and other forest trees. So strong and firm was the wood of it that it was chosen for the timber for the Cross. To be thus used for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the tree, and Jesus smiled upon it, sensed this, and, in His gentle pity for sorrow' said to it:

"Because of your regret and pity for my suffering, I make you this promise: Never again shall the dogwood tree grow big enough .to be used for a cross. Henceforth it shaU be slender and bent and twisted, and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross-two long petals and two short petals-and in the center of the outer edge of each petal there will be nail prints,.brown with rust and stained with blood. And in the center of the flower there shall be an image of the crown of thorns and all who see it will remember that it was upon a dogwood tree that I was crucified, and this tree shall not be mutilitated or destroyed, but cherished as a reminder of my death upon the cross."

Lumber For Behcrbilitation Use Oversecrs

The WPB reports that lumber authorized for rehabilitation use overseas ancl for construction in this country of prefabricated houses for export, amounts to less than l/o of the anticipated 1945 lumber production. The amounts authorized total about 280 million board feet.

Prelcrbricated Structures

The OPA announces a new price regulation for prefabricated non-dwelling structures that provides each of four classes of sellers with a specific formula for pricing these products commonly used on the farm (MPR 583, effective March 28).

Elected President

Ray C. Smith, general manag'er, Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Quincy, Calif. has been elected president of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce.

Word got around about this Big One' The crui*rs and fern hoppers had seen it' Their tales of it r,vere tall but, they insisted with arms 'ivide outstretched, entirely in keeping with their claims for THIS tree' Thii was IT. Maybe it I'r'ould top all records for trees takeu out by Weyerhaeuser.

The arguments grerv as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Compa.tyts railroad construction crew from the Longview Branch swung the ribbons of steel along the rugged slopes in Southwestern Washington, ever nearer to the Big One.

Occasionally an inquisitive and doubting soul would sneak arvay to have a look at the Big One for himself. He'd plow through the tangle of devil clubs and vine maple and head up into the rough hills of the -Green River iountry. He'd clamber over the big rotting windfall hulks of former {orest giantJlong since thrown to the ground. with i double headlock put on by age and winchulks with a soft, foot-deep carpet of greenyellow moss along their backs. But at last he would stand at the great round foot o{ the Big One. It was indeed a grand-daddy. Six men could hardly touch finger tips around it. There it was, 300 tons of tree, towering away beyond sight into that unbroken green canopy far above. Hardly a taDer to it. Straieht and clean as an arrow. R6und as a barreil No limbs until way, r'vay up. Ah, this one had lumber in it. Tens of thousands of board feet, more lumber than any tree ever logged by Weyerhaeuser'

Grand-daddy tree, yes. And, like granddaddies everywhere, it was thinning out on top, on the downhill side of the peak of vigor, maturity long since reached. The body was beginning to waste away slowly inside. Nature had already put in her claim to return the Big One to the dust. Forests live on, but individual trees die. The fate of the Big One would be kindly. The loggers were on their way, would soon be here, would take this fine tree in harvest along with its fellows on this portion of the hillside. and rvould send the lumber out to do useful tasks for America.

And then, one day in the late summer of 1944, a veteran head faller, Russell Drake, and his second faller partner, Hector \Mood, brought the harvest to the Big One. "Timber!" The old familiar cry rang through the woods. The fallers leaped down and away to safety. In a brown and green shower of branches, small limbs, needles, dead wood and dirt, the Big One swept down to its bed with one last mighty earthshaking roar. Then all was quiet. The Big One had come down in excellent shape. When big Harlan Clark had bucked eleven cuts through that marvelous bole, Roy Wooldridge, the scaler, came along and tallied up the Big One this way: lor the merchsntcble logs, with c totcl length better pcrt ol tr ol 196 leet, plus