Changes in,[:fffrf""ell Lumber

Earl H. Houston, sales representative in the St. Louis office of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, has been transferred to Longvie.w, 'Wash., and will take charge of the sales office at that place.

Mr. Houston began his Long-Bell service with the Longville Lumber Company in 1913, working in the company's manufacturing plant at Longville, La. Some time later he went to the general sales office in Kansas City where he remain'ed until 1917. At that time he became a member of the sales force, and traveled the Arkansas territory with headquarters in Pine Bluff, Ark. He began his work in the St. Louis sales office in 1920.

C. I. Lane of Bonami, La., will succeed Mr. Houston in the office at St. Louis.

Construction work on the manufacturing plant of The Long-Bell Lumber Company at Longview is rapidly nearing completion and it will be in operation in July, according to a recent announcement.

SECRETARY WALLACE COMMENDS McNARYCLARKE FORESTRY POLICY BILL

Washington, Apr. 6.-Testifying befor'e the House Committee on Agriculturetoday, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said thatthe McNarv-Clarke National Forestrv Policy Bill, if enacted into la#as he recommended, would be the most constructive measure ever taken by the government to solve the national problem growing out of forest depletion.

Mr. Wallace said that in its broadest aspect the reforestation problem is that of providing better forests fire prevention and suppression and the establishment of a better system of cooperation betrveen the states and the Federal Gonettt-ettt. -The McNarv-Clarke bill inits present form is the most practical measure that could be framed at this time, and is'satisfactory to all who are interested in reforestaiion. One benefit bf tne national policy of reforestation would be the production of timber near the centers ot consumption, thuj reducing transportation costs which have beiome a very large faCtor in ultimate cost to the consumer. About 60d,000 acres of forest land now in military reservations could well be transferred to national forests' He also thought Congress should authorize the S-ecr'etary of AsricultutE, as proivided in the bill, to accept bequests and lifts of timbef lands. The attitude of private owners of co-mmercial timber in respect to forest protective measures and conservation was -praised by Mr. Wallace as a factor which will be helpful tb the Federal Government and the states in laying the foundation for a workabl-e policy' He favored the-ext-ension of the authority to purchase forest lands for additions to the national forests, and recommended that such purchases should not be subject to budgetary alteration each year.

..BILLY' KENDRICK ENJOYED HIMSELF

W. K. "Billy" Kendrick, the genial sales manager for the Valley Lumber Company, ai Fresno, in a letter t-he other dav to Flovd Dernier, -of the I-umbermen's Service Association, at Los Angeles, had the following to say about the recent Retaileri Convention.

"I want to tell you what a successful convention you bovs pulled off down in Los Angeles, and what a- very "i* t1*. we had. You surely did yourself proud ani deserve a great deal of credit. E-vell lumberman wtth *no* I haie talked has stated that he had a splendid time' All power to you !"

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