West Coast Enlar$es Trade Extension

J. C. McCune and C. W. Zimmetrnran Assigned to California.

A material increase in service to lumber dealers, lumber users and specifiers and West Coast mills is represented.by a number of recent developments in the trade extension field work of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. These include the addition of one man to the field stafi and the assignment of two men from the Seattle office to work in California, with headquarters in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The new member of the Trade Extension and Field Service staff is Justin T. Kingdon, who for several years has been doing sales promoting work for the lvood preserving companies subscribing to the Association. His headquarters are in Denver, Colo. Mr. Kingdon will continue the work he has been doing, which has been principally with highway engineers in the Middle West in the interest of treated Douglas fir in highway bridges and for other forms of highwav construction.

Mr. Kingdon has had many years of tra.ining- and varied experienceln the engineering field, goitg into this work in I9O2. His experience includes work with railroads, irrigation projects, street construction, sew.er and water-works systems, highway construction, oil field. construction, and preservativJ treaiment of timber. During 1.918 and 1919 he was a Captain of Engineers in the U. S. Army

C. W. Zimmerman, formerly working in the interest of treated wood from the Seattle office, has been assigned to work in California, with headquarters in the San Francisco office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. He has been with the Association since 1928.

Mr. Zimmerman took work in civil engineering at Purdue lJniversity and the University of Washington, graduating from the latter school and later taking post-graduate work there. This work consisted of a special course in strength values and preservative treatment of construction materials, particularly wood.

He later entered the United States Forest Service and for ten years was an engineer in forest products in charge of the Seattle Timber Testing Laboradory, a branch of the Madison Laboratory, speciJlizing on strength tests ?1d--lhe preservative treatmint^of timber-. During the World War 'he -*s transferred to the United States Signal Corps where he served as an aeronautical mechanical engineer and worked on sPecifications for wood parts for American-made airplanes. During the entire Period while located at the UniversitY of Washington, he was on the faculty of the College of Forestry as a special lecturer in timber mechanics and timber physics.

Mr. Zimmerman is the author of a number of articles and publications on the strength, Preservative treatment, seasoning and durability of West Coast woods. He will devote Particular attention to the use of treated Douglas fir in highway and marine construction.

C. McCune, who has been with the Association and th6 old Bureau since 1927, is now doing general trade extension work in California. His headquarters are in the Los Angeles office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associat-ion. Mr. McCune's work supplements that of A. A. Kayser, Association grades .inspector, who went to Southern California at the time the Association opened its Los Angeles office several months ago.

Mr. McCune was in charge of the Association's exhibit at the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition held in Los Angeles lrom March 16 to 23, the exhibit consistitg-of a 136-foot Douglas fir oil derrick built from standard designs developed by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Aisociation and presented to the American Petroleum Institute as tentative standards.

Mr. McCune is contacting groups of dealers, individual dealers and lumber specifiers and users in the interest of proper and more extensive use of West Coast woods, and io promote a greater understanding, on the part of both deaiers and manufacturers, of their closely related problems.