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National Forest Receipts Set New Record Lor Angeles County to Get 131000

reached an all-time high of $10,056448 in the fiscal year ending June 3O, 1943, according to Lyle F. Watts, chief of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This amount is three million dollars greater than last year's figures which broke all previous records. The gain reflects the increasing contribution to the war made by 160 national forests located in 40 states and Alaska and Puerto Rico, according to the Chief Forester.

Timber sales, which have been stepped up materiallv to meet the demand for wood for war uses, accounted for $7,537,ffi7 of the total. Next in importance were returns from grazing fees on 10 million head of livestock, mostly in the western states, producing meat, wool and leathet for the armed forces and civilian population.

Of the ten national forest regions, including Alaska, receipts from the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) amounting to $3,445,733, topped all others; the Southern national forest region was second, and the California Region (California and southwestern Nevada) third with a total of 9976,131.

The principal source of receipts from the California and Nevada national forests were: Timber sales, $582,D6; grazing, $205,148; special land use, $147,877; water power rentals, $31,566. The Plumas and Lassen National Forests held first and second place in timber sales business and accounted for $373,560 of the total received from this resource.

Since Federal property is not taxed, 25 per cent of all money received from each national forest is turned over in lieu of taxes to the State to be expended for the benefit of public schools and roads of the counties in which the forest is located. An additional 10 per cent is also used for road and trail building and upkeep on the forests, making in all a total of 35 per cent of the receipts returned directlv to benefit national-forest communities.

Lieut. Icck Butler Visits Scn Frcrncisco

Lieut. Jack S. Butler, U.S.N., spent a week recently with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth L. Butler, San Francisco. He was formerly associated with his father, who is Northern California representative of Dant & Russell, Inc.

Construction of 13,000 more homes for Los Angeles County war workers has been authorized by the National Housing Agency.

Added to 23,868 other homes already authorized or under construction, the new Los Angeles County dwellings will increase to 77,353 the number of units built here since Pearl Harbor.

Eugene Weston, Jr., regional representative of the NHA, announced the 13,000-unit program at a luncheon of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce construction industries executive committee. Its cost will exceed $62,000,000. 4O00 of the new structures will be built in San Fernando Valley, 4000 in the Santa Monica-Inglewood area, 2000 in the eastern metropolitan Los Angeles area, including Whittier, and 2000 in the Long Beach section. All these will be financed by private capital. In addition government funds will be used for 1000 units for the Roosevelt Naval Base on Terminal Island.

Luther H. Atkinson Resigns

Luther H. Atkinson, Saint Paul, iVlinn., vice-president in charge of marketing for the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, has resigned to become associated with the Elastic Stop Nut Corporation of America at lJnion, New Jersey, in the capacity of vice-president, and will assume full responsibility for the marketing of the pro-ducts manufactured by that organization at their lJnion, New Jersey, and Lincoln, Nebraska, plants.

Lieut. Allred Bell on Lecrve

Lieutenant Alfred D. Bell, Jr., U.S.N., was recently home on leave in San Francisco, and left to report at an East Coast port.

He is on leave of absence from Hammond Lumber Co., for which concern he was general sales manager.

Visited Pine Mills

Bob Leishman, with A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the pine mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Out Of These Woods

. . . GomG rhipr, plencr, erreult boatt, berraclc, horpitek and innumcreblc other mejor itcmr vital to all-oul war. Thir leavcr lcr for tou now but wc do what wc can.