Carl Hamilton Heads N. L. M. A. California Ranks Third in Building Trade Extension Committee for July

E. L. Kurth Vice-Chairman

Washington, August 23.-Carl L. Hamilton, vice-president and secretary of General Timber Service, Inc., of the Weyerhaeuser interests, has accepted his appointment by the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as chairman of the Trade Extension Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

E. L. Kurth, vice-president and general manager of the Angelina County Lumber Company, Keltys, Texas., has accepted the post of vice-chairman of the same committee.

Mr. Hamilton has been for a number of years the advertising and merchandising executive of the Weyerhaeuser interests and has rendered splendid service for several years as a member of the trade extension and publicity committees of the National Lumbgr Manufacturers Association. He is deeply interested in lumber trade extension efforts and considers tlrat group effort is indispensable no matter how active individual manufacturers may be in their own promotion work.

Mr. Kurth, in addition to his connection with the Angelina County Lumber Company, is president of the Angelina Hardwood Company. He is director of Longleaf Yellow Pine, Inc., New Orleans, and is an outstanding citizen of Lufkin, Texas, which is the banking center for the Keltys region. He is interested in three or four smaller lumber companies and is an active member of the Texas Forestry Association. He is chairman of the trade extension committee of the Southern Pine Association, and thus brings current experience and understanding of association trade extension problems to his new position.