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Philips-Hill Lumber Co. was recently organized in Los Angeles and will carry on a rail and cargo lumber business. Offices are at 714 W. Olympic Blvd. The officers are: D. R. Philips, president; D. A. Philips, vice-president; Ray Hill, secretary, and J. Mclachlan, treasurer.

The new concern is entirely independent of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company which will continue to operate as usual.

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National Forest Timber'Business is Good Veteran Sports Editor Will Talk to

San Francisco, September 3G-Fiscal Year 1941 was the best for national forest timber sales since 1931, Regional Forester S. B. Show has reported to the Department of Agriculture.

Value of the 339,857 thousand board feet of commercial timber cut was $689,900, or slightly in excess of $2 per thousand.

In addition, the 18 national forests of the California Region yielded $16,314 in miscellaneous forest products, mostly from Christmas trees cut in thinning operations.

The number of Forest Service timber sales to commercial operators in the Region during the' fiscal year was 1656.

"This volume of business," said Regional Forester S. B. Show, "is due largely to the industrial expansion program. Besides contributing to defense and economic welfare, timber sales exemplify the sound forestry practice of conserva-

Eart Bay Hoo-Hoo Club Oct. 20

A big attendance is predicted for the next dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, October 20. Dinner will be served at 6:39.

The feature of the meeting will be a talk by Harry B. Smith, of the San Francisco Chronicle, nationally known sports editor.

Bill Chatham of Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, will be chairman of the evening, and has lined up a high class vaudeville show which will include some top-notch Hawaiian musicians and dancers.

All lumbermen of the San Francisco Bay district are invited to be on hand for what will undoubtedly be an enjoyable evening.

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The regional forester added that "The Public also will be benefited by allotment of. 25 per cent of all national forest receipts to the State for distribution to county school and road funds, except in cases where Congress, upon the request of counties, authorizes the use of national forest income for Federal purchase of additional lands to control floods or serve other conservation purposes."

National Forests of California which showed the greatest timber-cut were the Plumas, Lassen and Modoc National Forests.

The annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Yard Distributors' Association was held in the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Ga., last month.

The following officers were re-elected: D. C. Maclea, Maclea Lumber Company, Baltimore, president; D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, first vice-president; Fred G. Christmann, Christmann Veneer & Lumber Co., St. Louis, second vice-president, and J. Jackson Kidd, Jr., Kidd & Buckingham Lumber Co., Baltimore, secretary-treasurer.