Forest Engineers to Hold National Office Force Present Ed. Culnan Meeting in California With Gift

The Society of American Foresters, composed of more than 1600 technically trained scientists and foresters, will hold its 32nd, annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif., December 12 to 16, followed by two days of field trips from Los Angeles into the mountains of Southern California, according to announcement by Dr. E. P. Meinecke, chairman of the convention committee.

Following the meetings in San Francisco, the delegates will go to Los Angeles where special trips have been arranged for December L7 and 18 into the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests.

The society headquarters for the convention will be the Hotel Bellevue, San Francisco. The annual banquet will be held on the evening of December 15. Interesting side trips will also be made by the delegates into the Yosemite and Redwood Highway region, Muir Woods, Monterey, Santa Cruz Mountains and to the Institute of Forest Genetics at Placerville, and California and Stanford Universities.

Oregon Manufacturer Visits San Francisco

E. D. Kingsley, well known Oregon lumberman, president of the West Oregon Lumber Co., of Linnton, Ore., recently spent a few days in San Francisco. Mr. Kingsley made his headquarters at the ofifices of Wendling-Nathan Co., California agents for his firm's products.

E. B. (Ed) Culnan, for the past six years district sales manager in the Los Angeles office of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., was presented with a handsome pipe by the office force when he recently resigned to become general manager of the Western Lumber Company at San Diego. Mr. Culnan was connected with the McCormick organization in Southern California for the past twentyone years, and goes back to San Diego, where he had his first assignment with the company when he joined the organization in 1911. He took over his new duties on December 5.

ATTEND NOTRE DAME-U.S.C. FOOTBALL GAME

Jack Halloran, Bennett-Halloran Lumber Co.; Ted O'Malley and Sam Wilcox, O'Malley T umber Co., and Bill Warriner, Riverside Cemerit Company, all of Phoenix, Arizona, were Los Angeles.visitors on December 10 when they took in the Notre Dame-IJniversity of Southern California annual football classic.

W. F. SHAW VISITS S. F.

W. F. Shaw, trade extension manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, recently spent a few days in San Francisco, arriving December 9 to consult with manufacturers there on the new plan for the National trade extension work which is to be considered by the directors at their meeting in Chicago, December 15.