Ftrtonal -h{t*t

Rrrss Castell l-ras received his discharge from the Navy, arr<i returnecl to his old job with The California I)oor Co., Los Angeies. He expects to be calling on his old customers starting January 1.

Russ joinecl the Navv Seabees in March, 1942, and went overseas with a colorecl constrttction battalion. He was later appointed an instructor at Port Hueneme, Calif ., training center. Last August he u'as assigned to the regular Navr'. His rank u'as Chief Boatsu'ain's N{ate.

Carl W. "Drrkc" Watts, San Francisco. spent last ll es s.

lumber and plywood, Los Angeles on busiu'holesale u'eek in

Fre<1 Il. Iiopplin. ,fr., has returned to Consolidated Lumbcr Co., \\/ilmington, his emplover when he entered the scrvice almost fir,e years ago. T{e is a son of Fred E. Kopplin, Si. of. Cole Door & Plvu'ood Co., Los Angeles, arrd n'as a First Sergearrt in the infantrl'.

Jimmy Gautier, son of Eugene Gautier. ol\rller of llrrcinitas Lumber Co., Encinitas, and Bill N'teredith, Mr. Garrtier's son-in-larnu', are nor,r' oLtt of the Navv and are rvorking ir-r the yard. Both saw consiclerable service in the South Pacific.

Harold T. Hansen. .United Mill Beach, Calif., is back from a l0-dav tives irr Oregon.

'I'. Nt. (Tv) Cobb of T. M. cently made a hrrsiness trip Nevada.

Proclucts Co., Long vacation visiting rela-

Cobb Co., Los Angeles, reto Northern California and

Harry Trimble. Trimble Lumber has closed his vard, and is taking rrouncing his future plans.

Co., Palo Alto, Calit., a vacation before an-

L.H. E,ubank ancl W. E,. Luther ofL. H. Eubank & Son, wholesale millwork manufacturers, Ingle\r,ood, returned last rveek from calling on the lumber trade in the Sarr -foaquin Vallev, San Francisco Bay district, and as far north as Santa llosa. They returned by 'n'a1' of the Coast I{ighu'ay.

Florencc X'Iiller, claughter of F. G. Hanson of West Coast Screen Co., and her {ather's assistant, has returned fronr spending three n'eeks irr \Iexico Citv. She made the trip lrr' :rir lloth n'avs.

E,lmcr Wenholz of Williams-Wen]rolz I-un-rber Co., Bellfl,ru'er and Clearrvater, Calif., returned recentlv from spendirrg a vacation in \finnesota.

Civilian Production Administration

Washington, D.C., Dec. 3-For the continuance of its program to stimulate the production of logs, lumber arttl lumber products during the reconversion period, the Civil ian Production Administration has retained a riurnber of key personnel of the Lumber and l-umber Proclucts Division of the War Production Board, CPA announced today.

Mathias \\r. Niervenhous, formerly Deputy Director of WPB's Lumber Division, heads the reorganized group as chief of the ldmber branch of the Forest Products Division. Working immediately with him is John Foley, technical consultant.

'fhe former operations branch of the I-umber Divisiol, under \ rPB, is nor,r' called the production section and is headed by Harold Holman. This section is charged with assisting in breaking bottlenecks in the fields of tires, trucks, tra.ctors, manpower. wage ancl 1>rice problems, availability o{ surplus propertv, food :rncl stumpage rvherc these problems have an1' bearing on lumber productior.

Applications for priorities assistance, on form W Pll 541-a, under Direction 5 to Priorities Regulation 28, for capital equipment, maintenance, repair and operating supplies, and construction items needed by the lumber industry also are handled by the production section. The distribution phases of the neu' branch's activities are in chargc of Stanley H. Ferguson.

tVill Reforest Tillamook Burn

l'he initial rvork on reforesting of the Tillamook, Oregon, burn will be started December 1, according fo an announcement by State forester N. S. Rogers.

About a quarter million trvo-year-old Douglas fir and Port Orford cedar seedlings will be planted monthly, it is planned, and rvhen conditions permit further experimuets rvith direct seeding u,ithin the burn by hand and by airplane will be made.

The tree planting crews will be located at the old Reeher's CCC camp a few miles west of Timber, Oregon, and this part of the program will be carried out in the burned area r.rear Cochran, Mr. Rogers said.

Dos Pcrlos Yard Sold

Clinton I. Letlow, John have purchased the yard :rt l)os Palos. Calif.

Buys Plcning Mill

Carl Angle, and John L. Vaught of Lumber & Supply Company

Sawtelle Lumber Co., West Los Angeles, chased the C.I-. Edinger Planing Mill, -\venue.

C. L. Edinger, who is retiring, has been rnill for the past 40 years.

Ed Stoner, well known retail lumberman, the Sau'telle Lumber Co,