PERSONAL 



R. S. Kellogg has resigned as secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association to become secretary-manager of a recently formed association among 

 the paper manufacturers, known as the News Print Service Bureau, with head- 

 quarters in New York. The purpose of the Bureau is to disseminate informa- 

 tion concerning the supply and demand for news-print paper throughout the 

 United States and Canada, as well as abroad. It will also collect data upon the 

 supply of all materials used in the manufacture of news print, the development of 

 manufacturing processes, the study of scientific methods of cost accounting, and 

 investigations into economic conditions affecting the industry. 



Clinton G. Smith has been promoted from Chief of Silviculture in District 4 

 to Forest Inspector in the Branch of Silviculture in the Washington Office of 

 the U. S. Forest Service. He is succeeded in District 4 by Chester B. Morse, 

 formerly supervisor of the Targhee National Forest. 



Fred J. Keuffner, of the Minnesota Forest Service, was killed at Washington, 

 D. C, in an automobile accident just prior to the departure for France of the 

 loth Engineers (Forest), of which regiment he was a member. His untimely 

 death has deeply touched the feelings of his many friends among the rangers 

 and other members of the Minnesota Forest Service. 



Forest Assistant J. R. Brownlie has recently been transferred to the Sioux 

 Forest, in eastern Montana, where he will assist W. L- Baldwin in working 

 up the data for a plan of timber regulation. The field and office work in con- 

 nection with this project will probably take 12 or 15 months. 



Dr. James R. Weir has recently returned from a two months' trip in the East. 

 He visited Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and St. Louis, 

 gathering data from universities and museums which will be of value in the 

 pathological work which he is carrying on. 



James H. Bonner, Acting Dean of the University of Montana Forest School, 

 has accepted a commission as captain in the 20th Engineers. He is the third 

 member of the faculty of this school to take up military duty. He is at Camp 

 Lee, Petersburg, Va. Prof. R. R. Fenska has been appointed Acting Dean of 

 the Forest School during the absence of Professor Bonner. 



Scott Leavitt, Supervisor of the Jefferson National Forest, at Great Falls, has 

 announced his intention to resign on March i. Mr. Leavitt will be engaged in 

 commercial work in Great Falls. 



C. L. Billings, of Detroit, has been detailed for three months to the Arkansas 

 Forest to take charge of a timber-survey party. 



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