lamented my departure, saying he had &quot;been just about 

 to give me a raise. 



In Washington, after being welcomed by Overton 

 Price, Associate Chief of the Forest Service, and 

 Clye Leavitt, assistant to Captain Adams, Chief of 

 the Office of Operation, I was given bulletins and 

 reports on California forests to study. I thus 

 became pretty familiar with the forest types and 

 trees of California so that when I landed there I 

 had no trouble identifying the principal trees and 

 shrubs . 



After about a month in Washington I was sent 

 to the Sierra (South) National Forest, now the 

 Sequoia, with headquarters at Hot Springs, a tiny 

 health resort about thirty miles east of Porterville, 

 With me were Prank Kellogg and David Rogers, lowly 

 technical assistants like me. 



The Forest Supervisor then was Y/illiam B. 

 Greeley, who eventually became Chief Forester. He 

 kept us on various jobs around headquarters for a 

 time -- helping make shakes for headquarters build 

 ings and, shamefully, moving a pit toilet out onto 

 piers above the stream, thus doing away v/ith the 

 pit! I guess we must have subscribed to the theory 



