Texas Tree Farms System Inauguration, Texas Forest Conservation Day, Lufkin, Texas, October 24, 1944

Presentation of Tree Farm signs and certificates to representatives of industry and farms, furnished by the Texas Forest Service at A&M College.

Left to right:

W. E. White (Director of Texas A&M College Forest Service)

Tom Walton (farmer in Groveton)

Lieutenant Governor John Lee Smith

Hubert Harrison (General Manager for East Texas Chamber of Commerce)

Jim McClellan (National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Washington D. C.)

Sam Crawford (Texas Longleaf Lumber Company in Trinity)

N. D. Canterbury (Public Relations Coordinator of the Texas Mill Managers Association in Houston)

Albert E. Cudlipp Sr. (Secretary-Treasurer for the Texas Mill Managers Association in Lufkin)