Slasher Magazine Summary: Publication No. 234 - June 1967
The digitisation of the Slasher was undertaken by, and images courtesy of, the Forest Research Knowledge and Information Management staff based at both the Northern Research Station in Roslin, Scotland and Alice Holt in Surrey, where the original copies are currently located.
The content summary below was very kindly compiled by Diane Birkett, Bedfordshire. See PDF attachment link below the text to view the full document. A total of over 400 issues were produced between 1948 and the final issue in 2010.
Birthday Honours
Mr James Watson, Chief Forester, Dalbeattie Forest, South Scotland was appointed an M.B.E.
Mr George Robert Mackay, Ganger, Thurso, was awarded the B.E.M.
Miss Sylvia Crowe, Landscape Consultant with the Commission was appointed a C.B.E.
Board Mill Opened
Thames Board Mills at Workington, Britain's first integrated pulp and board mill, was officially opened this month by the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson. Attending the ceremony were Commission representatives Mr Leslie Jenkins, Chairman, and Mr John Dickson, Commissioner for Harvesting and Marketing.
Former Commissioners
Former Commissioner Mr Stanley Longhurst C.B.E., J.P. has been made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Epsom.
Former Commissioner Mr Bryan Latham C.B.E., M.M. has been made Chairman of the Timber Training Committee of the Training Board for the Furniture and Timber Industry.
Scottish Woodland Owners' Association
Mr Dennis Crawford has been appointed General Manager of Scottish Woodland Owners' Association. He began working as a Forest Worker in Allerston Forest, Yorkshire in 1943 and entered the Benmore School in 1944. He left the Commission in 1953 to join S.W.O.A. in South West Scotland.
Forests and Fungi
A report by Dr S. Batko on the favoured trees where forest fungi thrives nearby.
Forestry Films
Rank cinemas are showing a new film in the National Benzole "National Heritage" series called "The Changing Forest". The film was made with the co-operation of the Commission and shows the forest in all its changing moods.
The film "Greenwood Revival" was made in Grizedale Forest in the Lake District by the Council for Nature. It shows how the once naturally wooded fells have been re-afforested and describes some of the wildlife which inhabits the woods.
The G.P.O. has produced an instructional film on the growth of a tree from a seedling to telegraph pole. The film shows the processes through which the pole goes before it finally graces the public highway, complete with cross members, insulators and wires.
Inforesta Drama Group On Tour
The (HQ) Inforesta Drama Group went on their annual tour of forest villages and other centres. Performances of the comedy "Haul for the Shore" were given at Kielder, Betws-y-Coed, Llandulas, Llaneglwys and Parkend.
Attendances were good throughout; for example, the smallest forest village, Llaneglwys, with only 13 houses, provided an audience of nearly 100.
The Group stalwarts who undertook this marathon of some 1,200 miles were: Janet Meyer, Valerie Newell, Edith Nolan, Alan Chapman, Geoff Seal, Ken Winter, Ken Baldwin, Alan Meyer, Alan Eastty, Owen Newcombe and Dave Perkins.
Rare Pine
Information is sought on the Coulter Pine which produces huge cones.
Would It Be Wood?
A reader writes about his recent experiences identifying wood.
The "oak" beams in his local pub are actually fibre-glass.
The walls in his Wild West ranch style Knotty Pine Milk Bar are knotty pine veneer from trees in western Canada.
His wife has recently transformed their kitchen into a wooden shack. The wallpaper pattern is a copy of real wood veneer.
A well known firm of plastics makers have a display of their produce in their West End showroom labelled: Materials like this don’t grow on trees! But though the surface of their boards is plastic, the backing of plasticised laminated paper-board is made from wood pulp!
Rock 'N' Roll For Plants
An article in "La Yaaran", the journal of the Israel Forestry Association reports on the effect of different types of music on plants.